28nm Graphics Cards

[naut]

I dunno if you guys have seen much of this, but AMD's 7000 series is looking pretty swanky. And Nvidea's that will follow fairly soon after will also be on 28nm architecture.

AMD Line-up:

HD7970 ( Tahiti XT )
Core's 2048 operate at 1GHz clock
3GB of GDDR5 memory at 5.5GHz
Memory Bandwidth 264GB/s
Memory Bus Width 384-bits
Texture Units 128
ROPs 64
Manufacturing Process TSMC 28nm
Price $449

HD7950 ( Tahiti Pro )
Core's 1920 operate at 900MHz clock
3GB of GDDR5 memory at 5.0GHz
Memory Bandwidth 240GB/s
Memory Bus Width 384-bits
Texture Units 120
ROPs 60
Manufacturing Process TSMC 28nm
Price $349

HD7990 ( New Zealand ) HD7970 X2 "March Realease"
6GB of GDDR5 memory at 5.5GHz
Price $699


I am pretty certain my next upgrade will be a 7970. I'm pretty excited. Y'all?

[Furunculus]

yes, i have seen the specs for the 79xx series and i think i'm getting one.

blender 2.6.x running cycles off the gpu via OpenCL sounds magnificient, particularly if they memory virtualisation comes true so we are not shackled to the 3GB limit.

[SkySonata]

Got my 7970 yesterday.

VERY powerful. Chews up Witcher 2 on ultra and on ubersampling. derlicioussss

Kinda loud too. Gonna need a new PSU (my 700W isn't 80+ bronze and I will need one when overclocking).

[Lemur]

Daddy want.

[Furunculus]

i want too, but even i balk at paying £480 for a graphics card!

[naut]

i want too, but even i balk at paying £480 for a graphics card!

Yep. The current price range is far too much.