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ATI 7900
CalmOceans
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in Hardware
A picture showed up from somewhere, looks like a huge card, hope there will be a smaller 7800.
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The source for the pic was a forum post on beyond3d http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1604484&postcount=1145
Not sure whether i believe it's the 7970 tbh, seems to be the theory being floated around on other sites. 78** or 7950 methinks.
Ayup, kind of weird someone on a forum just randomly posted a picture lol.
Here is another that just came out:
it also shows an army of capacitor, so it prolly need a lot of power
ATI flagship since the 5870 have tended to have a more robust cooling device. This one doesn't have a backplate which helps support the extralong video cards. If it is part of the 7xxx series, its probably a 7800 not a 7900.
That's no 7800 series. Count the memory chips. I see twelve of them. You know what that means, don't you?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580/4
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_8800_GTX_OC/4.html
Only two GPU chips have ever been paired with twelve memory chips on the same side of the board. You know what they had in common? 384-bit memory bus. AMD hasn't gone above 256-bit since R600 (Radeon HD 2900 series).
If the picture is real, that's a monster card, and you only even consider doing that for the top of the line.
i sure hope it is still the ati team cooking up the cards cause sadly when amd team is around they always thend to say oh this isnt really important isnt it etc!we saw how it ended for bulldozer.will be a good proc in 3 years but right now intel is default.and at the snail pace amd is going intel will catch amd gpu soon!too manyt chief and no enough in dian at amd.i said it in the past.amd LISTEN to ati!please for once amd stop being stuborn
I don't think that's actually any bigger than the 6970 is. The 79xx is rumored to have a 384-bit memory bus btw so that is definitely in line with the rumor.
Nice pic ! I should buy ATI 7900 now!
Hubpages
They're now AMD cards, no longer ATI
You can go buy a Radeon 7500 right now.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/1028342302B/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_campaign=googlebase
It's rather old, though. ATI didn't go over 7500 before they jumped to the 8000 series.
/facepalm