AMD Radeon HD 7970: Promising Performance, Paper-Launched

[Guest]

wait for the 7990 MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!

 

[Guest]

Still no update?since it's not "paper-launch" anymore. .

 

[lbxzero]

All I can ask is "what happened to XDR2?" I must have missed some article where AMD postponed the plan for XDR2 memory. Would have loved to see the early benchmarks showing XDR2.

 

[shin0bi272]

more Nvidia Kepler info:

the gk104 will be a little faster than the 580 and cost $299usd
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/23/exclusive-and-the-nvidia-keplergk104-price-is/

And more rumored specs this time performance
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/18184-nvidia-kepler-could-outperform-tahiti-handily/
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/19/nvidia-kepler-vs-amd-gcn-has-a-clear-winner/

Now if only Toms would post some of these... Though they were right about seeing kepler in february... its just the midrange card the 104... 100 should be out late march early april.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]shin0bi272[/nom]more Nvidia Kepler info:the gk104 will be a little faster than the 580 and cost $299usdhttp://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/23 [...] -price-is/And more rumored specs this time performancehttp://www.neoseeker.com/news/1818 [...] i-handily/http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/19 [...] ar-winner/Now if only Toms would post some of these... Though they were right about seeing kepler in february... its just the midrange card the 104... 100 should be out late march early april.[/citation]

GK-104 is supposed to actually cost a little more than you expect, more like $320-$400 according to the latest reports on Kepler. The GTX 680 is also supposed to use GK-104, so Nvidia decided against it being a simply mid-range GPU for Kepler. This seems to be in response to AMD's very lax performance with the 7000's cards when left at stock settings. Also, pretty much all of the "leaks" are easily proven to be junk if you really look into them, so it's hard to say really what will happen with Kepler. Kepler has a huge amount of lies about it's specifications going around.

 

[hannibal]

Asus 680 will cost 566.75$ so... a little bit more than you have been expecting...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Asus-GeForce-GTX-680-quot-Kepler-quot-Graphics-Card-Available-for-Pre-Order-in-the-US-259348.shtml

But, lets wait... only a couple of days until NDA is over.