AMD might be releasing the HD 7790 graphics card which may be based on the Bonaire XT GPU.
As stated in our earlier clarification of AMD's 2013 Radeon plans, AMD will be releasing the HD 7790 graphics card in April to bridge the gap between the HD 7770 and HD 7850. Fudzilla further stated that the card would surprisingly be based on the Bonaire XT GPU and therefore be the first AMD GPU to be based on the GCN 2.0 architecture that is expected to power the upcoming HD 8000 series of graphics cards.
Fudzilla also indicated that the HD 7790 will be a very impressive performer, so much so that AMD has apparently asked manufacturers not to release overclocked versions of the card for fear of it surpassing and consequently crippling sales of the HD 7850. This implies that the Bonaire XT GPU holds a lot of potential for overclocking, something that we are always exited to see.
The HD 7790 isn't expected to make an appearance at CeBIT next month, but the company does plan to show off some of its other products to keep customers and shareholders happy.
Meanwhile the 7850 is priced at 220eur and the 7770 at 160eur here. This would be prefect for filling the gap at ~190eur.
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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
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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
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!
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.
Meanwhile the 7850 is priced at 220eur and the 7770 at 160eur here. This would be prefect for filling the gap at ~190eur.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GCN2.0 will be present in HD8xxx series cards, expected to be released in Q4 2013.
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.