Tuesday, March 6th 2012
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Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 7970 with 6GB Memory Showcased
The fact that Sapphire has been working on a Radeon HD 7970 graphics card with an obscene 6 GB of memory has been known since the end of 2011. The said card, the Sapphire Toxic HD 7970 6GB, has already taken shape, and was spotted running at CeBIT. Such as it is, AMD utilizes 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips in numbers of 12 to achieve 3 GB of memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface, on its HD 7970. Higher density GDDR5 chips are not available, at least not in bulk. So the only way Sapphire is doing 6 GB is by piggy-backing two 2 Gbit chips across 32-bit wide paths, each. As a result, these cards have memory chips on both sides of the PCB, obverse and reverse, and require a metal back-plate to keep the chips on the reverse side cool. The only reason we see consumers needing 6 GB of video memory today, is multi-monitor gaming. Even there, the impact of the increase to 6 GB memory (from 3 GB) is debatable.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
34 Comments on Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 7970 with 6GB Memory Showcased
You Think Ultimate would be the highest end model. Oh well...
I want reviews of this compared to the High End 3GB Model with Mature Drivers.
Stop trolling my reply and instead say something useful as to why you think it isn't pointless, and then I will give you a reply as to why I think it is pointless. :slap:
well for folding operations, number crunching per se it does give a lil more, Plus the extra frame buffer can have positive performance effect as to storing pixels/textures/polygons for feeding to the GPU, course GPU is what drives the output.
So whats your take?
6 monitor eyefinity maybe? I cant imagine even 7680x1600 uses more than 3GB(?).
In my opinion this card has been created for 3 types of people.
1. Benchmarkers such as yourself.
2. People who realize that nothing they will ever encounter will need that much gpu memory and just want a bigger e-penis.
3. People who have no idea about gpu memory but think buying a card with 6GBs will be the only way to run their games at max settings.
It makes me happy that you fall in to the 1st of the 3 I mentioned. :toast: