Friday, January 20th 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Clock Speeds Revealed
This month-end, AMD will launch the second product in its high-end Radeon HD 7900 series, the HD 7950, which is based on the same "Tahiti" silicon as the HD 7970, but with a few components disabled. Reliable sources revealed to DonanimHaber the reference clock speeds of the HD 7950. The core of the HD 7950 will be clocked at 800 MHz, and the memory at 1250 MHz (actual), 5.00 GHz (GDDR5 effective). This, compared to the 925 MHz (core), 1375 MHz (memory actual)/ 5.50 GHz (memory effective) clock speeds of the HD 7970. The HD 7950 will hence be a good overclocker considering the speeds it comes with, there is scope for quite a few factory-OC models from AIBs. In related news, DonanimHaber notes that the HD 7950 on average will be US $100-150 cheaper than the HD 7970 (US $400-$450).
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DonanimHaber
43 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 7950 Clock Speeds Revealed
Simple unlock via driver & you got yourself a 9700 Pro but £100 cheaper!
The ATI 9500 is one of the main reasons why the techPowerup web site & forum exists!!
EDIT: There's also more HD6950 than HD6850/70s and that's a first time in history where high-end is above mid-range afaik, so clearly enough people must have thought the HD6950 was more appealing (than other AMD cards), for whatever reasons. Unlockability might be one of them, but it's imposible to tell to what extent.
* I mean there's significantly more GTX480s despite only being in the market for a few months and all its problems and bad press.
invalidating the justification for the 7970's high price by forcing nvidia to lower the 580's price...
very smart move amd :rolleyes:
perf/$ would be better with a 6970 ... only downside i see is the power consumption ...
don't get me wrong, as a consumer i actually want that.
but i wouldn't begrugde amd very much having a larger window of a higher margin before they have to buckle, to actually make some surplus money for once...
they could end up having more resources, which in the long run could allow them to make decent cpus again...well, if this would not only be limited to that one product...
If I was in the market for a GPU right now I wouldn't buy a 580 even at 450 USD
the 7970 is 40% - 45% faster then the 6970 ... and thats not getting into the OCs.
So given that the 7970 has 33% more shaders than 6970 and is only 30% faster than the 6970... :rolleyes:
I assumed, with less shaders and less clock speeds, that it'll be only 10-15% faster ... I might be wrong here tho ... just assuming with the help of whats available ... ;)