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AMD Radeon HD 7890 "Tahiti LE" launches November 27
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/16/2012 08:50 AM | 21 comment(s) ]
Earlier on we talked about a Tahiti 7900 GPU being used for an upcoming 7800 series card. It seems that this, lets call it Tahiti LE with product name Radeon HD 7890, it seems it will be launching on November 27. The website HT4U states that the card will not be based upon an AMD-reference design and its AIB partners will be free to use their existing HD 7900 series boards on the product. That means we should see a lot of customized and factory overclocked models.
We know from slightly older reports that "Tahiti LE" is being designed to occupy a price point between the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and the Radeon HD 7950, and will be a limited edition.
Information like clock speeds, core and memory configurations are unknown, the new 7890 is being designed to be 15% faster than GeForce GTX 660 on average, at similar prices.
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#4456677 Posted on: 11/17/2012 07:12 PM
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He's a banned AntiAMD troll, enough said.
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He's a banned AntiAMD troll, enough said.
Give us the 8970, already!
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#4457034 Posted on: 11/18/2012 06:33 AM
To me it looks like they're spending money creating a new card for a niche market that nobody will know about. Informed people like those on tech related forums understand this is just another revision of a revision of the 7xxx card and is nothing special, thus few will by it. And the uninformed masses who are easily fooled by marketing will typically not even know of this cards existence since it will not get enough news media coverage since it's not the 8xxx series.
Micro-targeting with a product such as this will cost AMD more than they'll make. I'll bet the same managers who came up with this brilliant idea are the same who dreamed up the 7980 extreme edition or whatever they call it.
The upcoming release of a 7890LE gives me the impression that AMD won't be releasing any 8xxx series cards for at least 6 more months. I say this because AMD has never released a video card during the 6 month period prior to a new product line.
And when you factor in them not being able to build a 7990 card this time around when they did so for almost every other previous generation... things are not looking good for any 8xxx cards in the near future.
If it brings AMD some more monies, good for them.
To me it looks like they're spending money creating a new card for a niche market that nobody will know about. Informed people like those on tech related forums understand this is just another revision of a revision of the 7xxx card and is nothing special, thus few will by it. And the uninformed masses who are easily fooled by marketing will typically not even know of this cards existence since it will not get enough news media coverage since it's not the 8xxx series.
Micro-targeting with a product such as this will cost AMD more than they'll make. I'll bet the same managers who came up with this brilliant idea are the same who dreamed up the 7980 extreme edition or whatever they call it.
Give us the 8970, already!
The upcoming release of a 7890LE gives me the impression that AMD won't be releasing any 8xxx series cards for at least 6 more months. I say this because AMD has never released a video card during the 6 month period prior to a new product line.
And when you factor in them not being able to build a 7990 card this time around when they did so for almost every other previous generation... things are not looking good for any 8xxx cards in the near future.
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#4457069 Posted on: 11/18/2012 08:21 AM
masses who are easily fooled by marketing will typically not even know of this cards existence since it will not get enough news media coverage since it's not the 8xxx series.
These are the people who generally buy based on cost, given the quantitative nature of such purchases and assuming the card is priced correctly, I do not see why it can not sell as expected.
The upcoming release of a 7890LE gives me the impression that AMD won't be releasing any 8xxx series cards for at least 6 more months. I say this because AMD has never released a video card during the 6 month period prior to a new product line.
I am also not sure why you reached that conclusion, it seems to me the idea behind this launch is to clear out stock levels or reduce numbers for units that don't quite make the cut for higher end parts. These are also not being launched as AMD backed reference cards, so I do not believe they provide any insight as to what AMD may have in plan for the next series of cards.
masses who are easily fooled by marketing will typically not even know of this cards existence since it will not get enough news media coverage since it's not the 8xxx series.
These are the people who generally buy based on cost, given the quantitative nature of such purchases and assuming the card is priced correctly, I do not see why it can not sell as expected.
The upcoming release of a 7890LE gives me the impression that AMD won't be releasing any 8xxx series cards for at least 6 more months. I say this because AMD has never released a video card during the 6 month period prior to a new product line.
I am also not sure why you reached that conclusion, it seems to me the idea behind this launch is to clear out stock levels or reduce numbers for units that don't quite make the cut for higher end parts. These are also not being launched as AMD backed reference cards, so I do not believe they provide any insight as to what AMD may have in plan for the next series of cards.
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#4457074 Posted on: 11/18/2012 08:52 AM
by any chance, will it be on GCN 2 architecture?
by any chance, will it be on GCN 2 architecture?
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#4457140 Posted on: 11/18/2012 12:14 PM
Probably not. I guess this is something like nVidia did with the 560Ti 448 Core, trying to use up the dies that didn't cut the mustard for 7950 or 7970 standard.
by any chance, will it be on GCN 2 architecture?
Probably not. I guess this is something like nVidia did with the 560Ti 448 Core, trying to use up the dies that didn't cut the mustard for 7950 or 7970 standard.
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#4457214 Posted on: 11/18/2012 03:07 PM
100% sure, it will not.. It is based on Tahiti, Thaiti = 7950-7970 = GCN1.
GCN2 will be HD8000 series aka Sea Islands cards ( Or C Island as some call it ).
by any chance, will it be on GCN 2 architecture?
100% sure, it will not.. It is based on Tahiti, Thaiti = 7950-7970 = GCN1.
GCN2 will be HD8000 series aka Sea Islands cards ( Or C Island as some call it ).
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There will be no "new" 8970. It will be an updated 7970 with a new video bios and higher clocks.
5xxx series was a new arch, 6xxx was the same crap respun
Same thing for 8xxx, respun 7xxx. Go google it.
So 8970 won't really be that much better.
Are you forgetting that more shaders will be added and the arch will be tweaked for better performance? It won't be the 'same crap' as you eloquently put it :p.
The 8XXX series will still be a nice upgrade over the 7XXX series even if it only brings 10% - 15% better performance, it'll do it at similar price points. These new cards will most likely launch at cheaper prices than 7XXX series did due to 28nm being more mature, (Cheaper manufacture costs).