AMD has officially unveiled its Radeon HD 7950 graphics card which uses AMD’s new Graphics Core Next architecture. The HD 7950 is based on the same Tahiti GPU that is found in the HD 7970 but has some elements disabled. The HD 7950 has only 28 of the 32 GCN compute units enabled which means that there are only 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Mapping Units and 32 ROPs. The HD 7950 still uses the same 384-bit memory bus and also has 3GB of GDDR5 like the HD 7970.
The HD 7950 has a core reference clock speed of 800MHz with an effective memory clock speed of 5GHz. AMD’s AIB partners are allowed to overclock the core to 900MHz. The HD 7950 only uses two six-pin connectors unlike the HD 7970 which uses a 6-pin and an 8-pin connector.
Landmark Computers was the only local supplier able to provide South African pricing for the HD 7950 cards at this time:
Club3D – R5,300
Asus – R5,500
MSI – R5,500
These prices are not set in stone at the moment and are subject to change without notice.
Source: TechPowerUp (http://www.techpowerup.com/159685/AMD-Launches-the-Radeon-HD-7950-Graphics-Card.html)
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nice. Exept the price. Would like to see the nvidia counter for these cards