Thursday, November 8th 2012
AMD "Tahiti LE" Brand Named Radeon HD 7890
A little earlier this week, it was reported that AMD is working on a new Radeon HD 7800 series graphics card based on the company's 28 nm "Tahiti" silicon. According to a new report, the so-called "Tahiti LE" SKU has been brand named Radeon HD 7890. Although clock speeds, core and memory configurations are still under the wraps, the new SKU, according to the report, is being designed to be 15% faster than GeForce GTX 660 on average, while being similarly priced. AMD is gunning for the crucial X'mas shopping season, when apparently, a few cool people gift high-performance graphics cards.
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55 Comments on AMD "Tahiti LE" Brand Named Radeon HD 7890
Maybe 10% faster than HD7870?:banghead:
Btw ill be 28 that day, i honestly doubt thats anything honestly lol
LG E2242T-BN Black 21.5" 5ms Widescreen LED-Backli...
for ~$150
OT:Great AMD,now i have to reconsider about my future 7870 GHz edition :shadedshu
from current setups,which is 2 7850,still not "enough" to my current display panel.i'm just need little juice to maintain frame rate above 60fps while turning all feature on,so my panel could convert them to 200Hz 3D correctly.
Besides that,i had to savings...my fiancée demand FirePro V5800 for christmas :laugh:
so, you wanna sell your HD7870 cards ? :respect:
i will wait on how this card will performs, it's interesting. They're offering a nice package (price per performance) but one thing that i don't like from this card is being limited :banghead:
I see this the same way, AMD can price aggressively at say $230-240 –AR, (GTX660Ti are like $270 –AR today) you get a 384-Bit card that easily offers strong 1980x/1080p performance. Still also permits AMD to shore-up both the 7870 and 7950 that offer the bundles.
Does it need to be 10% better than a 7870... No you get it and OC it! It just need to better the 7870, while provide more SP’s and bandwidth increasing its "hp" for what's the new mainstream resolutions. While that means Nvidia offers a 192-Bit 2GB card which provides 144Gb/s bandwidth (which to me is barely eke’n by) vs. probably 240 Gb/s of such a Tahiti.
I might start scrounging up some pocket change in anticipation.
This will probably have
1536SP
96TMU (3/4 of 128)
32ROP
1000MHz clock
FP64 1/4 FP32 (hopefully)
2GB 256bit GDDR5 @1500MHz (192GB/s)
Don't know if this came up yet but if this card is a Tahiti LE (79xx gpu) and called a 7890... what can you run with it in Crossfire?
- just another 7890 (or two)?
- 7850/7870?
- 7950/7970?
- nothing- no Crossfire support?
Seems this new naming scheme is going to be a problem :shadedshu
And we all know people who end up buying mid~high range video card are enthusiast like us who actually does a bit of research before purchasing.
Must be that the process has gotten cheaper for AMD and is a way for them to stop production the 7950 soon after the 8000 series is out.
I think this is more of a case of excess materials possibly materials which were supposed to be used for the GPU which was never released.
So AMD have decided to put the materials towards creating the 7890 instead of the GPU which was supposed to compete with the GTX690.