Release Dates - Radeon HD 7000 Series

freak2002 · 15 Nov 2011 at 07:58

nitr0uk said:
Looking forward to these. Due for an upgrade from my 4870

Same

Looking at the 7870 for Xmas. (If they are out ofc)

Freddie1980 · 15 Nov 2011 at 08:32

Troezar said:
That Softpedia story could have been written by Nvidia the way it reads. Quoting a forum post as a source that was itself reporting a Chinese rumour (whisper?) is ridiculous. I would have been embarrassed to poor my name to that.

If it gets you a couple of K's from advertising revenue then I could live with the embarrassment.

glenimp617 · 15 Nov 2011 at 08:40

basically what we are saying is that nobody has a clue how good they will be, how expensive or when they are being released

eddiew · 15 Nov 2011 at 08:56

Purgatory said:
"In addition, both Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon HD 7970 reference designs will come with an improved cooling system that replaces the traditional vapor chamber technology used for high-end parts with a liquid chamber."

Why would you need that with a 22nm production...? Last I read it was a power draw reduction vs all current cards :confused:

Owenb · 15 Nov 2011 at 09:26

eddiew said:
Why would you need that with a 22nm production...? Last I read it was a power draw reduction vs all current cards

Could enable them to run the fans are lower speeds.

Truth is nobody knows, especially fudzilla!, when the 7000 series will be released- probably not even AMD. They seem to have a target launch, or at least a paper launch, for the middle of December but that can change very quickly.

idiocious · 15 Nov 2011 at 09:43

glen8 said:
basically what we are saying is that nobody has a clue how good they will be, how expensive or when they are being released

Just about sums it up!

~>Dg<~ · 15 Nov 2011 at 11:05

just look at previous releases and you can often judge how good the next gen will be.

i say about ten percent better at most

'Wes · 15 Nov 2011 at 11:38

I'll be keeping my 5870.

Lightnix · 15 Nov 2011 at 11:56

According to a post on the XtremeSystems forum

Hrmm...

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2011 at 11:58

~>Dg<~ said:
just look at previous releases and you can often judge how good the next gen will be.

i say about ten percent better at most

The 4870 to the 5870 was more than 10% jump.

Ezyryder · 15 Nov 2011 at 12:59

It will be a 30% to 50% jump just by going on the specs.

Don't be fooled by the 5xxx to 6xxx series jump. That one was the anomaly.

Marine-RX179 · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:05

opethdisciple said:
The 4870 to the 5870 was more than 10% jump.

That is more like 70~90% jump

One can only hope that miracle happens again, though I doubt it.

AndyT · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:16

Purgatory said:
The reporting of both sites is a joke and they need to learn how to spell and correct basic grammer mistakes.

Boom! Love it.

rolypolyman · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:28

'grammer' oops.

Troezar · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:49

~>Dg<~ said:
just look at previous releases and you can often judge how good the next gen will be.

i say about ten percent better at most

Waits for DM to appear and write an essay on how wrong you are

You are btw, drop to 28nm and new architecture, 10% is comedy gold

TheRealDeal · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:52

Ezyryder said:
It will be a 30% to 50% jump just by going on the specs.

Don't be fooled by the 5xxx to 6xxx series jump. That one was the anomaly.

How is it an anomaly?

The 3870 to the 4870 and before this these kinds of jumps in performance were common from both amd and nvidia.

The only reason that the 6 series was not a big step up from the 5 is that there was no node drop on the process. The 6 series was designed for 32nm which got cancelled.

From the leaked specs theres not much we can take from them as its brand new architecture so who knows how this will perform.

gwobbles · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:58

7950/ 7970 xfire please!

bru · 15 Nov 2011 at 15:05

glen8 said:
basically what we are saying is that nobody has a clue how good they will be, how expensive or when they are being released

+1

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2011 at 15:25

'Wes said:
I'll be keeping my 5870.

5870 is still plenty of grunt.

My pc in sig, is more or less maxing out Skyrim and BF3 at 1920x1200.

(Maxed except for FXAA in skyrim and MSAA in BF3)

Not bad for a 5 year old cpu and a 2 year old gpu.

Ezyryder · 15 Nov 2011 at 16:01

TheRealDeal said:
How is it an anomaly?

The 3870 to the 4870 and before this these kinds of jumps in performance were common from both amd and nvidia.

The only reason that the 6 series was not a big step up from the 5 is that there was no node drop on the process. The 6 series was designed for 32nm which got cancelled.

From the leaked specs theres not much we can take from them as its brand new architecture so who knows how this will perform.

It is one because there is usually what they call a "tick tock" release. The tick will involve a "shrinking of process technology of the previous microarchitecture" and a tock is a new microarchitecture.

But we have had two tocks and no ticks and now we are having a tick tock at the same time (one from the shrinkage and the other from the new microarchitecture GCN). From there come my estimates of 30% to 50%.