Saturday, April 21st 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970M Arrives on 24th
The next "AMD Tuesday" is the coming one, on which the company plans to launch Radeon HD 7970M, its next high-end discrete GPU for notebooks. Codenamed "Thames", the HD 7970M will be based on the 28 nm "Pitcairn" silicon, on which desktop Radeon HD 7800 series, is also based. When launched, the HD 7970M could become the fastest notebook discrete GPU, since NVIDIA's fastest discrete notebook GPU, and the GeForce GTX 675M are based on previous-generation 40 nm GF114, over which Pitcairn already established a performance lead, in the desktop front. We are hearing that notebook vendors already have their designs based on this chip ready in the pipeline.
Source:
VR-Zone
18 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 7970M Arrives on 24th
Now just give us a Piledriver which can compete with Ivy Bridge i5's and they can get things back in gear again hopefully.
ASUS.
I'll have my current laptop (HP ENVY 17 3D-3000) for the same with new Ivy Bridge and this. Should have waited a bit, lol.
Back on topic
I do agree with whoever pointed out that gaming laptops are a bit useless if you have the luxury of a desktop, but for kids in college and whatnot this is great news.
I have one from 7-8 years ago with a P4 3.4 EE Gallatin Core (Northwood Extreme) 865PE Chipset 2 GB PC3200 DDR, 100 GB HD 7200, ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 256 and it was definitly on par with my desktop machine with a higher framebuffer