AMD is going to lower the price of 3D-card Radeon HD 7970, HD 7950 and HD 7700

AMD did not rush to lower prices for its 3D-maps of a 28-nanometer GPU in response to the release of the first model, the new generation by NVIDIA. Perhaps the superiority of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 on AMD Radeon HD 7970 AMD does not seem too convincing. Perhaps the volume of deliveries 28-nanometer production lags behind demand. Somehow, over time, AMD will still need to go for lower prices in order to strengthen its position before the release of the following models the architecture of NVIDIA's Kepler and support the demand, when no longer affect the novelty effect.

According to sources, AMD is already preparing the first stage to reduce the price of 3D-card series Radeon HD 7900. As stated, the new recommended price model of Radeon HD 7970 will equal $ 489, Radeon HD 7950 - $ 394. This means that the older model cheaper at $ 60 (now its recommended price is $ 549), and the youngest - to $ 55 (it is now worth $ 449). From a psychological point of view, the price will go to another step of perception - with "more than $ 500" to "$ 500" and "more than $ 400" to "$ 400".

And cheaper model Radeon HD 7770. But not so much in absolute terms - for $ 15.

When the new prices will be announced, the source is not reported.

The first information about the GPU AMD Tenerife

Source procured a slide presentation of AMD, which sheds light on the GPU under the symbol Tenerife. It is assumed that this model will follow Tahiti (Radeon HD 7970).

The basis of Tenerife is the "improved architecture Graphics CoreNext» or Graphics CoreNext 2.0. As stated, it is possible to increase productivity by 20% compared to Tahiti. The slide does not indicate the number of stream processors, but according to some, it is equal to 2304. I wonder what this is now the number of stream processors in the Radeon HD 7970. According to unconfirmed reports, up to 2048 in the serial product is reduced to increase the yield rate of products. This method is used by other manufacturers, for example, the GeForce GTX 480 is used by 480 CUDA cores of the 512 possible, and six-core processors Intel Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 obtained from the eight-crystals (in addition, they use only 15 MB of cache memory of 20 MB formed on the substrate).

Map based on the new GPU will have 3 GB of memory GDDR5. A typical value of power consumption is also not specified, but the card is in idle mode consumes only 3 Watts. The equipment products designed to connect up to six displays, video outputs include HDMI and miniDP.

It is expected that the new product will be released in the third quarter. Whether products based on Tenerife belong to series Radeon HD 7000 or they will open the series Radeon HD 8900 - one can only guess.

The temperature of GPU AMD Radeon HD 7970 overclocked to 1.26 GHz with a nominal cooling system does not exceed 68 ° C

By AMD, definitely made ​​a gift to overclockers with the release of 3D-card AMD Radeon HD 7970 for 28-nanometer GPU. As is known, reference GPU and memory AMD Radeon HD 7970 is 925 and 5500 MHz respectively. The components card has already been overclocked to 1.7 GHz and 8.0 GHz , although the use of special tools. Producers are preparing to release a model of its own design, overclocked at the factory: already has information on the respective plans Sapphire and Gigabyte . And what a buyer can expect card reference design?

Our colleagues have attempted to answer this question and were able to achieve GPU 1,26 GHz frequency.

Note that any changes to the structure maps have been made. It is noteworthy that when fully loaded with software Furmark, when the fan is regular cooling system working at maximum speed, temperature sensor, showing ... 68 ° C.   Source: VR-Zone