AMD Pitcairn With 768 Shaders: What is This Mystery Chip?

[FormatC]

Tom's Hardware Germany got its hands on a prototype of a AFOX HD 7850, the world's first single-slot board with this chip, which ended up being more than meets the eye. Is it an unannounced GPU, or something that was never meant to ever leave the lab?

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[captaincharisma]

AMD's next failiure

 

[monsta]

CSI Shanghai

 

[ScrewySqrl]

almost too bad...
there's a market for the 768-shader chip of a 7830 somewhere around $180, filling the gap between 7770 ($130) and 7850 ($230), replacing the old 6850/6870 and competing with the 560/560ti

 

[ctbaars]

I look for single slot solutions. Maybe AMD's next success.

 

[osamabinrobot]

im very interested in finding out how these perform heat wise. especially if i can drop two into my box in crossfire without there being like 1/2" between them for better air flow to knock back that almost automatic 10 degree jump in temp on the top card.

 

[fulle]

I was also hoping it was something filling the gap between the 7770 and 7850. A 768 shader Pitcairn could potentially be a near perfect HTPC card too. Enough performance to do some gaming, single slot solution, really low power consumption....

 

[EzioAs]

almost too bad...
there's a market for the 768-shader chip of a 7830 somewhere around $180, filling the gap between 7770 ($130) and 7850 ($230), replacing the old 6850/6870 and competing with the 560/560ti

Agreed. And with nvidia not releasing mid range cards for some time now, they could have the best solution for $200 and lower which is a great sweet spot for gamers in that budget

 

[EDVINASM]

Call it whatever you want, unless it works with Adobe Creative Suite (which it won't as it's not Cuda architecture) it is irrelevant for anything but games. IMO...

 

[ern88]

7830 anyone!!!

 

[fuzznarf]

[citation][nom]edvinasm[/nom]Call it whatever you want, unless it works with Adobe Creative Suite (which it won't as it's not Cuda architecture) it is irrelevant for anything but games. IMO...[/citation]
wrong! CS6 supports OpenCL.

 

[aftcomet]

Is "Pitcairn" another word for irrelevant?

 

[semisonic]

Maybe it's related to the design chip for the new Xbox or PS4?

 

[frombehind]

[citation][nom]semisonic[/nom]Maybe it's related to the design chip for the new Xbox or PS4?[/citation]

Maybe... But that does not explain the clearly PC-form-factor of this card, or the PC type connections.

Looks like a pet project that AMD decided not to pursue for whatever reason...

Although a single slot card of that kind of power does sound kinda cool.

 

[de5_Roy]

7830 or 7790? i thought 7790 would be a bit less powerful than this.
ba 7830 would be nice. there's a big gap between 7770 and 7850 that needs to be filled.
with nvidia facing supply issues and (afaik) no midrange kepler in sight... amd stands to make quite a bit of money at that segment. 7800 cards already offer very good performance in their class.

 

[ringzero]

I think Tom's copy editor must have left town or died. Tom's, heads up.... no one's editing your content! Hire someone new!

 

[eddieroolz]

An incomplete board is not always the best thing to be using for validation, since it might behave differently from the complete board. In either case though, I think we just ruined AMD's 7830 launch party.

 

[Guest]

They do have a gap, and this surfacing sure gets the speculation going for a 7830 or 7790.

 

[cobra5000]

[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]Is "Pitcairn" another word for irrelevant?[/citation]
No, but aftcomet is.

 

[alidan]

i would love a single slot "gameing" solution...
i dont need the best of the best, in fact i turn down shadows in every game reguardless of when it was made just because it gives me that much more headroom.
if i could put this instead of a 2 slot i would get it.

 

[blazorthon]

There're several gaps in performance between the GCN cards. The 7750 and 7770 have a large gap (7750 performs on par with the 6750, but the 7770 is right next to the 6850). The 7770 and the 7850 have a large gap (the 7770 is right with the 6850 the 7850 is between the 6950 2GB and the 6970). A 7830 would solve one of these gaps and it would do so very nicely. I doubt that the other gaps will be filled, but that's me.

 

[f-14]

must be the sample AMD was going to 'leak' to Nvidia spys & they were poking fun at the 460 768mb edition in a wink and a smile round about way.

 

[unther]

7790 or 7830?

 

[TheBigTroll]

7790 sounds better and pls makes more sense as the 7700 series are known to be pretty cool and more plausable for single slot configurations

 

[7amood]

FINALLY... original news from tom's
how long has it been? 10 years maybe?