Radeon HD 7970

[John P. Myers]

HD 7970 to be released Jan. 9th (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12015/)

Rumored 7970 Specs: (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12012/)
4.50 billion transistors, die-area of 380 mm², built on TSMC 28 nm process
PCI Express 3.0
Advanced GCN 1D architecture
2048 1D processing cores @ 1000MHz
128 TMUs, 48 ROPs
384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, memory clock slightly below 1 GHz, target bandwidth of 240~264 GB/s
Estimated 4096 GFLOPS

[Fire$torm]

Sweet!

I did find this (Link (http://lenzfire.com/2011/12/official-release-date-of-amd-radeon-hd-7900-series-is-confirmed-81671/)) after reading your post but they do not cite the source of their information. Stupid.....

[spingadus]

HD 7970 to be released Jan. 9th (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12015/)

Rumored 7970 Specs: (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12012/)
4.50 billion transistors, die-area of 380 mm², built on TSMC 28 nm process
PCI Express 3.0
Advanced GCN 1D architecture
2048 1D processing cores @ 1000MHz
128 TMUs, 48 ROPs
384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, memory clock slightly below 1 GHz, target bandwidth of 240~264 GB/s
Estimated 4096 GFLOPS

You sure it's not 2.5 billion transistors?

[John P. Myers]

You sure it's not 2.5 billion transistors?

LMAO it very well could be ;)

[DrPop]

Hmmm...I may be happier than ever that the egg decided on a refund than a replace in a few months? Guess we'll see how all this pans out. ;)

[rgathright]

2048 processing cores @ 1,000Mhz? You could purchase two of these video cards and catch up to almost any single (multi-gpu) machine in an ATI project over the course of just 1 month!

Sounds like a very good reason to hold onto my AMD Opteron 6272 budget!

Seriously, are ATI projects really ready for multiple systems with these cards?

Sadly, I predict even more BOINC server crashes in 2012!

[Fire$torm]

.....Sadly, I predict even more BOINC server crashes in 2012!

ugh......

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ESek1W_r0r4/TSdirSxbaTI/AAAAAAAAARU/A0fO6eGx6U8/s1600/crash.jpg

http://perezbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Server-Maintenance1.jpg

[Mr. Hankey]

I just talked with my inside AMD guy tonight, and he confirmed that they have shipped out to the retailers. They aren't supposed to sell them before Jan 9th but keep your eyes out because inside amd they seem to think the smaller shops are just going to sell whatever they can get now. The big guys are stocking up to meet demand. As for performance, on some workloads the board is 2x the 69 series in performance at the same peak power. Idle power is down to 3w from the current 30 or 70 something like that, but who idles these things anyway :o

http://www.slashgear.com/adm-radeon-hd-7970-specifications-revealed-in-leaked-slide-15202635/

[John P. Myers]

Hmmm...those specs are a tad different then the ones i posted lol

only 32 ROPs with 384bit bus? That seems....wrong. 48 makes much more sense. But i dunno. I'm probably just embarrassing myself :p You'd think this close to launch, AMD would release the official specs to get people drooling.

EDIT: Look what i just found (http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/amd-moves-radeon-7970-launch-to-december-22-card-specs-leaked-online/) lol

RE-EDIT: looking back at the "slide" from slashgear.com, it's looking more fake now than before. Not only are the number of ROPs wrong to me, but the word "Embargo" is spelled wrong at the bottom. Hmmm

[Beerdrinker]

I am no tech-guy when it comes to these things....

I need something I can measure...So...

How much credit will this do (estimated) on the best paying Ati proejcts? (Moo/collatz) :p

[Fire$torm]

I am no tech-guy when it comes to these things....

I need something I can measure...So...

How much credit will this do (estimated) on the best paying Ati proejcts? (Moo/collatz) :p

Based on the net leaks, it can easily give you a 50% increase (sans CreditNew). The stuff I've read says it can do twice the work while using less or equal power. If you factor in say 15% for relative overhead and inefficiencies, it can out produce the 6xxx series by up to 85%.