Report: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series to Launch January 9
Information coming out of the Turkish website DonanimHaber, shows the release date for AMD's new Radeon HD 7900 series is set for January 9, 2012.
Information coming from a "reliable" source has informed DonanimHaber that AMD is expected to release its new Radeon HD 7900 series on January 9, 2010. This is a day ahead of the typical Tuesday release, along with one day before the official start of CES 2012. It is expected to have two cards released, the HD 7970 and HD 7950, that are based on AMD's new 28 nm "Tahiti" platform. Early specifications for "Tahiti" (based on bits and pieces of information from various sources) are listed below. These specifications match closely to what was originally reported in September for the HD 7970 and HD 7950.
- 4.50 billion transistors, die-area of 380 mm², built on TSMC 28 nm process
- Advanced GCN 1D architecture
- 2048 1D processing cores
- 128 TMUs, 48 ROPs
- 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, memory clock slightly below 1 GHz, target bandwidth of 240~264 GB/s
In addition, it is reported the new HD 7900 series will introduce Eyefinity 3D. This will add support for 3D-optimized (120 Hz) displays, and allow users to create large stereoscopic 3D display heads using multiple 3D displays. All of this looks to be coming with a hefty price though, as early European pricing for the HD 7970 is in the range of 539-549 Euro (or $699.03 to $712.00)
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can't wait!
It will be nice to see some new cards on the market. Although $700 sounds kind of a high price for an amd card.
Yikes.
In all honesty, I don't see even a Crossfire configuration capable of pushing 5760x1080 @ 120Hz.
Even with the new cards.
Huh, I thought the mainstream GPUs were coming first and the high end cards coming later with rambus memory?
Well, I certainly won't be buying a $700 card in January..
After reading the first part again I noticed that they put 2010 instead of 2012. XD
January 9, 2010. Ooh yeah back to the future
. I would like to backorder one immediately.
384 bit wide memory nice! that's gonna make difference alone
Yeah bring on the new gen cards, I will finally be able to upgrade my 8800gt when they bring curret gen card prices down.
lol, 9 January 2010?? typo much
Ooh yeah back to the future.
Future to the back.
Come on people! Proof read the damn article!
3D for multiple displays? Won't the bezel size affect the 3D illusion? I've been asking myself this ever since Nvidia introduced it.
Also, where mah HD 7670 at? Because it looks like no joy this Christmas...
$700?
These things better perform as much as they cost especially for single GPU cards.
Already!
Im interested to see how these new cards will handle some extreme tessellation.
I wonder what he price difference between January 9, 2010 and January 9, 2012 is.
Already waiting for 7770, can't wait to upgrade my 4650 ddr2....
I'll never buy a $700 graphics card. 1920 x 1080 resolution is enough for me, and a GTX 560 Ti/ATI 6950 1Gb will hit 40 - 60 fps most of the time.
this is another shoot in foot
i cant wait for nvidia the 6970 is really boring.
Europe gets screwed with prices once again.
Nvidia and amd needs to make the next gen card PCI-E 3.0 ONLY. if you arent ready for it then you can get the current gen. PCI-e 3 if fully utilized can make a huge difference, this can improve graphics, think of the desginers who has to create huge art work, this can make it so much faster.
Looking past the 7k & 600 series, I wonder what convoluted naming will come out of both camps for their next-next generation.
Nvidia and amd needs to make the next gen card PCI-E 3.0 ONLY. if you arent ready for it then you can get the current gen. PCI-e 3 if fully utilized can make a huge difference, this can improve graphics, think of the desginers who has to create huge art work, this can make it so much faster.
You're a bit hasty there, altough I agree, to some extent. Almost nobody has a pci-e 3.0 ready motherboard, so, who would buy those cards?
Make it PCI-e 2.0+ only, and they can sell the cards to a lot more people, and maybe get rid of one of those power plugs (since pci-e 2.0 offers up to 150w instead of 75w).
Forgot to mention: with this price tag, performance better be stellar, or else nobody would buy them anyways.
Europe gets screwed with prices once again.
Yup ... as always this probably will be false: "early European pricing for the HD 7970 is in the range of 539-549 Euro (or $699.03 to $712.00)"
I've never seen this to happen, it will probably be like: 539-549 $ and 699 - 712 euros. There's something dubious about the conversion, i can't help but wonder what kind of reality distortion field is out there that comes up with these prices.
Not even considering this, but anxious to see what's coming to sub €200 category, preferably at around 100W.
Looking forward to replacing my current 4870, but rather with something that's more powerful *and* draws less power.
Nvidia and amd needs to make the next gen card PCI-E 3.0 ONLY. if you arent ready for it then you can get the current gen. PCI-e 3 if fully utilized can make a huge difference, this can improve graphics, think of the desginers who has to create huge art work, this can make it so much faster.
We're not even coming close to saturating PCI-e 2.1. When you can run a 6990 on an x8 with virtually no bottlenecking I strongly doubt we're going to see hardware in the next few years that need 4x that bandwidth.
We're not even coming close to saturating PCI-e 2.1. When you can run a 6990 on an x8 with virtually no bottlenecking I strongly doubt we're going to see hardware in the next few years that need 4x that bandwidth.
Maybe not 1 card, but what about 3 of those or 4? just saying, not that i own more then 1 but you are right.
7970 Spec should as said
2048 core @ 1GHz,
384bit @ 48ROPs, 128TMU @ 3GB RAM.
7950 spec should be
1920 core @ 900MHz
320bit @ 40ROPs, 120TMU, @ 2.5GB RAM
7970 Spec should as said 2048 core @ 1GHz,384bit @ 48ROPs, 128TMU @ 3GB RAM.7950 spec should be 1920 core @ 900MHz320bit @ 40ROPs, 120TMU, @ 2.5GB RAM
Dont forget that it uses XDR2 DDR Ram
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!