Friday, December 16th 2011
AMD Pulls Radeon HD 7970 Launch to December 22
In a surprising move, AMD pulled the launch date of Radeon HD 7970, a high-performance single-GPU graphics card based on the 28 nm Tahiti silicon, up to December 22, 2011; from its earlier launch date of January 09, 2012. The January date was a lot more than speculation, as older presentation slides from AMD to distributors and retailers talked specifically about it. The move to pull December 22 (next Thursday) spices things up in the run up for CES. First, it gives AIB partners full freedom to show off their custom-design graphics cards at the event, along with full details about GPU specifications and clock speeds.
According to a VR-Zone report, Radeon HD 7970 will launch on December 22, 2011, this will be the day you will be able to read reviews of the card (at least the AMD reference design board), online. It will be a limited launch (read: paper-launch), but one can expect "full" retail availability of the card by January 09. Another interesting bit of information is concerning the Radeon HD 7950. This card will be available in non-reference board designs from day one, it will however launch on January 09.
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VR-Zone
According to a VR-Zone report, Radeon HD 7970 will launch on December 22, 2011, this will be the day you will be able to read reviews of the card (at least the AMD reference design board), online. It will be a limited launch (read: paper-launch), but one can expect "full" retail availability of the card by January 09. Another interesting bit of information is concerning the Radeon HD 7950. This card will be available in non-reference board designs from day one, it will however launch on January 09.
36 Comments on AMD Pulls Radeon HD 7970 Launch to December 22
Looking forward to the TPU review...........Hint, hint, hint...........LOL
This should also gauge the RRP and public opinion so they can adjust it. Nice strategic move.
The reviewers will have a very jolly xmas with these and their driver bugs.
Will wait for both AMD and Nvidia reviews on their new lines before I will consider buying a desktop GPU. Will skip the bribed to be correct reviews of both AMD and Nvidia.
I am sure my 1 creative team (500 employees) would love to have decent new i7-IB pc's with AMD7970's xfire / NVidia SLI gpu's in it, wonder what they would get from me.
The boss is feeling generous. Trinity trinity wherefor art thou.
I will stick on the green side and avoid amd drivers, i have to wait a bit
Longer:p a year or so xd
Just one more question [sorry if its a stupid one] are these new amd gpu,s pcie-3? just curious,
and btw,
go nvidia and amd,
so there!!!
ps thanx for this info q.
GPU is new, launching on Dec 22, not sure if PCIe-3, but it doesn't matter.
I know it sounds irrational, and ive heard several say to the contrary, but i have this feeling pcie-3 will have a marked improvement on performance, however, this is purely my personal speculation and nothing more, and as you say, it may not be true, of course one would need equivelant pcie3 slot to take advantage anyhow.
Thanx for your gracious response btw.:)
I doubt we will with these cards either.
It's just looks nice on a specs sheet :toast:
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Similarly to how the 6xxx series wasn't all that much better than the 5xxx series, so the 5xxx series retained their value for quite a while.