Rumor: AMD Baking Radeon HD 7790 on Bonaire XT GPU

[N.Broekhuijsen]

AMD might be releasing the HD 7790 graphics card which may be based on the Bonaire XT GPU.

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[Soda-88]

What are they going to do, ship them without fans to prevent users from overclocking?

 

[stickmansam]

Hmm it makes sense to fill in this gap as from 7970 down to 7750 every card is separated by 256 shaders

2048-1782-1536-1280-1024-640-512
The original 7770 should have come out around 768 shaders like that engineering sample a while back

Good thing my 7850 is a great overclocker too

 

[Novuake]

AMD what are you doing???

 

[icemunk]

Nice, hopefully they price it just right too. $130 would be reasonable I think.

 

[Memnarchon]

At last, a competitor for GTX650ti. More competition for them (AMD n Nvidia), less prices for us .

 

[abbadon_34]

Sorta of odd, why release it if they have these concerns, especially in the midrange segment? Eh, rumors rumors.

 

[tomfreak]

a 192bit 24ROP Pitcrain sold as 7830 would do the trick to pit against the lousy 650ti. Why would they want to bother a new chip?

Worst of all they would gladly rename/rebrand OEM into HD 8000, but putting a GCN 2.0 as HD7000? I say this is some rumor as fake!

 

[faster23rd]

Ha! I was vouching for this in a thread a while back. Anyway, I hope AMD executes this well enough.

 

[revo_ever_guys]

Why AMD just release this chip as HD8000 series? Are the HD7k series too good to ditch already???

 

[excella1221]

^ In a sense, yes?

On-topic: I hope this is true, the performance gap between the 7770 and the 7850 is quite relative.

EDIT: I think people are misunderstanding the OC thing - From how I understand it, AMD is just asking manufacturers not to make any factory OC'd 7790; consumers are still of course entitled to OC their cards as much as they want.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Would the card manufacturer listen to AMD's request? Has this happened before?

 

[ddpruitt]

I like the fact that AMD is sticking with the 7000s for now. It seems like AMD's decision to leave holes is a smart one, now they're filling out the line with some intriguing cards.

 

[spentshells]

This card is pointless, 7850 1GB is a monster for 160 dollars, 650ti doesn't touch it, this card will need to be 139 in order to sell

 

[Bloob]

[citation][nom]spentshells[/nom]This card is pointless, 7850 1GB is a monster for 160 dollars, 650ti doesn't touch it, this card will need to be 139 in order to sell[/citation]
Meanwhile the 7850 is priced at 220eur and the 7770 at 160eur here. This would be prefect for filling the gap at ~190eur.

 

[InvalidError]

[citation][nom]revo_ever_guys[/nom]Why AMD just release this chip as HD8000 series? Are the HD7k series too good to ditch already???[/citation]
They probably do not want to make the HD78xx/79xx sound obsolete 6+ months ahead of time by releasing a HD8770. It will likely get re-released as such once the HD8970 comes out.

 

[Cataclysm_ZA]

Sounds like AMD might be pulling another 40nm HD4770 on the market to satiate them. IMO, this will be a good move assuming the "HD7790" can overclock and overtake a HD7850. That would be quite something.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]revo_ever_guys[/nom]Why AMD just release this chip as HD8000 series? Are the HD7k series too good to ditch already???[/citation]

because they dont want the first 8000 card to be a low end card. if this is an 8k it will get rebranded up to an 8k car later on.

 

[beerpapasmurph]

[citation][nom]Cataclysm_ZA[/nom]Sounds like AMD might be pulling another 40nm HD4770 on the market to satiate them. IMO, this will be a good move assuming the "HD7790" can overclock and overtake a HD7850. That would be quite something.[/citation]

You literally took the words out of my mouth. This is exactly what ATI(AMD) did with the 4770. Well flipped, the HD 4770 was a die shrink, while the 7790 sounds like its suppose to be GCN 2.0 as stated in the article.

[citation][nom]Soda-88[/nom]What are they going to do, ship them without fans to prevent users from overclocking?[/citation]

You didnt read the article well enough, they do not want "MANUFACTURERS" to overclock the card out of the box for fear of eating into 7850 sells. This might be an interesting little chip for XFIRE.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

The Bonaire Xt is not GCN2.0 . It is basically a bugfix silicon. 5% better silicon, 10% drivers, 10% clock speeds.

GCN2.0 will be present in HD8xxx series cards, expected to be released in Q4 2013.

 

[esrever]

[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]The Bonaire Xt is not GCN2.0 . It is basically a bugfix silicon. 5% better silicon, 10% drivers, 10% clock speeds.GCN2.0 will be present in HD8xxx series cards, expected to be released in Q4 2013.[/citation]
thats what gnc 2.0 will be. Bonaire is releasing now because AMD doesn't want a full line refresh until it can actually get the next gen APUs out as to create less market fragmentation. GCN 2.0 is likely already done at AMD and they can put it into production at any time. Maybe the high end chips are still being fixed up but they will be able to produce them when they feel like. Only thing about GCN 2.0 is its unlikely to be a huge performance improvement at the high end.

 

[hannibal]

Wasn't gcn 2.0 more suitable for unified cpu/gpu computing, so it is not so big improvement in GPU part, but it will better blend with CPU. So it is wise to release first those models that are suitable to run in tandem with upcoming APU prosessors! Allso if the GPU performance does not improve a lot it makes more sense to wait for next production node reduction for highend cards so they can get two things together. It is easy to predict that this first gcn2.0 based gpu will be released as an 8000 or 9000 series with die shrink soon after next new highend cards

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]Soda-88[/nom]What are they going to do, ship them without fans to prevent users from overclocking?[/citation]

i sure hope so, that's an easy fix

but as usually is the case they will find a way to gut it on the memory bus and speed of the memory chips like only 800MHZ speed ram or something cost effective as opposed to a BIOS crippling of shaders, speeds and what not.

 

[spentshells]

[citation][nom]Bloob[/nom]Meanwhile the 7850 is priced at 220eur and the 7770 at 160eur here. This would be prefect for filling the gap at ~190eur.[/citation]

WOW that is very expensive I was not aware that the price was nearly double where you are. It seems outrageous.

 

[spentshells]

[citation][nom]Bloob[/nom]Meanwhile the 7850 is priced at 220eur and the 7770 at 160eur here. This would be prefect for filling the gap at ~190eur.[/citation]


Also where I am the 650ti is around 10-12 dollars less than a 7850 1gb
Again sorry about your luck with that pricing.