-=Guess the price of the New Radeon 7000 GPUS=-

[tomskent]

Lets see who gets the closest to the MSRP of the new high end 7000 series AMD cards (as well as the new price of the 6970)

my guess so far...

Radeon HD 7970 = $460
Radeon HD 7950 = $360
Radeon HD 6970 = $270

Here are the stats as of now, to help you come up with your guess:
(looks like the format is screwed up below by the forum, just go to this link and look at the stats)

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-HD-7900-XDR2-Rambus-Memory,13408.html


Graphics card---Radeon HD 7970------ Radeon HD 7950------Radeon HD 6970
Node------------TSMC 28nm HP--------TSMC 28nm HP--------TSMC 40nm
Architecture----GCN--------------------GCN---------------------VLIW4
GPU-------------Tahiti XT----------------Tahiti Pro---------------Cayman XT
Radeon cluster--32---------------------30-----------------------24
Radeon cores---2048-------------------1920--------------------1536
GPU frequency--1000 MHz-------------900 MHz----------------880 MHz
Texture units----128--------------------120---------------------96
ROPs-------------64----------------------64----------------------32
Graphics Mem---2GB GDDR5-----------2GB GDDR5-----------2GB GDDR5
Mem frequency--8000 MHz-------------7200 MHz--------------5500 MHz
Mem interface---256 bit-----------------256 bit-----------------256 bit
Mem bandwidth-256 GB/s---------------230 GB/s--------------176 GB/s
Power consumption190-watt------------150 watt---------------250 watt

 

[AbdullahG]

HD 7990: $700 to $1000 (the HD 6990 was at some places $1000 at launch)
HD 7970: $350 or $370
HD 7950: $300
HD 6990: $550 to $600
HD 6970: $250 to $270
HD 6950: $200

I'm basing these off launch prices for the HD 6000 series. Probably off by some margin though.

 

[amuffin]

Hehe, you never know

 

[swifty_morgan]

$1.98

 

[gnomio]

Here we go again Amd with their cores. Radeon cores lol
As shaders, always the Stream Processors are advertised, when in reality Stream Processors are NOT independant from each other, they imply data independency in shader binary to operate.

What I like to know if they increased the on-chip storage. That's one of the major things software designers is calling for. But by the look of the bandwidth posted up there doesn't look like it because with no cache hierarchy you need huge amounts of bandwidth

 

[welshmousepk]

What I like to know if they increased the on-chip storage. That's one of the major things software designers is calling for. h

out of curiosity, which software designers have said this?

I can certainly see how helpful it would be, but it would be very expensive to implement. I can't see it being worth the cost. more bandwidth for the vRAM, and faster vRAM at that, would seem like a much cheaper alternative that would yield similar results.

Anyway, I'm gonna say:

Radeon HD 7970 = $520
Radeon HD 7950 = $400
Radeon HD 6970 = $320

I think they are really gonna take advantage with launch prices on these.

 

[need4speeds]

2048@1000mhz. My guess is that is about on par with a 580 o/c, 560ti sli, 6950 crossfire. Currently those setups are around $440 to $500. Of course amd will try and get market value for the hd-7970. My guess would be a $389.99 price.

 

[gnomio]

out of curiosity, which software designers have said this?

I can certainly see how helpful it would be, but it would be very expensive to implement. I can't see it being worth the cost. more bandwidth for the vRAM, and faster vRAM at that, would seem like a much cheaper alternative that would yield similar results.

Anyway, I'm gonna say:

Radeon HD 7970 = $520
Radeon HD 7950 = $400
Radeon HD 6970 = $320

I think they are really gonna take advantage with launch prices on these.

Gpus are designed for throughput. On-chip storage I don't mean in extra ram I mean like storage for fragments and data that's going to be re-used. At the ,moment they use about 64k for it. Biggest problem area for designers is to bypass bandwidth constraints as a high end gpu needs 1Tb bandwidth in reality.

 

[farrengottu]

i only care about the 7970 and the 7950. so ill price them... kinda
im fairly confident they will be under $600, unless the yields are under 50%, and they easily could be, its a new architecture and a new process.
since the 7950 is so close in specs i suspect it will also be very close in price. about $60 maybe $70 cheaper than the 7970 is what i expect.

 

[tomskent]

i only care about the 7970 and the 7950. so ill price them... kinda
im fairly confident they will be under $600, unless the yields are under 50%, and they easily could be, its a new architecture and a new process.
since the 7950 is so close in specs i suspect it will also be very close in price. about $60 maybe $70 cheaper than the 7970 is what i expect.

There have been some pretty good educated guesses so far, and then some not so much...

like "under $600"...

lol

 

[tomskent]

Anyone else have an opinion?

 

[AbdullahG]

Well, after thinking about it, I think a 7970 will be at least $400, but probably close to $500. A 7950 might be $350 to $400. Considering the GPUs will be using Rambus VRAM, they aren't going to be cheap.

 

[Kari]

most likely the new cards will launch very close where their counterparts in hd6000 series are priced at today. +-$30 at most. The current gen wont drop in price during/after the launch... (silly but that's how it works, they stop making them-> price stagnates or goes up...)

 

[gnomio]

Looks like it will only be released next year
http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-28nm-radeon-hd-7000-gpus-mass-production/

 

[farrengottu]

There have been some pretty good educated guesses so far, and then some not so much...

like "under $600"...

lol

hey most guesses are just too low. i don't think the 7970 wont be under $400. amd wants the profits from having the best video card, while they have it. but i don't think they will pass $600. as in i bet it will be around $499 msrp and of course retailers will pass it by $20 or so the first few weeks to make extra money themselves. come march when nvidia releases their new line up the prices will go down a lot.
now amd does have Rory Read as the new CEO and from his history at lenovo he likes very competitive pricing. so if he does what he has done in the past it could be $360 or so. but he's still new and catching up on how the company is doing. he might not influence that decision too much.

 

[tomskent]

So the speculated launch prices of the 7970 and 7950 have been released several days ago. Ive seen two different price sets for each card from 4 different sites.


3 websites report the cards will be at:

7970 = $549
7950 = $449

1 website reports the cards will be at:

7970 = $449
7950 = $349

 

[farrengottu]

the site i trust the most said it is for now
7970 = $549
7950 = $449
but they also said its could easily change between now and launch.
if its really gonna be $549 for the 7970, im getting the 7950. its like 95% the same performance (on paper).
ill just save, wait and see

 

[toneekay]

Here's my guesses on the lowest prices.

6950 = $229.99
6970 = $319.99
6990 = $549.99
7950 = $359.99
7970 = $449.99
7990 = $749.99

Does this mean you'll be buying the winner one of 7900 series cards if we win?