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AMD radeon 9970 have 300w TDP! (also specs and lot more)

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As we all know Radeon 9970 (R9-970) is going to be announced 25.9.2013, and price is under 600€

If someone was thinking that why it is named "volcanic islands" well here is the reason: 9970 is having 300w TDP and  because of 28nm transistors 9970 is going to have huge die size.

Huge TDP means that it is doing to draw lots of power, output lots of heat and run very hot.

(The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, represents the maximum amount of power the cooling system in a computer is required to dissipate).

So as assumed that card cant run cool, so prepare your waterblocks!

This might be refrence cooler:

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So it is going to be about 5% faster than 780, in 3Dmark we see that GTX titan scored 4600 points and 9970 scored 4816 points.

Its no doubt that the Hawaii GPU would tackle the one and only GK110 core from NVIDIA. GK110 stands strong against its competitors from AMD in the HD 7000 series.

Both the GeForce GTX Titan and GeForce GTX 780 do well in performance although they do cost alot too. The end point would be what GPU offers more value to consumers. If AMD is going all out to tackle the GK110 with their Hawaii GPU, then they also have to keep the prices under control, and price estimate for 9970 is 600€.

The performance looks much more impressive when comparing generation vs generation (Southern Islands vs Volcanic Islands). The Radeon HD 7970 scores 3300-3500 points in the same benchmark so this is a major increase in performance on AMD’s end. But it could also stir up some questions, if the chip is going to perform with such tendency, would the cost of the graphics card end up higher around the GTX 780 levels or lower. Price wars between both rivalries always benefits the consumer. But we have seen what NVIDIA did with their current generation of graphic cards. The GeForce GTX Titan sits at its $1000 premium price range knowing the fact no card from AMD can compete against it. AMD can do the same with their card, keeping its price adjusted at a concrete spot for months until NVIDIA comes out with something new, Maxwell.
 

Specs are:

Raw Performance:

Clock speed:1,000 MHz
Shading units: 4,096
Texture mapping units: 256
Render output processors: 64
Compute units: 16
Pixel rate: 64 GPixel/s
Texture rate: 168 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance: 8,192 GFLOPS

Memory:

Memory clock speed: 1,820MHz
Effective: 7,000Mhz or 6000Mhz
Memory bus: 512bit
Memory: 4,096 MB
Memory type: GDDR5

Noise And Power:

TDP: 300W

 

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Links:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/8/7/amd-to-launch-gpu-codenamed-hawaii-in-hawaii-sept-25.aspx

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1831&gid2=1702&compare=radeon-hd-7950-club3d-royalking-edition-vs-radeon-hd-9970

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/new_codenames_volcanic_islands_appear.html

http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/17392-amd-kodnamn-avslojas-i-hwinfo

http://wccftech.com/amd-hawaii-gpu-performance-exposed-3dmark-faster-gtx-titan/

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25.7.2013. That's clearly wrong. I'll wait until I make any further comments, but I'm excited :)

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dayum, dat memory! :o

awesome high res gpu!

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I agree it must be well priced if it wants to compete with the 780 and titan that have much lower power consumption.

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As we all know Radeon 9970 (R9-970) is going to be released 25.8.2013.

If someone was thinking that why it is named "volcanic islands" well here is the reason: 9970 is having 300w TDP and  because of 28nm transistors 9970 is going to have huge die size.

Huge TDP means that it is doing to draw lots of power, output lots of heat and run very hot.

(The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, represents the maximum amount of power the cooling system in a computer is required to dissipate).

So as assumed that card cant run cool, so prepare your waterblocks!

This might be refrence cooler:

attachicon.gifRadeon-HD-8970-Filtrada.jpg

 

So it is going to be about 5% faster than 780, in 3Dmark we see that GTX titan scored 4600 points and 9970 scored 4816 points.

Its no doubt that the Hawaii GPU would tackle the one and only GK110 core from NVIDIA. GK110 stands strong against its competitors from AMD in the HD 7000 series.

Both the GeForce GTX Titan and GeForce GTX 780 do well in performance although they do cost alot too. The end point would be what GPU offers more value to consumers. If AMD is going all out to tackle the GK110 with their Hawaii GPU, then they also have to keep the prices under control, and price estimate for 9970 is 600€.

The performance looks much more impressive when comparing generation vs generation (Southern Islands vs Volcanic Islands). The Radeon HD 7970 scores 3300-3500 points in the same benchmark so this is a major increase in performance on AMD’s end. But it could also stir up some questions, if the chip is going to perform with such tendency, would the cost of the graphics card end up higher around the GTX 780 levels or lower. Price wars between both rivalries always benefits the consumer. But we have seen what NVIDIA did with their current generation of graphic cards. The GeForce GTX Titan sits at its $1000 premium price range knowing the fact no card from AMD can compete against it. AMD can do the same with their card, keeping its price adjusted at a concrete spot for months until NVIDIA comes out with something new, Maxwell.

 

Specs are:

Raw Performance:

Clock speed:1,000 MHz

Shading units: 4,096

Texture mapping units: 256

Render output processors: 64

Compute units: 16

Pixel rate: 64 GPixel/s

Texture rate: 168 GTexel/s

Floating-point performance: 8,192 GFLOPS

Memory:

Memory clock speed: 1,820MHz

Effective: 7,000Mhz or 6000Mhz

Memory bus: 512bit

Memory: 4,096 MB

Memory type: GDDR5

Noise And Power:

TDP: 300W

 

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Links:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/8/7/amd-to-launch-gpu-codenamed-hawaii-in-hawaii-sept-25.aspx

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1831&gid2=1702&compare=radeon-hd-7950-club3d-royalking-edition-vs-radeon-hd-9970

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/new_codenames_volcanic_islands_appear.html

http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/17392-amd-kodnamn-avslojas-i-hwinfo

http://wccftech.com/amd-hawaii-gpu-performance-exposed-3dmark-faster-gtx-titan/

 

I think you really believed in those rumors... lol. Not going to happen, sorry. No cookie for you.

9970, once it comes out, may outperform Titan and I hope it does - Nvidia has Maxwells scheduled next year so AMD won't be happy for too long. If AMD doesnt have anything better than 9970 'beating titan by few %'... AMD is screwed. When Nvidia launches their low-end model GM104 as flagship beating Radeon like they did with 680 GK104 in 2012 Radeons will probably have hard time to keep up.

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Ups typo, now it is corrected.

it needs correcting again its 25.09.2013

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Also please stop spreading rumors about some silly specification, this won't happen on 28nm. People are ready to believe in 12 core Phenom IV 6 GHZ with 75w power consumption so they are ready to believe in this wet dream about Radeon 9970.

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Thanks, i suck at caculating months.  :P

yeah I had to think what the 8th month was for a second too :p

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I think you really believed in those rumors... lol. Not going to happen, sorry. No cookie for you.

9970, once it comes out, may outperform Titan and I hope it does - Nvidia has Maxwells scheduled next year so AMD won't be happy for too long. If AMD doesnt have anything better than 9970 'beating titan by few %'... AMD is screwed. When Nvidia launches their low-end model GM104 as flagship beating Radeon like they did with 680 GK104 in 2012 Radeons will probably have hard time to keep up.

 

 

Also please stop spreading rumors about some silly specification, this won't happen on 28nm. People are ready to believe in 12 core Phenom IV 6 GHZ with 75w power consumption so they are ready to believe in this wet dream about Radeon 9970.

Obiously you have something against me or AMD. :(

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Thanks, i suck at caculating months.  :P

 

Oh some clarification may be needed - if this Radeon 9970 would really have 4000 streaming units, double the streaming units of 7970, it would outperform Titan heavily. But it doesnt going by your another rumor of some 3dmark in japanese, asian or chinese whatever.

 

I think somebody missed numbers and put 9970 instead 7990 and put some misleading numbers here and there :)

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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wut? 28nm? is this true? isnt it supposed to be 20nm? 

waiting for maxwell then :D

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Oh some clarification may be needed - if this Radeon 9970 would really have 4000 streaming units, double the streaming units of 7970, it would outperform Titan heavily. But it doesnt going by your another rumor of some 3dmark in japanese, asian or chinese whatever.

 

I think somebody missed numbers and put 9970 instead 7990 and put some misleading numbers here and there :)

I did not invent these numbers, just to let you know.

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Finally something true coming out of your mouth M-ursu. how can AMD have magically 20nm when even TSMC doesnt have that yet.

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Finally something true coming out of your mouth M-ursu. how can AMD have magically 20nm when even TSMC doesnt have that yet.

Obiously you have something against me :)

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I did not invent these numbers, just to let you know.

 

Oh also you say that you didnt invent those numbers.

 

Okay so where did you see an announcement of any card with the specification you posted here? By my info there is no such card neither already on the market nor announced to come out anytime soon. Those are all rumors and they are false. Nothin sticks here. 4000 shaders would kill Titan yet it doesnt in another rumor of some chinese boy doing 3Dmark. Most sources also say 20nm while that's not even possible right now...

 

False info is always bad info. Please stop spreading chaos :D

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Obiously you have something against me :)

 

Nah I like you and your avatar specifically.

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Finally, I couldnt find that article anywhere.

So... If Jesus had the gold, would he buy himself out instead of waiting 3 days for the respawn?

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Oh and, "AMD has clarified that it is the Hawaii/Volcanic Islands tech day in September, not the launch. The launch will officially happen in Q4 some time, the dates in this article are our speculation.".

 

Source: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/08/07/amd-to-launch-hawaii-in-hawaii/

 

 

Yea this thread is full of bullshit...

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