The new Radeon HD 7970 marks the launch of AMD’s next generation video cards. The Radeon HD 7970 represents the fastest single-GPU video card from AMD with a new architecture. We will evaluate gameplay performance and compare it to the previous generation, as well as the competition, in single-display and Eyefinity resolutions.

AMD’s much anticipated next generation GPU series is finally here, today we can reveal to you that AMD is going to have a Radeon HD 7000 series of GPUs. The Radeon HD 7000 series of GPUs will be the successor to the Radeon HD 6000 series, offering a new architecture, new specifications, more features and hopefully better performance at the respective price points.

While a whole slew of Radeon HD 7000 GPUs will be coming, they aren’t all being launched yet. In fact, we only have official specifications on one of AMD’s new 7000 series GPUs, the high-end fastest single-GPU video card, the new AMD Radeon HD 7970. This, right now, is the only video card we have information on, and have in hand to perform gameplay performance testing with. The AMD Radeon HD 7970 is the video card that is being launched today. All of the other Radeon HD 7000 series based video cards will be launched at later undisclosed dates in 2012. Expect to see the next one down the branch released sometime in January 2012.

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