Supposed AMD Radeon HD 8970 XT Photographed
The Radeon HD 8970 will reportedly feature a 28 nm Curacao XT architecture, a base clock of 1000 MHz and a cut down version of the Radeon HD 7990’s cooler.
A photograph and specification sheet of the unannounced AMD Radeon HD 8970 XT has surfaced on the one and only 4Chan (thus, everything below should be taken with a veritable bucket of salt). The card appears to feature a cut-down version of the Radeon HD 7990’s cooling design that curiously seems to have left between 1/4 and 1/3 uncovered by the two cooling fans.
Also evident from the photo are two CrossFireX goldfingers that will presumably allow up to four HD 8970 XTs to be connected simultaneously and an 8-pin and 6-pin power connector.
Radeon HD 7970 | Radeon HD 8970 XT | |
|---|---|---|
Core Architecture | 28 nm Tahiti XT | 28 nm Curacao XT |
Base Clock | 925 MHz | 1000 MHz |
Stream Processors | 2048 | 2304 |
Raster Operators | 32 | 48 |
TMUS | 128 | 144 |
Memory | 3 GB GDDR5 | 3 GB GDDR5 |
Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit |
TDP | 210 W | 250 W |
Launch Price | $549 | $549 |
Though the photograph doesn’t show any obvious signs of fabrication and the specification sheet is certainly reasonable, 4Chan isn’t exactly the most reputable source. We will be waiting for an official confirmation before we give it further consideration.
Hard to believe they would spend all the time engineering and validating a new chip for such a minor bump.
Tom's is reporting on rumors from 4chan!
May as well just guess!!
If this is true, 12.5% more SP's, TMU's, 50% more ROP's and a higher clock won't be competitive? Won't these increase performance by ~25-35%, which would make it a direct competitor....?
Salt and pepper from here...
5870 http://www.google.ca/search?q=hd+5870&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fq64UeLhE5Lb4AO6zICIBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=640
HD7950 http://www.google.ca/search?biw=1024&bih=640&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=hd+7950&oq=hd+7950&gs_l=img.3..0l10.73777.76772.0.77764.8.7.0.1.1.0.180.696.0j5.5.0...0.0...1c.1.17.img.SPSL--W1h34
It looks like a cooler laid on top of a card that it doesn't fit on. lol
My guess about XT thing in name is that it's due to the fact that HD 8xxx was announced to be re-badgeing of 7xxx series, thus 8970 sans-XT will be old 7970.