14 DAY TRIAL // The AMD Radeon HD 7950, the second board in the 7000 series, has yet to make its appearance in official capacity, but its specifications did get leaked a while ago and have now been confirmed as well.
Granted, the confirmation is just as unofficial as the previous report on the matter, but since GPU-Z was involved, they should be more or less accurate.
It should be noted, though, that it wasn't the reference board that got analyzed by the application.
The screenshot included the ASUS GPU Tweak tool and the Republic of Gamers-themed GPU-Z, but it is suggested that the video card itself belongs to either PowerColor or HIS.
Either way, the device ID fits the one that the Radeon HD 7950 was supposedly associated with, so the odds are high that the numbers are genuine.
The 28nm-based GPU apparently works at 880 MHz, which is quite a bit above the previously reported 800 MHz.
Thus, either the initial number was wrong or this is a factory-overclocked version of the video adapter.
Moving on, the 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM operate at 5.0 GHz and utilize a memory interface of 384 bits.
All in all, the board has a bandwidth of 240 GB/s, quite impressive really, especially since this isn't even the top of the line (the Radeon HD 7970 has that honor).
Other specifications revealed by the screenshot include 32 ROPs, 112 TMUs and 1,792 stream processors (28 GCN compute units / CUs are active).
Finally, it should be mentioned that Advanced Micro Devices chose to allow its manufacturing partners the liberty of customizing the 7950 right off the bat.
In other words, as soon as the formal release is made, there will be all sorts of versions made public, factory-overclocked or otherwise and each equipped with a different cooling solution, not to mention special components in some cases.