Likewise, the 128GB V200 offers peak reads and writes of 300MB/s and 190MB/s while the 256GB can hit 300MB/s and 230MB/s, whereas the V100 in those capacities were quoted as having 250MB/s and 230MB/s. The newer drives are shown to have nearly double the performance in AS SSD Benchmark, but the real world results could be quite different as we've seen in the past.
The new lineup is backed by a three-year warranty and should launch this month as a standalone drive or in upgrade packages for desktops and notebooks with brackets and cloning software. Kingston is mum on pricing, but the company's press release claims that the V200 series is "up to 20 percent less in price than its predecessor." Hopefully that's reflected in retail pricing.New 28nm desktop graphics chips from AMD are set to arrive in January 2012, according to a report on Fudzilla. Originally expected to hit the market by the end of 2011, the site claims to have word from "multiple industry sources" that Tahiti won't materialize until the New Year, with the new series adopting the Radeon HD 7xxx branding.
Tahiti will be the direct successor to Cayman, currently powering AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series, and is expected to come in XT and PRO variants. Although specific models haven't been announced yet, if AMD sticks to their current GPU naming scheme then we can expect the new cards to debut as the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950.
Both will be single-GPU products, replacing existing Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 models, while a dual-GPU variant combining two Tahiti chips is expected to arrive later in 2012 as the Radeon HD 7990 (aka New Zealand). The latter is reportedly scheduled for a March release but it could slip into early Q2 2012.
The Radeon HD 7900 series will mark the arrival of AMD's new Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, which was first revealed in June and is supposed to create a GPU that performs well at both graphical and computing tasks.
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