Monday, December 12th 2011
January 9 Launch Date for AMD Radeon HD 7900
Ladies and Gentlemen with graphics card upgrade plans, circle the date January 09, 2012, for this is going to be the day AMD will launch its next generation high-performance graphics cards in the Radeon HD 7900 series, according to reliable market sources DonanimHaber spoke with. On the 9th, AMD is expected to unveil at least two new SKUs in the HD 7900 series, most likely, HD 7970 and HD 7950. These will be based on the new 28 nm "Tahiti" silicon that will use completely redesigned number-crunching machinery, and a very wide memory bus.
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DonanimHaber
146 Comments on January 9 Launch Date for AMD Radeon HD 7900
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"telekonferans sırasında yapılıcak acıklamalar 9 ocak 2012'ye kadar NDA altındadır"
Translated
"until 9 January 2012, during a teleconference yapılıcak description under NDA"
So what do we comprehend? It says what will be unveiled is under NDA until January. Meaning we don't know what exactly they'll unveil.
Yet an another rumor from that site. So... :D
You suffer a case of "I don't always rubbish news as rumor, but when I do, it's always from sources who don't publish in English master-language." :p
On the GPU side of things, I don't see any reason they wouldn't do well given how much they have came back in the past few years.
If there is a release of info then (an NDA lifting with reference to 79xx cards) then you get to to be wrong. If there is no such info, you get to be right about Donanimhaber.
Life is easy when you can wait. :)
You don't know poo about how the industry and markets is structured. If I didn't sound intuitive enough the first time around, I meant you don't know poo about how the IT industry and world IT markets are structured, it wasn't a generalized "you don't know poo about anything" remark, hence I wouldn't call that an insult. You're still stuck in the 1960s~80s when everything was designed and made in the Silicon Valley, and most of it was sold in the US.
Today, manufacturing is done across continents, the industry is everywhere and markets around the world have access to early information, equally credible, and around the same time. In other words, a Turkish website citing its sources is no less credible than California-based website doing the same thing.
Back to topic.
I wonder whether they are aiming for "performance" or "power consumption" improvement, but my money is on neither, since that this is "new arch"
I had hoped for a release this month, but didn't expect card until January, with the dual GPU card in March/April.
That makes it jsut over a year since the launch of the 69xx-series GPUs. New designs every year is almost too fast!
I'm debating between getting the 7950 and waiting for the 7850/70 and crossfire them. If XDR2 actually comes out for the 7900, I'll probably try the 7900 series out of curiosity :p
however this is still AMD/ATI we are talking about, so expect meh.