Report: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series to Launch January 9

[tecmo34]

Information coming out of the Turkish website DonanimHaber, shows the release date for AMD's new Radeon HD 7900 series is set for January 9, 2012.

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[fyasko]

can't wait!

 

[Cyber Build PC]

It will be nice to see some new cards on the market. Although $700 sounds kind of a high price for an amd card.

 

[cmcghee358]

Yikes.

In all honesty, I don't see even a Crossfire configuration capable of pushing 5760x1080 @ 120Hz.

Even with the new cards.

 

[buzznut]

Huh, I thought the mainstream GPUs were coming first and the high end cards coming later with rambus memory?

Well, I certainly won't be buying a $700 card in January..

 

[Cyber Build PC]

After reading the first part again I noticed that they put 2010 instead of 2012. XD

 

[mjello]

January 9, 2010. Ooh yeah back to the future . I would like to backorder one immediately.

 

[tmk221]

384 bit wide memory nice! that's gonna make difference alone

 

[lpedraja2002]

Yeah bring on the new gen cards, I will finally be able to upgrade my 8800gt when they bring curret gen card prices down.

 

[Guest]

lol, 9 January 2010?? typo much

 

[alterecho]

[citation][nom]mjello[/nom]Ooh yeah back to the future.[/citation]

Future to the back.

 

[alikum]

Come on people! Proof read the damn article!

 

[DSpider]

3D for multiple displays? Won't the bezel size affect the 3D illusion? I've been asking myself this ever since Nvidia introduced it.

Also, where mah HD 7670 at? Because it looks like no joy this Christmas...

 

[joytech22]

$700?
These things better perform as much as they cost especially for single GPU cards.

 

[nikorr]

Already!

 

[Swolern]

Im interested to see how these new cards will handle some extreme tessellation.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I wonder what he price difference between January 9, 2010 and January 9, 2012 is.

 

[Silluete]

Already waiting for 7770, can't wait to upgrade my 4650 ddr2....

 

[Andre2807]

I'll never buy a $700 graphics card. 1920 x 1080 resolution is enough for me, and a GTX 560 Ti/ATI 6950 1Gb will hit 40 - 60 fps most of the time.

 

[rmpumper]

Europe gets screwed with prices once again.

 

[Guest]

Nvidia and amd needs to make the next gen card PCI-E 3.0 ONLY. if you arent ready for it then you can get the current gen. PCI-e 3 if fully utilized can make a huge difference, this can improve graphics, think of the desginers who has to create huge art work, this can make it so much faster.

 

[eddieroolz]

Looking past the 7k & 600 series, I wonder what convoluted naming will come out of both camps for their next-next generation.

 

[Zeh]

[citation][nom]dsa43f2[/nom]Nvidia and amd needs to make the next gen card PCI-E 3.0 ONLY. if you arent ready for it then you can get the current gen. PCI-e 3 if fully utilized can make a huge difference, this can improve graphics, think of the desginers who has to create huge art work, this can make it so much faster.[/citation]

You're a bit hasty there, altough I agree, to some extent. Almost nobody has a pci-e 3.0 ready motherboard, so, who would buy those cards?

Make it PCI-e 2.0+ only, and they can sell the cards to a lot more people, and maybe get rid of one of those power plugs (since pci-e 2.0 offers up to 150w instead of 75w).

 

[Zeh]

Forgot to mention: with this price tag, performance better be stellar, or else nobody would buy them anyways.

 

[SpadeM]

[citation][nom]rmpumper[/nom]Europe gets screwed with prices once again.[/citation]
Yup ... as always this probably will be false: "early European pricing for the HD 7970 is in the range of 539-549 Euro (or $699.03 to $712.00)"

I've never seen this to happen, it will probably be like: 539-549 $ and 699 - 712 euros. There's something dubious about the conversion, i can't help but wonder what kind of reality distortion field is out there that comes up with these prices.