Thursday, January 19th 2012
Sapphire HD 7950 3 GB Pictured
Pictures of the Sapphire HD 7950 3 GB graphics card have been leaked on the Guru3D forum by user asder00. No further details or specifications were given other than "Product name: Sapphire HD7950 3G GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/DVI-I/DUAL MINI DP OC VERSION".
As can be seen by the cooler, this is a non-reference design - at least for the cooler. The cooler is coloured black, has a very modern, sharp, angular and somewhat futuristic look to it and sports two large Sapphire-branded fans. Of course, it has heatpipes and five are visible. The design of this cooler suggests that it should work quietly and cool efficiently. Connectivity is aided and abetted by one DVI port, one full size HDMI port and two mini-DisplayPorts, like on its bigger brother the HD 7970. Moving on to the box, one can see that it has a 384-bit bus and 3 GB GDDR5, again like the HD 7970. The box also shows a logo with "OverClock" written boldly in white on it. The inevitable attractive lady box art in this instance has her wearing a grey top, a partial face mask and a helmet from what looks like the wars of yesteryear, plus she is carrying a rifle over her shoulder.
As can be seen by the cooler, this is a non-reference design - at least for the cooler. The cooler is coloured black, has a very modern, sharp, angular and somewhat futuristic look to it and sports two large Sapphire-branded fans. Of course, it has heatpipes and five are visible. The design of this cooler suggests that it should work quietly and cool efficiently. Connectivity is aided and abetted by one DVI port, one full size HDMI port and two mini-DisplayPorts, like on its bigger brother the HD 7970. Moving on to the box, one can see that it has a 384-bit bus and 3 GB GDDR5, again like the HD 7970. The box also shows a logo with "OverClock" written boldly in white on it. The inevitable attractive lady box art in this instance has her wearing a grey top, a partial face mask and a helmet from what looks like the wars of yesteryear, plus she is carrying a rifle over her shoulder.
29 Comments on Sapphire HD 7950 3 GB Pictured
Remember the Dawn versus Ruby tech demo virtual girl battles nVidia and ATI competed in during the early 2000s? Sapphire's box art is the only visible legacy I can count on regularly seeing these days and my inner nostalgia addicted pubescent teenager-child is grateful to them.
Surely her bust size and horribly ineffective camouflage scheme will improve my gaming enjoyment. Obviously!
T-minus 13 days until the reviews and Kepler announcement speculation...
i hope that Nvidia maybe will push the price down alittle x:
It's a software (x86 OS) not a hardware problem!
So, basically, you guys don't know but can recommend an OS upgrade. Wow, thanks! Genius! Employees at geeksquad by any chance?
Perhaps I'm crossing the streams here between game software demands on an OS software backbone, but if someone plays a DirectX 9 game on Win7/Vista 32bit, wouldn't the rendering of the DirectX 9 path necessitate the GPU memory mirroring problem that the 7900 series is being feared to perhaps experience?
Or is the GPU memory mirroring not occurring at all, even under DirectX 9 games, due to the Win7/Vista 32bit OS backbone being based on a DirectX 10+ foundation?
damn if i didnt have another big expense atm .ah well, there not going anywhere,
Until you upgrade your OS.
Rarely do they understand that the continuing evolution of technology (which seems at an ever quicker pace these days) is actually creating issues in the opposite direction; that staying on a 32bit OS where things like address space limitations and GPU frame buffer mirroring still exist are going to create much more jarring problems in the near future.
But then, the gaming masses aren't buying $700 3GB GPUs, so I guess it balances out. Doesn't change the fact that soon nVidia and AMD are going to have to put "64bit OS compatible only" stickers on their retail boxes in a few years.