New AMD Graphics Card - A new Hope for Alienware M18x users?

So since AMD will most likely finally release new mobile video cards this year,
what are the chances of those cards working in previous Alienware M18 R4 machines?
Maybe this could bring new life to our Alienware community, would be awesome if those new cards would work in windows 7, and if they were cheaper than the 980m. Well one can hope - right? :d

 

If they won't be based on Fiji and contain HBM2 then I don't give a damn. You can't now know if they will work. You will know when someone will bought it and install. IMHO there will be only Clevo cards left because Alienware will solder them to MoBo.

 

We've heard zero new or rumors about any new upcoming cards. The only hope we got in 2015 was the full Tonga core E8950 MXM, but that was confirmed by an AMD rep to me that it will not be for laptops, embedded systems only. Since then the AMD scene has been dead quiet on the matter. I used to purchase AMD cards at every step that was logically possible (6990M > 580M, 7970M > 680m IMHO) but they slipped in 2013 and they haven't had anything to show anything in the mobile space for a very long time now. Nvidia almost has a monopoly on the entire mobile graphics market.

 

Actually we do have some news:

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-01/amd-polaris-next-gen-radeon-14-nm-finfet/

In English:


As you can see the new gen radeon cards are called Polaris and will be produced in a 14nm process.

 

There has been NOTHING announced in the mobile space. While the architecture sounds nice, there has been no mention of any mobile cards, let alone a mobile MXM card.

 

Luckily you are wrong. Listen carefully to the video. And you will hear him say "for desktops, for NOTEBOOKS, for VR."

 

Until I hear the term "MXM", I'm not interested. They could be talking about low end crap APU graphics with Zen, not dedicated raw performance cards.

 

Maybe, but I still keep my fingers crossed for an alternative to the pricey and buggy 980m.

Cheers

 

You and me both, friend. I would love to ditch all these nGreedia cards.

 

The Jolly Green Giant needs to be spanked. It's been way too long since NGREEDIA's butt got kicked, but team red is too lame to do it. So, all we have is garbage. Weak garbage from AMD and buggy garbage from the nvidiots.

If you don't know about the Jolly Green Giant I sometimes refer to and wonder where I got that silly name for NVIDIA, watch the video below.

 

Some days I wish Matrox was still in the Consumer/Gaming GPU market to give another option ( I remember the good days when there were lots of GPU manufacturers )