AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series Coming January 9th
Tom’s Hardware has reported that a “reliable” source has informed someone that a dog said that the AMD Radeon HD 7900 series will be released to the public on January 9th, 2012. This sounds totally legitimate so we are going to pretend it is true.
The 7900 series is said to be the biggest jump in performance since the 2000 series cards. It also marks a move to Rambus XDR2 memory. Here are some specs:
- 2048 processing cores
- 384-bit memory interface
- 240-264 GB/s
- 4.5 billion transistors
- 28 nm process
- Estimates price: $700
Looking at the specs, it would seem and AMD GPU will still be king, just a different member of the AMD GPU family. The card will also introduce a new version of Eyefinity (3D). This will allow you to create a large 3D display that is shared across monitors.
RDRAM
15 Dec 2011, 11:50 pm
The only problem I see with this post is the price: I have not found any other site that has that number
The range consistent of most sites is any where from $400-$499 not even near $700. I don’t think AMD would make sales if they released a GPU that cost that much, which so much price/performance that is already out there.
16 Dec 2011, 12:01 am
that would be for their high end or enthusiest card (ie. 7970 or 7990)
16 Dec 2011, 12:26 am
Why is it returning to DRDRAM? is it faster/more efficent? Also, why are they returning to it. What went wrong the first time? Haha sorry I’m at this kind of thing.
16 Dec 2011, 1:15 am
maybe the 7990 because they the 400-500 is for the 7970
16 Dec 2011, 1:52 am
Pretty sure the 7000 series is going to be using XDR2 Vram, which is much quicker than GDDR5.
16 Dec 2011, 1:58 am
i went off what littleviking said
16 Dec 2011, 2:51 am
PAPER-LAUNCH * January 9th 2012. Relesase day – January 22th 2012.
False rumours. High-end (HD 79XX) will come with HBM RAM (by Hynix / Hyundai), and not XDR2. HBM uses less power, but not as efficient. Still better than GDDR5, which Nvidia will continue using…
16 Dec 2011, 3:03 am
Yay that’s the day my exams start!
16 Dec 2011, 3:56 am
How huge will amd make their cards this time?
16 Dec 2011, 6:11 am
Same size as HD6000. ~1.75x performance – YES PLEASE !
16 Dec 2011, 6:21 am
In other words still overly huge for the performance
16 Dec 2011, 9:46 am
My fault about the DRDRAM… It’s Rambus… XDR2.
16 Dec 2011, 11:12 am
AMD seems to be ahead of Nvidia at the moment.
16 Dec 2011, 11:19 am
This is how it’s been for the past two generations though. AMD/ATI puts out a good, single gpu card that is faster than any single gpu Nvidia card and the Nvidia suxorz comments start rolling in. Then a couple months later, Nvidia spanks the pants off the AMD/ATI card with their new “world’s fastest” single gpu card…and then you get the AMD/ATI suxorz comments rolling in.
It’s basically one vicious circle of suxorz.
16 Dec 2011, 12:12 pm
Noooo, we are not going to see XDR2 on our GPUs, yet… HBM RAM, yes please.
Proof: http://sites.amd.com/us/Documents/TFE2011_006HYN.pdf
Now don’t talk anymore about AMD + Rambus ! Makes me sad, just thinking about it
16 Dec 2011, 12:22 pm
Not really. I think AMD have been ahead of NVIDIA since the HD 5000 series. Sure, Nvidia sometimes have a faster card… but AMD has more power efficient, cooler, and perhaps a little cheaper cards. And who cares about PhysX/CUDA anymore?
16 Dec 2011, 1:16 pm
yea,openCL is putting cuda / physx to shame….
16 Dec 2011, 2:43 pm
YES! too bad I’m in a financial shit-hole though :/
16 Dec 2011, 5:55 pm
The timing is perfect because once they come out I will have a new job, ahh yeah
20 Dec 2011, 12:47 am
Ouch, the price… *explodes*