When is the Radeon 7890 being released?

[cosmicpoofinger]

When is the Radeon 7890 being released and will it be noticeably faster than the 7870?

 

[SieB]

There is no 7890, AMD have just released the 7870 Tahiti LE though, which is a faster 7870 that is closer to the 7950 performance wise. Similar to what Nvidia did with the GTX 560 448 core and the 570.

You can also crossfire the 7870 LE with any of the 79xx series cards as well, so if you already have a 7950/70 and can't quite afford another one the 7870 LE could be a good option.

https://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecial...+Exclusive**+++4+FREE+Games!+?productId=53474

 

[Deejeta]

7890????
Why would you if there were such a thing?
Grab a 7870 or 7950.

 

[grassman]

Damn can't wait to hear how they overclock I doubt very much these cards are even utilizing 2gb of vram at 1080p

 

[Rich_]

They will call it the 7870XT (tahiti) rather than the 7890. It uses the same Tahiti architecture as the 7950 and 7970, but on a 256 bit platform rather than 384.

7770 - 640 stream processors @ 128 bit
7850 - 1024 stream processors @ 256bit
7870 - 1280 stream processors @ 256bit
7870 XT - 1536 stream processors @256bit
7950 - 1792 stream processors @ 384 bit.
7970 - 2048 stream processors @ 384 bit.

You will get equivalent performance boost going from 7850 -> 7870 -> 7870 XT

edit: Correction - These are in fact already on the market selling for 250-260$.


Looks like powercolor just sucker punched saphire with this one. sapphire 7870 ghz is same price as the 7870 tahiti from Pcolor. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131484

 

[cosmicpoofinger]

well I'm going to go for the XT because its a first time build its faster than the regular 7870 and from aria it comes with games witch i don't have many of at the moment.

Thanks for Everyone's help!

 

[Christoi]

On the note of performance, techpowerup reviewed the card a couple weeks ago:
Review link
Overall it's notably faster than the HD7870, a little under 10%.

EDIT: Found two more reviews if you are interested:
Hardware.info
Hardwareheaven.com

 

[grassman]

As expected it's a overclocking monster, Can't wait for tom to get his hands on it those n00bz didn't even mention anything about volts.