Tuesday, December 13th 2011
Radeon HD 7900 to Introduce Eyefinity 3D, HD 7970 European Pricing Surfaces
Reliable sources among AMD add-in board partners told DonanimHaber that the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 7900 series will introduce a new feature that other SKUs based on Southern Islands GPUs could also include. It's called Eyefinity 3D, and as the name might suggest, it's the next major update to Eyefinity, a technology that lets you span a single display head across up to six physical displays, and gives you the ability to use your available physical displays to accommodate multiple such display heads.
Eyefinity 3D adds support for 3D-optimized (120 Hz) displays, and lets you create large stereoscopic 3D display heads using a number of physical 3D displays. The technology behind this might not be as simple as it sounds, because the driver has to take into account the viewing angles of the displays in perspective to the user (as entered by the user), and calibrate the 3D image output. The same sources also hinted about the pricing of Radeon HD 7970.
AMD's next generation "Tahiti" is shaping up to be more of a monolithic high-end GPU than a high-performance GPU. Hence, single-GPU graphics cards based on it are expected to be expensive. An add-in board (AIB) partner told DonanimHaber that the European pricing of the HD 7970 will be in the range of 539-549 Euro, while its FOB price will be 500-510 Euro.
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DonanimHaber
Eyefinity 3D adds support for 3D-optimized (120 Hz) displays, and lets you create large stereoscopic 3D display heads using a number of physical 3D displays. The technology behind this might not be as simple as it sounds, because the driver has to take into account the viewing angles of the displays in perspective to the user (as entered by the user), and calibrate the 3D image output. The same sources also hinted about the pricing of Radeon HD 7970.
AMD's next generation "Tahiti" is shaping up to be more of a monolithic high-end GPU than a high-performance GPU. Hence, single-GPU graphics cards based on it are expected to be expensive. An add-in board (AIB) partner told DonanimHaber that the European pricing of the HD 7970 will be in the range of 539-549 Euro, while its FOB price will be 500-510 Euro.
38 Comments on Radeon HD 7900 to Introduce Eyefinity 3D, HD 7970 European Pricing Surfaces
Jesus christ! why do i have to suffer like this every year?! now its all over again
Bout the 3D, AMD got to decide if they are going all the way in or not doing this at all IMO, becuase otherwise
i might just prefer NVIDIA's solution
The 5870 was just over $500 when it first came out
AMD can count me right out of that until the prices get a bit more realistic.
And even if it did retail at around €350 (or less), the entire practical implications of it at the moment as far as I am concerned would mean turning up shadows on BF3 from High to Ultra, and also getting a bit of conventional FSAA.
Could I justify it....no....not really, but definitely not at those prices.your thinking of Australian prices m8....and u guys get completely ripped off.
as for me personally - with 2 6970s in the rig, im probably gonna be skipping 7xxx series alltogther unless its a serious major jump in performance. otherwise I dont really need that kind of power.
Amd are charging a little more this time but its well within the reasonable price for a graphics card.
The 580's were like $699 when they came out (where I live)At the time our dollar was only like 70 cents, now its around the same as the US dollar so things have improved. You can get a 6970 for like $320 now which is about the same as the US.
Theres other things to take into account to like the minimum wage is Australia is like $14/hour where the US is like $6/hour so its not too bad really.
Anyway its kind of a good sign that AMD are charging more nvidia prices, it means the cards are very good.
If a new card has a cheap price, you know it aint going to be good.
I personally find E500 way too much for a graphics card, especially considering that there is no game whatsoever that would truly need it. Until concoles stop slowing down PC gaming, there isn't much need for such extreme hardware.
I'd rather buy a 24inch IPS screen from ASUS or Dell for -+ 450, would be a better investment overall and can also be used outside gaming, especially if you like toying around with web design and similar things.
Also, inb4 John Doe.
Or are they the same card I'm slightly confused by the "a technology that lets you span a single display head across up to six physical displays"
One thing for sure, if single card performance increases I'm all for it, I won't adopt multi-gpu solutions with more than 2 GPUs anymore... it just isn't worth it, the increase in FPS is good but the times it's going to work is another side of the story :ohwell:
Of course if they start selling less cards the prices are going to go up too..............
many members on the forum sport dual 6950 & 6970 AMD cards -- are they on a 'tight budget' too??
a 6970 is at least a months salary to some. I remember back in the day when i used to do about 60hrs+ a week at work. I had about £400-500 per month that i could play with after all the other bills and expenditures had been payed.
Plain and simple boys. More horsepower is ALWAYS better. 500 dollars is very reasonable for a new video card in my humble opinion. I never spend less than 400 bux when I upgrade.
Let me tell you something Mr.Ten I don't by nvidia because I don't like their TV support and I don't particularly like their coloring in games. I also don't like the huge amount of power they require or the heat they produce. I have been on both sides of the fence and for the last purchase ATI had the better options.
The last Nvidia card I owned was the 285. One of the best cards they ever made until their 5xx series which are quite good I admit. There is absolutely nothing wrong with ATI cards and I don't buy them because of a "budget" I buy them because I like them.