Radeon HD 7000:  HD 7790 |  HD 7850 |  HD 7870 |  HD 7870 XT |  HD 7950 |  HD 7970 |  HD 7990 |  Radeon HD 8000:  HD 8750 |  HD 8770 |  HD 8850 |  HD 8870 |  HD 8950 |  HD 8970 |  HD 8990 
GeForce 600:  GTX 650 Ti Boost  |  GTX 660  |  GTX 660 Ti  |  GTX 670  |  GTX 680 |  GTX 690 |  Titan: GTX TITAN |  GeForce 700:  GTX 760  |  GTX 760 Ti  |  GTX 770  |  GTX 780 |  GTX 790 

AMD Radeon HD 8970 Specification

    GPU

    Manufacturer: AMD

    Specs status: Rumored

    GPU Series: Radeon HD 8900

    GPU Model: Curacao XT

    Fabrication Process: 28nm

    Compute Units:

    Stream Processors: 2560

    TMUs: 160

    ROPs: 48

    CARD

    Dimensions (inches): – / – / Dual-slot

    Display Outputs:

    SUPPORT

    Bus Support: PCI-E 3.0 x16

    DirectX Support: 11.1

    OpenGL Support: 4.2

    CLOCKS

    Core Clock: 1100 MHz

    Boost Clock: 1150 MHz

    Memory Clock: 1600 MHz

    Effective Memory Clock: 6400 MHz

    MEMORY

    Memory Size: 3072 MB

    Memory Type: GDDR5

    Memory Bus Type: 384-bit

    Memory Bandwidth: 307 GB/sec

    POWER

    Power Draw 250 W / – W

    Min Required PSU: 550 W

    Power Connectors: 1 x 8-pin / 1 x 6-pin

    Temperature: – C / – C / – C

    Noise Level: – dBA / – dBA

    PERFORMANCE

    3DMark11 Score

    3DMark Vantage

    RELEASE

    Release Date: Q1 2013

    Launch Price:

    Eurocom Panther Radeon HD 8970M CrossFireX (7)

    Eurocom Adds AMD Radeon HD 8970M CrossFireX to Panther Series

    Eurocom adds the World’s Fastest AMD Radeon HD8970M CrossFireX graphics to the World’s Fastest dual graphics EUROCOM Panther series of High Performance Laptops. Are you ready for CrossFireX with 8GB DDR5 and 2560 Cores? Eurocom is adding the AMD Radeon HD 8970M in CrossFireX, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card, to the Panther series of [...]

    HD 8970M

    AMD Announces Radeon HD 8970M

    AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card. The AMD Radeon HD 8970M graphics processing unit (GPU) delivers the best mobile gaming experience imaginable to gamers, powered by AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. “Today’s gaming notebooks need a graphics card that is fast, powerful and energy-efficient,” said [...]

    NVIDIA Geforce GTX 780M

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M On Sale, New AMD Radeon HD 8970M Benchmark

    This week is surely dominated by mobile graphics cards news. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M on sale Following the recent news about the GeForce GTX 780M, we have a first unit being sold separately. A qualification sample, which passed a 3DMark testing has been listed on ebay. For a price of $1,499.95 you have the opportunity [...]

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 3DMark

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Performance Leaked, GTX 760M Unveiled

    NVIDIA’s new mobile flagship has been finally spotted running on a laptop. The GeForce GTX 780M, presumably featuring a GK104 GPU, offers a 20% performance increase over its predecessor — GTX 680M. However the GTX 680M is not the fastest mobile Kepler out of the pack, there’s the GTX 680MX, which is supposedly using the [...]

    AMD Radeon HD 8970 CPU-Z (real)

    (Update) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and AMD Radeon HD 8970 Spotted in CPU-Z Database

    Guys over at OCaholic are monitoring the database of validated entries from CPU-Z. This way they not only discovered multiple Z87 motherboards, but also two new graphics cards, which happen to be the upcoming flagships of both main manufacturers. GeForce GTX 780 and Radeon HD 8970 Believe it or not, they also found the AMD [...]

    MSI GX70 G Series (2)

    AMD Presents Radeon HD 8970M Benchmarks

    Back in December, AMD announced its Radeon HD 8000M series, which are obviously the mobile GPUs. The current lineup consists of mainstream and performance segments, while the high-end was still not officially announced. Well, this has changed a bit today, because AMD together with MSI has showcased it’s new APU and GPU with a MSI [...]

    AMD_Radeon_Graphics_OEM_Desktop_PCs_Hero_770Wv2

    OEM AMD Radeon HD 8000 Graphics Cards Are Rebranded HD 7000 Series

    Let me just start this post by saying, what the hell AMD?? This is probably the most stupid idea ever. While there is still no confirmation about the ‘real’ graphics cards release date, we are presented with the new OEM solutions by AMD, which include all variety of HD 8000 graphics cards. So if you [...]

    Radeon HD 8000 Sea Islands Series

    Meet Aruba, Curacao, Hainan and Bonaire, The Codenames of Radeon HD 8000 Series

    If you found previous posts about the new series quite confusing, since there was no solid information about the naming, then you will be even more perplexed with the latest leak. So it appears that AMD will use two different names for their series, one for the desktop Radeon HD 8000, and the second one [...]

    AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Specifications (Analysis)

    AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Specifications (Analysis)

    Radeon HD 8000 Series Radeon HD 8990 Radeon HD 8970 Radeon HD 8950 Radeon HD 8870 Radeon HD 8850 Radeon HD 8770 Radeon HD 8750 GPU Venus XTX Venus XT Venus Pro Oland XT Oland Pro Mars XT Mars Pro Transistors Count ~10 billion 5.1 billion 5.1 billion 3.4 billion 3.4 billion 2.1 billion 2.1 [...]

    Radeon HD 8970 Specification

    AMD Radeon HD 8970 Rumored Specification Analysis

    Few days ago, guys from PC Perspective posted some rumored specification of upcoming flagship model from AMD — Radeon HD 8970. There are two reasons why I didn’t post anything about it. The first is that their information was simply based on quite old ‘leaked’ slide, which as far as I know is fake. However [...]

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Will Utilize GK110 GPU

    Maybe this is nothing new we wouldn’t  already speculate about, but SweClockers’s source says that NVIDIA is preparing the GK110 GeForce for non-professional market as we speak. According to the SweClockers’s source, NVIDIA will launch it a new flagship GeForce model with Kepler GK110 GPU — the GTX 780. Also the site is claiming that [...]

    Latest Rumors – NVIDIA Preparing GTX 660/670 SE, Radeon HD8000 Performance

    UPDATE: Well, the rumors are clearing out a bit. Right now, there is no SE model coming. Additionally, we are again talking about two models coming simultaneously – GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 660 Ti. One is said to be based on GK104 and the other GK106 GPU. Moreover, first leaks about GTS 650 are [...]

    First Sign of AMD’s Radeon HD 8000 Series Found in Catalyst Drivers

    Some interesting piece of information can be found in the newest beta version of Catalyst drivers. If you somehow got bored with actual naming of Radeon GPUs, then let me introduce to you the upcoming codenames of Radeon HD 8000 Series instead. The latest BETA version of Catalyst drivers reveal the codenames of upcoming APUs [...]

    AMD Radeon HD 8970 Speculation, Radeon HD 7990 Delayed

    We have first rumors about upcoming successor for Radeon HD 7970. Card based on new Enhanced Graphics Core Next (EGCN) technology is codenamed Tenerife XT, so it may be called Radeon HD 8970. Card would feature 1.2x performance of Radeon HD 7970. It is rumored that it may have 2304 stream processors and 3GB of [...]