AMD Drops Prices On HD 7800 & HD 7900 Series Graphics Cards

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Slimebeast said:

zarx said:

Well they are beginning ramp up on Sea Islands soon anyway, as they a due Q1 next year. The design was apparently recently finalised and full production will start in Q4.

So the X720 will have a crippled and modified version of that GPU? I hope they found ways to heavily decrease power consumption despite being on the same 28nm process.

1.2 x Compute power of the 7970 doesn't sound revolutionizing though. Not that I expected a revolution, but I was still hoping...

I'm not sure if that1.2 x Compute power is for games or for programs using GPGPU.

Although if that 1.2 is for games, that would still means a 20% increase over the 7970. Not spectacular but not bad taking into consideration that it will still be made using the 28nm fab process.