That's it, recently the sites around the world have poured a steady stream of information on theHard: First tests of Radeon 7970 Radeon 7970, the new “flagship” of the range of AMD GPUs.
Against all odds, AMD has decided to lift the NDA on his new baby on December 22, when it was originally intended to January 9, 2012. However, the short and coupons outstanding, the cards will be available for their part of that around January 9.
Radeon 7970
No new card under our trees then, but take advantage of it to take a look in more detail on recent additions to this card!
In addition to changing the manufacturing process-from 40 to 28nm, it will be noted on the increase in the number of “stream processors” which are to map the “heart” of the chip, moving from a respectable 1536 has an amazing 2048 , which increases by about 35% raw computing power of the card.
If the fill rate increases slightly, the memory bandwidth jumped up to 264GB / s thanks to the adoption of a 384-bit memory bus, such as leaks from last week suggest.
A version with 1768 Stream processors, GPU frequencies with still undefined, and she also accompanied GDDR5 is expected in the sweet name of Radeon 7950.
Finally, the frequency of the GPU also increased up to 925MHz, and our friends overclockers
And while only using the Catalyst Control Center, so without changing tensions. It will be possible to go further with software packages such as MSI Afterburner.
It should be noted that according to them, the TDP has increased by only 10W during operation, from 210 to 220W.
Another specificity of the Radeon 7900: Mode “ZeroCore.”
The Zero Core is very simple: when your PC is idle, and the card is no activity, it cuts the display on your screen, and disappears, leaving only power that the minimum so that it is recognized by Windows. Even the fans intersect. From what I read, the first time it's pretty scary when you least expect it, for against the energy savings are waiting for you since the card does not consume more than 3W in this swtor credits state or as a SSD charge.se rejoice to know that AMD certifies that the cards can easily exceed the Gigahertz.