Radeon HD 8000 cards to debut in Q2'13?

[claptonman]

You're missing the point jonny. Look at the read out. 2200MB @ 0% load. That is not in a game. THat is desktop use (maybe a movie or something ).

And do a little research. There are far more peopleusing 1440p than you think. I only hope it is half decent picture, as 1080p @ 21.5" looks like pixelated ass.

No, that's after a game. I didn't set the load on highest, like Vram, temp, and speed. Sorry if I made that confusing.

And my point was that 3GB of RAM is not overkill. Hell, it should be standard. There's plenty of people with 1440/triple monitors out there.

 

[wolfeking]

It was a little confusing being 0% load in the picture, but I think it makes sense.

I agree that 3GB is a good medium. I'm running 2GB, but I can not say if I am using all of it as I'm too lazy to boot up just to check.

 

[claptonman]

It was a little confusing being 0% load in the picture, but I think it makes sense.

I agree that 3GB is a good medium. I'm running 2GB, but I can not say if I am using all of it as I'm too lazy to boot up just to check.

If you look at the little green wording next to some of them, it means it's on the max or min since it started. If I did set the load to max, it would be 100% easy.

 

[wolfeking]

? green. I see no green in it. :/ Just to be sure, here is what I see with the pic that you linked (just to be sure we are seeing the same thing).

EDIT: Looking at it wearing my specs I see it. Little text.

 

[jonnyp11]

Like SmileMan said those are not the right ones. The 8950/8970 has a bigger die 365mm vs 400mm. Plus the shader count is higher, the 7950 has 1792. The 8950 has 2304. The 7970 has 2048, the 8970 has 2560. The 8950/8970 has higher bandwidth too. Really a big diffeence. The transistor count is up from 4.31 billion to 5.1 billion.

The 8870 has the same spec as the 7950 but with only a 256 bit memory, where the 7950 has 384 bit.

I was thinking the 8000s would be OEM ONLY, but a little look shows they may not be as the latest drivers had seperate 8800/8900 OEM and a 8950 and some lower end 8000s, so i guess they might have a full new line, but i wouldnt say positively that they will

 

[wolfeking]

It is likely going to be like the CGN line currently is. OEM gets HD76** and below while consumer gets 7750 and above. Would make sense actually.

 

[jonnyp11]

It is likely going to be like the CGN line currently is. OEM gets HD76** and below while consumer gets 7750 and above. Would make sense actually.

That would but they have already announce a full OEM lineup with an 8970/7970 and everything.

 

[Virssagòn]

The 8870 has the same spec as the 7950 but with only a 256 bit memory, where the 7950 has 384 bit.

That's not really true.
The transistor count of an hd7950 is 4.31B, from the hd8870 will be 3.4B.
The bandwidth of a hd7950is 240GB/s vs hd8870 = 192 GB/s
Memory interface is like you said 384-bit vs 256-bit.
Also I think the hd8870 will only have 2GB of memory.

Their is still a bit of difference in the specs between them. Anyway, the hd8870 is clocked pretty damn high. That could make the gap between them very small.
At resolutions like 1080p or 1200p, I think the hd8870 even slays the hd7950 lol.