Thursday, December 8th 2011
AMD Radeon HD 7900 ''Tahiti'' Pictured, 384-bit Memory Bus Confirmed?
A Beyond3D forum member posted a mysterious picture of two graphics cards that could very well be engineering samples of AMD's true next-generation Radeon HD 7900 "Tahiti" graphics cards. The final products most probably won't look like these, with a bare red PCB, but it does look like the reference cooler design is ready. A more important feature in that picture is the spotting of traces for at least 11 memory chips, the 12th one (not highlighted) is apparently near the PCIe slot interface. The presence of 12 memory chips gives rumors of Tahiti featuring a 384-bit wide memory interface a shot in the arm. This will be the first AMD GPU in over 5 years to feature a memory bus wider than 256-bit. The R600 Radeon HD 2900 GPU featured a 512-bit GDDR4-capable memory interface.
Sources:
Beyond3D Forums, VR-Zone
117 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 7900 ''Tahiti'' Pictured, 384-bit Memory Bus Confirmed?
Can see the one closest to the edge could be an 8 pin now, on the other card looks like it's the other way round XD
That might send Kepler packing... :nutkick:
Back to topic.
How long do you think these are they look like they are slightly longer than that M/B so maybe 9.5 -10"?
Lets play a game name those other parts we have
ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s...
SanDisk Ultra SDSSDH-120G-G25 2.5" 120GB SATA II I...
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX850 V2 850W ATX12V v2....
Just can't figure out the ram or that case maybe a Corsair Obsidian Series 650D (CC650DW-1) Black Ste... hard to tell basing it off a couple screws I can see.
so this is not a high end part. If it is, than there will be no xdr2 vram
Would be a waste to have ram on the back side, no cooling for it and only gpu on front under the cooling system.
If they follow the same as with the mGPU's then the top of the range gaming ones has xdr memory in either 2GB/4GB versions.
What's really toasty is the GPU and VRMs
i think it looks like they're goin back to a 5XXX style design.....LOVE IT
8-pin might be for pushing clocks? Looks power hungry but that won't stop me from buying it.