14 DAY TRIAL // AMD has reportedly decided to postpone the launch of their second graphics card from the Radeon HD 7900 series, namely the HD 7950, to the first week of February as a response to some concerns expressed by media outlets.
As Guru3D reported just yesterday, during the recent launch of the AMD Radeon HD 7970, a number of media outlets expressed varying levels of concern regarding the separation of the launch and market availability of the card.
In order to avoid the same concerns with the Radeon HD 7950, AMD has decided to postpone the launch of the graphics card to the first week of February, said the same publication.
AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 is based on the same Tahiti GPU as that used for the HD 7970, but this comes with four of the core’s Compute Units disabled to turn it into the Tahiti Pro.
The end result is a graphics card that includes a total of 1792 stream processors (2048 in the HD 7970), 112 texture units, 32 ROP units and the same 384-bit wide bus of its elder brother.
The amount of memory installed also wasn’t modified so we are talking about the same 3GB of GDDR5 video buffer which has an operating speed of 1.25GHz (5GHz data rate). The Tahiti Pro GPU is clocked at 900MHz.
The power consumption figures of the graphics card are not yet available, but this will feature the same ZeroCore technology as the HD 7970 that can completely turns off the card when the system is in idle with the monitor shut down.
Other features include support for one DVI, one HDMI and two mini-DisplayPort video outputs as well as PCI Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1 compatibility.
Despite the presumed delay of the Radeon HD 7950, availability of the HD 7970 has not changed and the card will be available starting January 9.