Sapphire evaluates next gen HD 9970 + New leaked pic

[nicehat]

Among the more notable elements are the following:
 

• 12 layer PCB (already mentioned in prev posts)
• May include a 512 bus 
• Shortened card to increase compatibility with smaller cases
• 8 pin and 6 pin power
• 250 TDP (still rumor)
• Q3-Q4 2013 release 

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphics/display/20130710230935_Sapphire_Begins_to_Evaluate_Next_Gen_AMD_Radeon_HD_Graphics_Card_with_Select_Customers_Report.html

[I'm Batman]

im SURE they will have a new design for it cuz they have to counter nvidia 770,780,Titan in design too that thing looks o basic for a 4000 shader unit 1 ghz clock speed ed card

[Cypher32]

I cant bring myself to buying AMD's cards. I realize they preform better but all of the cool tech that Nvidia has usually brings me to the green team.

[Morpheus]

I cant bring myself to buying AMD's cards. I realize they preform better but all of the cool tech that Nvidia has usually brings me to the green team.

i don't see that much cool tech to bring me over to Nvidia lol other than shadowplay, nothing else seems worthwhile to give up performance

[qwertywarrior]

the 8xx from nvidia has an Arm core  which sounds awesome and other new innovations

the 9xxx is pretty much more of the same 

we need something more awesome come on AMD !!!!

uve been using the same playbook since 2008

[nicehat]

the 8xx from nvidia has an Arm core  which sounds awesome and other new innovations

the 9xxx is pretty much more of the same 

we need something more awesome come on AMD !!!!

uve been using the same playbook since 2008

 

Price:Performance ratio is Steeply in AMD's favor..For the every day gamer with $200-300 bucks in their pocket to upgrade their rig with, its a no brainer to go with team red. Plus you get all those free games to fool around with. Thats how I feel about current gen

 

Next gen? I think AMD has a few cards  :P up their sleeve

[Immort]

the 8xx from nvidia has an Arm core  which sounds awesome and other new innovations

the 9xxx is pretty much more of the same 

we need something more awesome come on AMD !!!!

uve been using the same playbook since 2008

The 800 series is still way off, and there is no way of telling what new technologies the 9000 series is bringing.

At lest with the 7000 series AMD actually introduced a new architecture with GCN unlike Nvidia's Kepler which is just neutered fermi.

The best Anti Aliasing technology SMAA uses AMD's MLAA technology, which AMD released a few years back, AMD was the first to bring multi-monitor gaming to the market & the first to introduce hair physics to games with TressFX & Tomb Raider.