AMD HD 8800 Series SKUs Surface in Leaked Document

[buzznut]

We can only hope for those prices. Man, wouldn't they sell an awful lot of videocards if they did?

 

[ang1dust]

🙁 i was happy till i got to the bottom and saw someone already asked if it could run crysis...sigh. I am super excited for the mobile version. By the time the 89xx mobile (probably a 87xx) comes out the successor for the ivy bridge should be out and it will be a superb rig.

 

[ang1dust]

🙁 i was happy till i got to the bottom and saw someone already asked if it could run crysis...sigh. I am super excited for the mobile version. By the time the 89xx mobile (probably a 87xx) comes out the successor for the ivy bridge should be out and it will be a superb rig.

 

[nforce4max]

Impressive to say the least, not only increasing clocks and transistor counts but keeping the TDP with in very similar limits is a feat in engineering. I liked GCN as it is but second gen now that is going to be something to go woot about

 

[bago21]

when exactly are these cards set to be released? early 2013?

 

[jerm1027]

Hopefully they will release soon. I've been itching to upgrade my old 5830. 😀

 

[walter87]

[citation][nom]bago21[/nom]when exactly are these cards set to be released? early 2013?[/citation]

Typically, the last few generations (6000 and 7000 series) have been launched early new year.
The 7870 and 7850 were both launched in Feb/March and the higher end 7970 in January. I'd predict the same timeframes for the 8850/70 and 8970.

 

[rohitbaran]

8800 won't be the high end, if they follow the current naming. It will be the successor to 7800 series, which isn't high end. A $279 price for a medium-high end card isn't very low.

 

[spleenbegone]

Will be upgrading my crossfired 6850's when these come out.

 

[fonzy]

I was thinking on buying a 7850 but I will probably hold off for the 8850. Unless the 7850 takes a huge price drop.

 

[Hazle]

*Latest AMD Price Drop*
welp, it's about time i go buy myself a 785-

*this*
i'll wait. again. with my 2 year old 6870.

 

[Nills]

The 8850 looks to be a steal at that price.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]ATMinside[/nom]Wow those memory bandwidth speeds are nearing eDRAM speeds. If only we had that kind of speed on the DDR standard I wonder what kind of improvements we might see in general computing.[/citation]

Why are they so impressive? They're almost identical to GTX 670/680 bandwidth. Chances are that these cards also use GDDR5, not some other type of memory anyway, so it's still technically a form of DDR memory (albeit one that *pretends* to be QDR).

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]ang1dust[/nom]i was happy till i got to the bottom and saw someone already asked if it could run crysis...sigh. I am super excited for the mobile version. By the time the 89xx mobile (probably a 87xx) comes out the successor for the ivy bridge should be out and it will be a superb rig.[/citation]

The mobile flagship card is more likely to be based off of the 8870 unless AMD is going to break several years of tradition.

 

[uglynerdman]

it doesnt actually look that good. i expected the wattage to go down alot.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]uglynerdman[/nom]it doesnt actually look that good. i expected the wattage to go down alot.[/citation]

They're on the same process node and they're supposedly increasing performance significantly. How could you expect power consumption go down by much if both of those are true? It would take a huge architectural re-haul and would probably need to involve stupid crap such as abandoning compute performance like Kepler FP32 did.

 

[blazorthon]

I just looked at prices and the price difference number of the 8850 is wrong. $200 is 20% lower than $250, not 25% lower. $250 is 25% greater than $200, but that's not what the numbers say.

 

[Regor245]

[citation][nom]spat55[/nom]Hope they arn't that good just got my 7850 4 months ago and the 8750 looks like it will wipe he floor with it! Oh well at least I haven't OC'ed it yet! and have that to look forward to.[/citation]


You don't need to upgrade if Games runs fine on your current card and you don't need to Max out Settings just to play games.

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If the 8770 doesn't need a 6-pin... cool

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]But can it run Crysis Unreal Engine 4?[/citation]
Considering it's a highly scalable engine and not a game, I'm sure that UE4 (in some form) will run on a $50 GPU from two years ago. Now if you come up with a specific game using UE4 that is brutal, then you might have something. But not all UE4-based games will be taxing - again, scalability.

 

[as33]

wow those look awesome , if not a bit on the optimistic side with the TDP staying as it is. Wonder if CGN big bro can rly pull of the efficiency suggested (wont call it fake but yea "optimistic")

 

[godfather666]

Sounds too good to be true.

But if it is true, that's fantastic news. These specs and prices are amazing.

 

[doive1231]

Aren't there laws against artificially influencing your own share price?

 

[falchard]

HAH, not happening. Increasing die size on same node size will decrease power consumption and pricing does not compute. That would be vodoo science to be true.

 

[maddy143ded]

will have to jump from HD5770.... (been going for nearly 3 yrs now..)
I was leaning towards HD7870 especially at $210(HIS) was very very tempting, but can easily wait till summer...
there is no game currently compelling enough for me to upgrade urgently, especially as I am still gaming at 1366x768.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]proffet[/nom]P.S.any mentioning of XDR2 RAM instead of GDDR5.?[/citation]
This is just the GPU, we are a long way off RAM, coolers, PCBs or other factors
...
But $199 for a 8850 - THAT is what I call a sweet spot