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.
Header Cell - Column 0 | Radeon HD 7970 | Radeon HD 8970 XT |
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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.
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ojas True, spec sheet is reasonable. Not sure they'd call it the 8970 XT though, just the 8970.Reply -
outlw6669 Not really that much of an improvement if these specs are accurate.Reply
Hard to believe they would spend all the time engineering and validating a new chip for such a minor bump. -
catswold I am surprised at the level of improvement over the 7970--only about a 14% increase in processors--seems pretty modest to me. Saving the big guns for the 9XXX series?Reply -
TheCapulet There could be IPC improvements that we can't see on paper. But realistically, this is all speculation anyways at this point. Lets not get excited over something that was spewed out of 4chan.Reply