(T)eflon(S)hadow
R.I.P. Neda
+456|6800|Grapevine, TX
Looks like you can start pre-ordering on December 22! I've never owned a top of the line GPU, but Im about too!

Dozens of new sites wrote:

In a surprising move, AMD pulled the launch date of Radeon HD 7970, a high-performance single-GPU graphics card based on the 28 nm Tahiti silicon, up to December 22, 2011; from its earlier launch date of January 09, 2012. The January date was a lot more than speculation, as older presentation slides from AMD to distributors and retailers talked specifically about it. The move to pull December 22 (next Thursday) spices things up in the run up for CES. First, it gives AIB partners full freedom to show off their custom-design graphics cards at the event, along with full details about GPU specifications and clock speeds.

According to a VR-Zone report, Radeon HD 7970 will launch on December 22, 2011, this will be the day you will be able to read reviews of the card (at least the AMD reference design board), online. It will be a limited launch (read: paper-launch), but one can expect “full” retail availability of the card by January 09. Another interesting bit of information is concerning the Radeon HD 7950. This card will be available in non-reference board designs from day one, it will however launch on January 09.

Techpowerup.com wrote:

AMD Radeon HD 7970 launch is just around the corner. Ahead of its launch, AMD conducted its usual press briefing. DonanimHaber has access to some of the slides shown in that meeting. Earlier this day, we brought you perhaps the most important of them all, specifications. Let's take a look at the reference board design itself. AMD is sticking to the black+red colour scheme, and has come up with a swanky new cooling assembly design. The design, unlike those of higher-end Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards, is surprisingly curvy and features dashes of red plastic making up its contours, surrounded by tougher black ABS.

A welcome change here from the previous generations, is that the card is truly single-slot capable, when say, a single-slot full-coverage water block is used. High-end cards from previous generation HD 5000 and HD 6000 have a dual DVI connector cluster that extends into two expansion slots, which many enthusiasts found to be annoying, especially when setting up benches with four single-GPU graphics cards in scenarios where PCI-Express slot spacing isn't kind. Moving on to display connectivity, the card has one DVI, one HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort connectors, all arranged in the confines of a single expansion slot. The space of the second slot is dedicated to a hot-air exhaust of the cooling assembly. All board partners are required to ship HDMI-to-DVI dongles, and active mini-DP dongles.

The cooler uses a full-coverage vapor-chamber plate to collect heat from all major components on the obverse side of the card, and convey it to the aluminum fin channel array attached to it. These components include the 4.3 billion transistor Tahiti GPU, 12 GDDR5 memory chips, and MOSFETs found across the various V-reg areas of the card. The aluminum fin channel array is ventilated by a blower. AMD claims to have improved the blower design from previous generations to have higher air-flow and improved acoustics.

Like with the HD 6900 series, the HD 7900 series reference boards feature two sets of BIOS, located in two separate EEPROM chips that can be toggled using a small switch on the top of the card (next to the CFBI connectors). The 1st EEPROM is "unprotected", it packs reference speeds, but you can flash it with your own modified BIOS. The second EEPROM is "protected" from flashes, and packs failsafe reference speeds. It's your insurance against BIOS flashing screw-ups, and cuts down the cumbersome process of BIOS recovery using a second display card, or the rocket-science of "blind-flashing".

Lastly, AMD talks about overclocking headroom. The HD 7970 looks to have default core speed of "a little over 900 MHz", could be 925 MHz for all we know, looking at that last slide. AMD says that overclocking to 1 GHz core is well within reach using the reference cooler, "and beyond".
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heggs
Spamalamadingdong
+581|6359|New York
Oh man, I hope this brings down the prices of the 6 series cards. I really really want to get a good deal on a 6870.
Remember Me As A Time Of Day
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6708|Oxferd Ohire
the 6870 is a good deal
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
heggs
Spamalamadingdong
+581|6359|New York

RTHKI wrote:

the 6870 is a good deal
I want a better deal, if I can get one. I'm talking like, them getting rid of inventory so that the 6870 is being sold for like $125
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Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6441
i'm getting rid of my 6870. i'll sell it on bf2s if you want. i don't need a dx11 graphics card, total waste of money tbh. what's the point in this 7-series? oh goody, we can play shit games in better framerates. all the best games run on dx9 tech.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Beduin
Compensation of Reactive Power in the grid
+510|5721|شمال
looking forward to see benchmarks. it will be very interesting to see the temps, now that they have lower power consumption. i might get three 7970..
الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام
...show me the schematic
eusgen
Nugget
+402|6763|Jupiter

Uzique wrote:

i'm getting rid of my 6870. i'll sell it on bf2s if you want. i don't need a dx11 graphics card, total waste of money tbh. what's the point in this 7-series? oh goody, we can play shit games in better framerates. all the best games run on dx9 tech.
oh boy someone is mad bout bf3
-Whiteroom-
Pineapplewhat
+572|6629|BC, Canada
The single-slot capabilities are a nice change back. The trend of larger making cards take mors and more space has been annoying.
FloppY_
­
+1,010|6257|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

-Whiteroom- wrote:

The single-slot capabilities are a nice change back. The trend of larger making cards take mors and more space has been annoying.
My brand new 560ti 448core is tri-slot.. lols

It looked even bigger when it arrived than I expected from the pictures, it's really massive...
https://upload.hardver-teszt.hu/imgs/news/2011/2079/asus-gtx-560-ti-448-4-b.jpg
https://upload.hardver-teszt.hu/imgs/news/2011/2079/asus-gtx-560-ti-448-6-b.jpg

Last edited by FloppY_ (2011-12-16 14:41:09)

­ Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5759|Catherine Black

Uzique wrote:

i'm getting rid of my 6870. i'll sell it on bf2s if you want. i don't need a dx11 graphics card, total waste of money tbh. what's the point in this 7-series? oh goody, we can play shit games in better framerates. all the best games run on dx9 tech.
thought I had first dibs on that, prick
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
N00bkilla55404
Voices are calling...
+136|5902|Somewhere out in Space
I cant believe you got ASUS Floop, there is a reason no other company makes their main cards tri slot.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6441

eusgen wrote:

Uzique wrote:

i'm getting rid of my 6870. i'll sell it on bf2s if you want. i don't need a dx11 graphics card, total waste of money tbh. what's the point in this 7-series? oh goody, we can play shit games in better framerates. all the best games run on dx9 tech.
oh boy someone is mad bout bf3
make that every graphicaly-pretty-yet-gameplay-empty game in the last 5 years

tf2 ran on my 8800GTX, and that was the last decent game to come out
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6441

Finray wrote:

Uzique wrote:

i'm getting rid of my 6870. i'll sell it on bf2s if you want. i don't need a dx11 graphics card, total waste of money tbh. what's the point in this 7-series? oh goody, we can play shit games in better framerates. all the best games run on dx9 tech.
thought I had first dibs on that, prick
are you not on bf2s as well?
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6603|949

How much Do you want for it Uzi?
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6441
let the bidding war commence

btw it only runs bf3 on high so don't think the 6870 is this godmode of a mid-range card, cause it aint
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5759|Catherine Black

Uzique wrote:

let the bidding war commence
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6603|949

I have a 5870, but I was thinking of upgrading. I'll pay you $10 more than whatever fin offers
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5759|Catherine Black
He offered it to me for £100
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6603|949

Well I would pay more but If he already offered it to you I don't want to pull a dick move
Little BaBy JESUS
m8
+394|6119|'straya
What's the point of upgrading from a 5870 to a 6870 when the performance is so similar?
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6603|949

More POWa! Plus then I can kick down my 5870 to replace my bro's 5770
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6742|PNW

I like that "never settle" message.

Hah.
aerodynamic
FOCKING HELL
+241|5724|Roma
i wonder what the 7990 is gonna be like, if they ever make one.
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jaymz9350
Member
+54|6548

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I have a 5870, but I was thinking of upgrading. I'll pay you $10 more than whatever fin offers
unless your going to crossfire the 5870 is a stronger single card, the 6870 wasn't meant to replace the 5870 but the lower end 58xx cards.
Little BaBy JESUS
m8
+394|6119|'straya
The 68xx was more a replacement for the 57xx. The 69xx were the replacement for the 58xx and 59xx cards.

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