Monday, March 19th 2012
AMD Launches Graphics Triple Play: 3 GPUs in 3 Months, Availability of HD 7800 Series
AMD today reached a major milestone in the graphics industry with worldwide availability of its full line of next generation AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in less than three months. Starting in December, AMD launched the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, followed in February by the AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series and completed today with availability of the AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series graphics cards.
"Bringing the first 28nm graphics cards to market in December spurred us to continue pushing the boundaries, product after product, culminating with today's product availability," said Zvika Greenstein, director of product management, GPU Division, AMD. "Look at our feature set: Graphics Core Next, AMD Eyefinity 2.0, AMD PowerTune, AMD ZeroCore Power technologies and of course our GHz Edition graphics cards - it is without doubt that AMD stands alone in the graphics industry."
The AMD Radeon HD 7970, the world's fastest and most advanced single GPU, unleashed AMD's revolutionary Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and packed in support for PCI Express 3.0.1, 5 The momentum continued in January with the arrival of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU and in February, with the AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, including the first graphics card to ever break the 1 GHz barrier, the AMD Radeon HD 7770. With today's availability of the AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series, packed with 2GB of GDDR5 memory for serious gaming, AMD is leading the way-unrivaled in providing customers with a full lineup of next-generation graphics cards.
Since the launch cycle began, AMD has received over 200 of the industry's most coveted product review awards and praise from some of industry's leading reviewers. Currently over 60 SKUs of the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series product line featuring custom cooling solutions and overclocked engines are available to customers worldwide.
Learn more about the 7900 Series, 7800 Series, 7700 Series.
"Bringing the first 28nm graphics cards to market in December spurred us to continue pushing the boundaries, product after product, culminating with today's product availability," said Zvika Greenstein, director of product management, GPU Division, AMD. "Look at our feature set: Graphics Core Next, AMD Eyefinity 2.0, AMD PowerTune, AMD ZeroCore Power technologies and of course our GHz Edition graphics cards - it is without doubt that AMD stands alone in the graphics industry."
Since the launch cycle began, AMD has received over 200 of the industry's most coveted product review awards and praise from some of industry's leading reviewers. Currently over 60 SKUs of the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series product line featuring custom cooling solutions and overclocked engines are available to customers worldwide.
Learn more about the 7900 Series, 7800 Series, 7700 Series.
26 Comments on AMD Launches Graphics Triple Play: 3 GPUs in 3 Months, Availability of HD 7800 Series
I just hope they can figure this all out with drivers rather than it turning out to be faulty hardware. That's already been the case with some of the Asus cards, though that's their fault not AMDs.
#NoHate
Becuase seriously, what's the point with this news post besides telling everybody "hey, HD7000 series are here in case you haven't noticed".
And the dull "1Ghz" marketing thing. MYGAWD this has to be stopped. Alright we get it, you got a card that works on 1Ghz besides the fact that it costs like an HD6870 and performs like an HD6790.
And i'm not mad at bta or something, just some rage over AMD.
it might happen with 7770, who knows.. but going by current prices.. 7770(1GB) costs around 160$ and 7850(2GB) is around 260$.. adding another 1GB of RAM to 7770 could drive the price to 200$+... which might not find many takers given the price of 7850..
i am not denying the possibility of a niche card but it might take some time..
...Oh well, I'll just wait on the 8870 triple-fan quad-slot.
I would love to see more links and proof of these problems, and I am not asking for it because I am calling you out or anything, but to further educate my self on these AMD issues. Again, I have had 0 of these; therefore, I guess I should feel lucky huh. :toast:
...and the replacement card zero issues.
Maybe brand new builds will go for them to get the power consumption savings, but for anyone who already has a decent card, there is no path to upgrade in the mid range segment. Sure you can go the uber high end route, but not that many people have $550 plus tax and shipping lying around.
Same can be said for the new Gtx series.
Only enthusiasts, and benchers really need the latest and greatest because they are addicts.
I got a XFX 6750 that was perfect exept when came out of sleep it would artifact like crazy. Did all the stuff like you did for drivers, clean reinstalls and it did it consistantly. Changing nothing on drivers just pull that card and went to 4650 I had lying around... and no problem, pulled a 6790 out of something and tried it... right out of sleep again. Put back in the XFX 6750 right back to having the problem; RMA to Egg and that new card did the same thing! Which I would consider highly illogical. After more futzing with drivers again, and cards that would wake fine, I bought a Diamond (locally) switched cards and nothing else... and never had a issue since.