Monday, February 18th 2013
New Radeon HD 7000 Series Products in 1H-2013
Over the last weekend, AMD hosted a teleconference with the press in which it charted out its strategy for 2013. Older reports led us to believe that the company's next-generation GPU lineup won't launch any time before Q4, but the press overlooked another possibility, that AMD could make additions to its existing HD 7000 series product family, before Q4.
The current Radeon HD 7000 appears "complete," due to the fact that there are products covering nearly every competitive price point. With the introduction of the GeForce GTX Titan, NVIDIA could gain two products in the price-range of $900-$1200, the other being GTX 690. AMD's various board partners, lead by TUL-affiliated ones, and HIS, launched the HD 7990 around the $800 mark, and ASUS topped things up with the Republic of Gamers ARES II at an unreal $1,600 point, which AMD claims is the fastest graphics card money can buy.
AMD will adopt a three-pronged approach to the first three quarters of 2013:
The current Radeon HD 7000 appears "complete," due to the fact that there are products covering nearly every competitive price point. With the introduction of the GeForce GTX Titan, NVIDIA could gain two products in the price-range of $900-$1200, the other being GTX 690. AMD's various board partners, lead by TUL-affiliated ones, and HIS, launched the HD 7990 around the $800 mark, and ASUS topped things up with the Republic of Gamers ARES II at an unreal $1,600 point, which AMD claims is the fastest graphics card money can buy.
AMD will adopt a three-pronged approach to the first three quarters of 2013:
- Market its existing performance-thru-extreme products with the Never Settle Reloaded game bundle that ships graphics cards with two to eight recently-launched AAA game titles, including Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider 2013, and DmC Devil May Cry
- Keep working on performance improvements on existing products with driver updates. New WHQL-signed drivers are release on a monthly to bi-monthly basis, with multiple beta releases in between
- Make "robust roadmap additions to the existing Radeon HD 7000 lineup" within the first half of 2013 (by the end of June).
26 Comments on New Radeon HD 7000 Series Products in 1H-2013
Enter the Radeon HD7750 Ghz Edition and 7850 Ghz Edition :D
Joking aside, maybe they will use their real GPU dynamic overclocking technology they've been working on to the existing HD7000 SKUs.
not bad for $200
^ why AMD wins
I do believe there are significant improvements to be done to the drivers yet.
FYI 660ti is faster and same price as the 7950.
PS. oh, and good luck with your worthless AMD drivers. ^why Nvidia wins
On the other hand, the enthusiasm about the oc'ed 7950 being faster than the stock gtx680
is simply to point out the capabilities of this $200 card against a stock gtx680. He could have said HD7970 instead, would've been the same...
Very rare I hear the same sort of trash talk from AMD fanboys on such a juvenile scale.
Anyway I want to see a 7777 GPU.
That said, to put forward a sensible argument in place of the troll AMD-bashing, I'm still unconvinced regarding the microstuttering thing and AMD's drivers (see Techreport).
I strongly believe that the issue described in Techreport is a problem of the BOOST edition cards with their stupid badly designed system just to have something similar to nVidia's offering.
If i could find my post from 2011/12 I stated way back then I wanted a 'daddy' kepler but it never got made. So i got one then two 7970's which are quite frankly overkill even at 2560x1440.
It's for that reason AMD have no need to release again. Likewise, Titan is being released for Kudos and for the symbolic performance crown. Nvidia can tinker with gk104 some more and AMD can tweak drivers. Nobody loses.
I'd love a 7730 or something like that though. Make it <$65.