HD 7950 Specs Leaked

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2011 at 20:06

Last Thursday, AMD launched the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card based on its new 28 nm "Tahiti" silicon, but it remained tight-lipped about the specifications of the more important SKU that will be based on it, the Radeon HD 7950. The HD 7970 will carry a launch price of US $550, making the HD 7950 an SKU to watch out for. According to details released by XTReview, the "Tahiti Pro" or HD 7950 will be carved out this way:
1792 stream processors, 28 GCN compute units
112 TMUs, 32 ROPs (derived)
384-bit GDDR5 memory interface
3 GB memory, memory clock around 5.00 GHz
The core clock speed, the exact memory clock speed, and more importantly, the target price-point, remain unknown. The Radeon HD 7950 is expected to be launched on the 9th of January.

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Looks exciting, yes?

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This has been posted in another thread by cooper:

Interesting?

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Pete.Dakota · 26 Dec 2011 at 20:09

Doesn't mean much until benches.

Karateyid · 26 Dec 2011 at 20:10

How much do we expect these cards to weigh in at given 500 euro estimates of the 7970?

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2011 at 20:21

Karateyid said:
How much do we expect these cards to weigh in at given 500 euro estimates of the 7970?

I can only assume simular to the GTX 580. As we can assume the performance will be close o the GTX 580.

List updated.

bru · 26 Dec 2011 at 21:05

$100 less for the 7950, thats about £65. so we could be looking at £350 or even over £400 if the scary thoughts of nearly £500 7970 hold any merit.
one interesting thing tough the 1.5Gb 7950 at $150 cheaper could be a real gem of a card.

SFFNoob · 26 Dec 2011 at 21:17

Ouch, still pricey!

Duff-Man · 26 Dec 2011 at 22:17

$849 for the 7990? Wow...

Is that a new record for a reference design gaming card? Both the 6990 and the 590 were released at $699, and the 5970 was $599. Both the 4870x2 and the GTX295 were released at $499.

So, weighing in at $849, the 7990 will be a full $150 more expensive than any of the other reference dual-GPU cards on release.

pgi947 · 26 Dec 2011 at 22:23

Can see that 1.5GB card being a big hit with 1080 and below resolution gamers...

Unless its a must I'd say to anyone considering buying 79xx cards to hold off until the green team make their move later in the year, if kepler crushes AMD's latest offerings prices should take a beating too...

gurusan · 26 Dec 2011 at 22:24

Well the X1900XTX was $649 msrp. :/

TAC4U · 26 Dec 2011 at 22:42

So the 7990—factoring in the current exchange rate and adding VAT—will cost around £650? That's certainly pricey but not that much more than the 5970, which was £550, or the 6990, which is currently £575. However, the memory and the clock speeds are both lower than the 7950, which is an obvious concern; that suggests some an issue with the cooler, which means that even if it does have a decent overclock margin the fan noise will make it unusable for daily usage.

I really want to see how the final prices end up. If the 7970 ends up around £450-500 and the 7990 is only £150-200 more expensive then it offers reasonable value. Though Metro 2033 seems to be the only game that kills the 7970 and that's just with DOF; I also suspect that Metro: Last Light will be better optimised, rather than more demanding. Unless you're gaming at 2560x1600 the 7990 is going to be mega overkill and might not even offer good value with nVidia's latest offerings not far behind.

Certainly there's nothing here that has me excited, though if the price is right I'll take a look. At least AMD finally got around to including Crossfire options and game profiles, so it's easy to disable Crossfire when it gives you a performance hit - it's sad that it took them so long to catch up with nVidia.

Doomedspeed · 26 Dec 2011 at 22:58

I like the look of the 2GB 7870; looks like it could be a crowd pleaser?

MichaelM · 26 Dec 2011 at 23:02

TAC4U said:
So the 7990—factoring in the current exchange rate and adding VAT—will cost around £650? That's certainly pricey but not that much more than the 5970, which was £550, or the 6990, which is currently £575. However, the memory and the clock speeds are both lower than the 7950, which is an obvious concern; that suggests some an issue with the cooler, which means that even if it does have a decent overclock margin the fan noise will make it unusable for daily usage.

I really want to see how the final prices end up. If the 7970 ends up around £450-500 and the 7990 is only £150-200 more expensive then it offers reasonable value. Though Metro 2033 seems to be the only game that kills the 7970 and that's just with DOF; I also suspect that Metro: Last Light will be better optimised, rather than more demanding. Unless you're gaming at 2560x1600 the 7990 is going to be mega overkill and might not even offer good value with nVidia's latest offerings not far behind.

Certainly there's nothing here that has me excited, though if the price is right I'll take a look. At least AMD finally got around to including Crossfire options and game profiles, so it's easy to disable Crossfire when it gives you a performance hit - it's sad that it took them so long to catch up with nVidia.

5970: 725 MHz - 5870: 850 MHz
6990: 830 MHz - 6970: 880 MHz
7990: 850 MHz - 7970: 925 MHz

Business as usual.

cainer · 26 Dec 2011 at 23:17

welcome to a couple of days ago http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18354678&page=14

~>Dg<~ · 26 Dec 2011 at 23:51

Doomedspeed said:
I like the look of the 2GB 7870; looks like it could be a crowd pleaser?

its basically a 6970 refresh

nitram100 · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:16

Hadn't heard of the 7890 before? Looks nice.

kmax86 · 27 Dec 2011 at 01:05

prices are depressing

/being a student sux

nocturnal1974 · 27 Dec 2011 at 03:52

kmax86 said:
prices are depressing
/being a student sux

no it doesn't, being a student prevents you being an ultra consumerist which brings you absolutely no joy in the long run

my gfx card (radeon 6850) blew up last April, I got a refund, I didn't even buy another one, instead I'm playing Jedi Knight and Sniper Elite and enjoying the gaming more than ever with the integrated GPU on my i3 530 CPU!

I've toyed with the idea of buying the new Radeon 7000 series but seriously I couldn't care less anymore

drunkenmaster · 27 Dec 2011 at 07:12

A 30CU card with lower clocks would have been best for the end user, more potential speed at any given clock, you end up paying for an underclocked card you can then overclock, rather than paying for a card that has little headroom and won't increase its per clock performance.

Oh well, these specs were also "leaked" a good long time ago now. If it unlocks and IF the prices are closer to US pricing than the current suggested UK pricing has been saying then you could end up with a "full" 7950 for not much more than £300.

Still no where near 5850/6950 value but not abhorrent, I still won't buy at those prices. I still think we can see big price movements, both if sales suck, if capacity increase, wafer prices come down and what Nvidia do to compete on price.

The 7870 prices, and what should be 6970/50 EOL pricing, and what Nvidia have to do to counter that could bring ALL the prices down, top to bottom, including the 7950/70.

555BUK · 27 Dec 2011 at 11:02

Launch pricing means that this will probably be the first "latest generation" graphics card line (from either camp) that I will skip for over 10 years. It just doesn't seem worth the premium to me.

porkmince · 27 Dec 2011 at 11:29

yes if the 7950 1.5GB has a sensible price ill go for that

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