Supposed AMD Radeon HD 8970 XT Photographed

[gsxrme]

Videocard PORN!

 

[yyk71200]

Shouldn't 8xxx series be OEM only and AMD jumps on 9xxx series for retail?

 

[JamesSneed]

If this holds true then, sadly, AMD won't have a GTX 780 competitor.

If this is true, 12.5% more SP's, TMU's, 50% more ROP's and a higher clock won't be competitive? Won't these increase performance by ~25-35%, which would make it a direct competitor....?

Who the heck really knows? It is a new architecture it could be better than ~25-35% but I doubt it will be worse than 25% as it would be pointless. We will all have to wait and see. At least its coming this year thanks to Nvidia.

 

[aggroboy]

Does the existence of this product mean slower release of 9000 series Volcanic Islands?

 

[spat55]

If this is how it is going to go, and there isn't much of a increase, I might have to get another HD 7850 and crossfire, and make use of what I already have. If they scale correctly I should get more than HD 7970 performance, even more with overclock

 

[spat55]

Just seen it is the 8xxx series, hopefully they are saving the big guns for the 9xxx series, like one of the other posters have said

 

[Soda-88]

Tech news from 4chan... are you effin' kidding me

 

[hardcore_player]

its a refresh for the 7970 nothing special

 

[Novuake]

its a refresh for the 7970 nothing special

No its not? That is not even possible if these specs are true...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7970-benchmark-tahiti-gcn,3104-3.html

Since nothing is disabled in the original HD7970 design, there is no possible way to increase ALU's/cores...

 

[Casecutter]

To me these spec's feel like what was rumored as just the "re-spin" on Tahiti back in the summer of 2012 basically what a Bonaire was to Cape Verde. Now while such revisions provided good perf/watt in a 7790, I think it didn't scale like that in the large chips. And why there's that like a 20% jump shown in the TDP for the 8970. I think AMD shelved Curacao and went for a 20Nm process part. They had time and could then truly compete with a GK100 as the GTX780, Titan they won’t fret over. I think they'll get 3 variants from the 20Nm wafer, while then re-spin the Pitcairn parts on 28Nm which had probably shown acceptable perf/watt. They can squeeze the GTX770 with a 28Nm part that spars and a faster 20Nm (LE) part, while a XT iteration get right up on the 780, but at a much lower price.

 

[woodscrews]

i leave /g/ for a couple of days and those days just happen to coincide with something not entirely inane being posted

god dammit