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Any info on the 7850?

petridish

petridish

petridish

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Hi everybody,

Quick question as in the title, any ideas on the release date and spec of the 7850? I'm looking at getting a graphics card soon (currently on the i5 igpu) but happy to wait if the next gen cards aren't too far off. Just trying to guage where abouts the card will fit in with current offerings and in the mean time the longer I wait the more money I'll have to spend :)

Thanks guys!
 
7850 and 7870 should start being available from the 2nd week of March I believe.

Waiting myself to see what performance the 7870 gives for the price.
 
petridish said:
Hmm not too long to go i guess, thanks gooner.

Any idea of pricing yet?
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Looking at how AMD have priced their current 7000 series cards I would set your expectations to low. Just look at their product mix at the moment they have two top end cards at £350 to £450 and two mid range cards priced at £85-£130 which means there's a massive hole that needs to be filled between £170-£300.

If the 7700 is anything to go buy your better off looking for bargin deals on 6000 series hardware. I've seen a 6870 1Gb for £116 delivered which I want to buy which performance wise murders the 7770 which costs more.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Looking at how AMD have priced their current 7000 series cards I would set your expectations to low. Just look at their product mix at the moment they have two top end cards at £350 to £450 and two mid range cards priced at £85-£130 which means there's a massive hole that needs to be filled between £170-£300.
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Thats a very good point and a nice way to look at it. how many cards are going to be used to fill that gap, we know that there will be 1.5GB versions of the 7950 and we can assume there will probably be two memory sizes for the 7870 1GB/2GB or what ever amount they will have. So that is 3 maybe 4 cards between £170 - £300

£170 - 7850

£200 - 7870 1GB

£230 - 7870 2GB

£270 - 7950 1.5GB

maybe something like that.
 
bru said:
Thats a very good point and a nice way to look at it. how many cards are going to be used to fill that gap, we know that there will be 1.5GB versions of the 7950 and we can assume there will probably be two memory sizes for the 7870 1GB/2GB or what ever amount they will have. So that is 3 maybe 4 cards between £170 - £300

£170 - 7850

£200 - 7870 1GB

£230 - 7870 2GB

£270 - 7950 1.5GB

maybe something like that.
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Yeah thanks both of you, guess it makes sense to just fill in the gaps ha I'm such a fool. Think I'll be holding out then but patience isn't my strong point
 
bru said:
Thats a very good point and a nice way to look at it. how many cards are going to be used to fill that gap, we know that there will be 1.5GB versions of the 7950 and we can assume there will probably be two memory sizes for the 7870 1GB/2GB or what ever amount they will have. So that is 3 maybe 4 cards between £170 - £300

£170 - 7850

£200 - 7870 1GB

£230 - 7870 2GB

£270 - 7950 1.5GB

maybe something like that.
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I think the 7850 will come in nearer £150 and the 7870 nearer £180, as 7770 was rumoured to be £140 and came in at £120(ish)
 
AMD Pitcairn Specifications Surface

The launch of AMD's Radeon 7800 series is on course for March, as AMD wants to complete the launches of the entire Radeon 7000 series before NVIDIA even has its first GPU out. Radeon HD 7800 will be designed to occupy key price points in the sub-$300 market segment, where it strikes price-performance sweetspots for gamers. Central to this series is a new 28 nm GPU, codenamed "Pitcairn", from which will be derived three SKUs: the Radeon HD 7870, Radeon HD 7850 2 GB, and Radeon HD 7850 1 GB. The specifications look like this:

Radeon HD 7850
20 Graphics CoreNext Compute Units, 1280 stream processors
80 TMUs, 24 ROPs (de-linked from the memory bus, of course)
256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, 2 GB and 1 GB variants
Clock speeds of 900 MHz core, 1250 MHz (5.00 GHz effective) memory

Radeon HD 7870 specifications follow.

Radeon HD 7870
22 GCN CUs, 1408 stream processors
88 TMUs, 24 ROPs (de-linked from memory bus)
256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, 2 GB
Clock speeds of 950 MHz core, 1375 MHz (5.50 GHz effective) memory
Some time after March, AMD will likely launch a "Radeon HD 7890" SKU, which will be based on the Tahiti GPU.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/160868/AMD-Pitcairn-Specifications-Surface.html
 
If the 7770 and its price, plus Gibbo's post is any indication, 7850 would most likely to be around same price as (possibly a bit more than) GTX560Ti/6950, but a bit slower than them.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
If the 7770 and its price, plus Gibbo's post is any indication, 7850 would most likely to be around same price as (possibly a bit more than) GTX560Ti/6950, but a bit slower than them.
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Yeh sounds about right, we seem to be getting less performance per £ this generation due to everyone thinking low power consumption is important lol.
 
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