Friday, December 16th 2011
Radeon HD 7970 Raw Specs Leaked
If slide leaked on Orb-Hardware is to be believed we GPU consumers are in for a pretty big treat in the next month or so. The slide shown below states that the AMD 7970 will have a default core clock speed of 925MHz and a whopping 3 GB of GDDR5 memory.
It also sports a 3.5 TFLOPs precision floating point. Which would put it well beyond the NVIDIA flagship single GPU solution. The slide states the a ROP count of 32, against an earlier speculated count of 48. This could be because AMD may have delinked ROP clusters from memory bus. The cooler itself is under the trademark AMD black shroud so there is no way to see if it uses the rumored "vapor chamber" as seen in after market solutions.
Looking past all the beastly prowess of this slide one cannot help but think about power draw. The "leaked" slide states the 7970 will have a peak power draw of 300 W and an idle draw of 3 W. We will have to wait for review to see if any of these amazing stats are true.
Source:
OBR Hardware
It also sports a 3.5 TFLOPs precision floating point. Which would put it well beyond the NVIDIA flagship single GPU solution. The slide states the a ROP count of 32, against an earlier speculated count of 48. This could be because AMD may have delinked ROP clusters from memory bus. The cooler itself is under the trademark AMD black shroud so there is no way to see if it uses the rumored "vapor chamber" as seen in after market solutions.
Looking past all the beastly prowess of this slide one cannot help but think about power draw. The "leaked" slide states the 7970 will have a peak power draw of 300 W and an idle draw of 3 W. We will have to wait for review to see if any of these amazing stats are true.
58 Comments on Radeon HD 7970 Raw Specs Leaked
3.5 TFlops is 30% more, and that's exactly the performance increase I think we will be seing. 128 TMU is also 30% more than Cayman so...
On GPGPU tasks Tahiti might trully eat GTX 580 alive though.
Notice it was the only one with OBR plastered all over it.
Other clues are less than 3w power draw.
It's either bullshit or they including the entire range.
So that floating point stuff is probably the dual GPU card or BS.
And the less than 3w at idle is probably the lowest end card. Even then that's a crazy low number.
You covered your self well in terms of posting it as a news story.
No criticisms there :toast:
However I do want the 79xx series to be a success. I want the same for NVIDIA. I like a good fight. Only thing is sadly games hardly take advantage of the 58xx series or the 4xx series by NVIDIA now. Both companies better watch their pricing because its becoming less and less justifiable to drop 500 bucks to play console ports.
Now for our folding buddies I REALLY hope these specs are true.
There's a how bunch of GPGPU stuff where AMD doesn't do nearly as badly because the developers have taken the time to code with their architecture in mind.
i am hopeing 7xxx will be even better though obv
I thought AMD performance was still abysmal.