Thursday, January 26th 2012
Multiple Radeon HD 7950 Cards Listed in Europe
Not to be outdone by their US-based brethren, several European stores have jumped the gun and put up for pre-order the (still not officially announced) Radeon HD 7950 aka AMD's second 28 nm-powered graphics card. The listings in Europe reveal three HD 7950s, two that seem to be based on AMD's reference design (one from XFX, one only carrying the AMD brand) and a custom model coming from Gigabyte.
All three cards feature DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.2 support, 1792 Stream Processors, a 384-bit memory interface, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM clocked at 5000 MHz, CrossFireX support, and include four display outputs - DVI x 1, HDMI x 1, mini DisplayPort x 2. The 'stock' models have a GPU clock of 800 MHz while Gigabyte's card (GV-R795W3-3GD) is listed with a core clock of 900 MHz (although it may be a typo). The GV-R795W3-3GD also has a blue PCB and a dual-slot, triple-fan (WindForce style) cooler.
The Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 is priced at 2053 PLN (Polish Zloty) which equals to about 635.6 USD / 483.6 Euro, XFX's model costs 419 Euro, while the AMD-branded card is £435 (519 Euro).
All three cards feature DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.2 support, 1792 Stream Processors, a 384-bit memory interface, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM clocked at 5000 MHz, CrossFireX support, and include four display outputs - DVI x 1, HDMI x 1, mini DisplayPort x 2. The 'stock' models have a GPU clock of 800 MHz while Gigabyte's card (GV-R795W3-3GD) is listed with a core clock of 900 MHz (although it may be a typo). The GV-R795W3-3GD also has a blue PCB and a dual-slot, triple-fan (WindForce style) cooler.
17 Comments on Multiple Radeon HD 7950 Cards Listed in Europe
All I can say is that it is WAY overpriced imo.
7950 costs 450 euros while I can find a 7970 for 460 euros, funny enough :D
EDIT: www.lsdistribuzione.it/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=10620&category_id=86&option=com_virtuemart&vmcchk=1&Itemid=60
this retailer smoked something, 458 euros rofl.
This to not say that 450-500 € for a GPU is expensive, because let's say it high end has always been priced so high, hence the "high end", but such price should be carried on the next gen if there is atleast a 70-80% out of the box increase, not counting oc.
this HD 7950 is better than gtx 580 and it costs more - thx AMD.
Good call
:D