AMD Launches Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card

January 31 2012 is finally here, so that Advanced Micro Devices stepped up and made the original introduction of the second council of the series Radeon HD 7000.

Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapter is supported by the graphics processing unit the same as HD 7970 (GPU codename Tahiti).


Based on 28nm manufacturing process technology, it is the latest achievements and the second largest, company Sunnyvale, Calif.-based, on the video market.

Specifications are people who rumors, reports and a preliminary list of clearly spelled out some time ago.

By operating at 800 MHz GPU, memory, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, has a clock speed of 5 GHz.

That said, the board features two mini DisplayPort outputs, and DVI connectors, as was common at this time, an HDMI output as well.

Moved, the developer applied to AMD graphics hardware architecture and PowerTune Next Core AMD and AMD Power ZeroCore technology.

What's more, the HD 7950 supports PCI Express Gen 3.0 interface and, naturally, CrossFire technology and HD3D too.

All in all, AMD cards can reach 2.8 TFLOPS of compute power and up to two times the basic performance of the dual-GPU configurations.

"With the arrival of AMD's Radeon HD 7950, AMD has set the bar very high for 28nm graphics technology and performance," said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, GPU Division, AMD.

"From the cover of the immersion made possible by AMD multi-display technology and AMD Eyefinity technology HD3D stereo 3D experience, incredible realism of today's games DirectX 11 capable, we provide an unparalleled experience to gamers. AMD's Radeon HD 7900 series of products in class their own. "

Of course, with the release of the way, various AMD partners are expressing their own models, both custom-designed and not. Stay tuned for more.

The official price is $ 450, but Newegg lists starting at $ 459. European prices should be around 420 Euros.