With the end of the year drawing nigh, and as CES 2012 approaches, the web somehow gets a hold of more and more info on what NVIDIA, Intel and, in this case, AMD has planned. This isn't more information about what exactly AMD's decision to
no longer compete with Intel implies.
Instead, some details on one of the Radeon HD graphics products have emerged.
We already wrote about a Tahiti HD 7900 and how it was
caught on photo working in a dual-card crossfire setup.
Now, a report offers something on the card, or cards, that will reach the market soon after the Tahiti does.
Codenamed Pitcairn, the Radeon HD 7800 series board, or boards since there are two of them, will show up in February next year (2012).
More precisely, Pitcairn will be formally unleashed during the week of February 20, right after the Chinese New Year.
The two cards are probably going to bear the names of Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon HD 7870.
The former will be priced at $199 (148.69 Euro) while the latter will sell for $299 (223.41 Euro).
For the sake of comparison, these are the same price points of the similarly endowed Radeon HD 4800 graphics cards.
All things considered, Advanced Micro Devices is doing its best to preserve the rhythm of graphics card releases, where new products are periodically launched that have the same prices as the ones they replace but better overall performance.
NVIDIA will be doing something similar, so there is bound to be just as much, if not more, competition next year.
After Pitcairn, AMD may launch a new dual-GPU flagship to replace the Radeon DH 6990, during CeBIT, in March.
Logic suggests the name of HD 7990, but that is still unconfirmed, just like the rest of this report for that matter.
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