Report: AMD to Launch Radeon HD 7950 on January 31

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Wow if the 7990 scales anywhere close to 7970 CF that is going to be one smoking card. Hopefully it will come down in price to @ $700-750 and i will be all over that S***! It might even make me leave Nvidia card, and thats hard to do.
 
At these price points, I'm not sure I'm interested in this generation. Perpahps when nVidia launches Kepler we'll see more reasonable pricing from AMD.
Can't blame them for charging what the product is worth tho, even if it is a lot more than it costs.

Hopefully this generation will drive the 6000 series prices down further. I can already see 6870s at a very nice pricing around here, even with the Dollar going up against BRL.
 
I'm awaiting the release of the 7800 and 7700 series. This year promises to be interesting on a price/performance war once nvidia rolls out its new series.
 
Hmmmm, £300 for a 7950, think I will wait for 8xxx or see what Nvidia produce middle of year. I paid £170 for my 5850 years ago now and it still plays everything flat out on 1920x1080, just do not see a game I am playing that needs £300 spent.

When I see 50% performance increase or more for the same money (Less than £200) I will upgrade like the move from 3850/4850/5850 1
 
When you look at the transistor count, it's kind of amazing that the GPUs aren't more expensive.

The 7970 has more than 3 times the transistors that Bulldozer has. When you add the rest of what's on a video card - DDR5 memory, a cooling solution, of course the board itself, and connectors, whatever other goodies the manufacturer throws in (cables and connectors), paying $550-$600 for the 7970 doesn't seem like so much.

(Of course, I remember when you could pay a grand for a single-GPU card. $600 doesn't seem like so much in that light. :) )

I think it would be silly for Nvidia to hold off and try to time Kepler's release with Ivy Bridge. What's the point in making potential customers wait longer? Many of us are chomping at the proverbial bit already. I think this is probably a silly rumor, really.

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[citation][nom]tlmck[/nom]Assuming the 7850 comes out and has higher performance and lower TDP than the 6850, I will probably jump on it as long as the price is right.[/citation]

According to the rumors, the 7850 will perform like a slightly higher clocked 6950. Basically they are going back to the naming from the 4xxx series and 5xxx series days instead of their weird naming for the 6-series.
 
Oh how I hate to read thing 🙂

So there is that new card you want. but it is too expensive of course. So you promis yourself I wait 6 month by which time it will have come down in price because the next model is out. than you read the numbers on the new card... and want that one naturally. And the cycle repeats itself ad finitum ;-)

 
Just hope this HD 7950 has a TDP of less than 200W, btw, can anybody tell me what the TDP of the 7970 is, with powertune set to 0, I'm suspecting it's 225W, while it's 250W if you set powertune to +20 (which would be the absolute limit for the PCB), but there seems to be a lot of confusion about it.
 
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