Upcoming Sapphire overclocked 7970 models

WOW ! the review 7970's were 925mhz, and they already have models with clocks @1335mhz ! 1387mhz would be a 50% increase over the review models. These cards are going to be fast ! I've seen the pics of the Gigabyte triple fan model as well, hopefully those are ready to go on the 9th ? There is also the possibility that someone in the community will be able to unlock those additional shaders for even more fun........
 
Wow I'm definitely interested in this now. Probably hold off crossfiring a 6970 and wait till these come out..
 
Lorien said:
It also seems that the 7970 was originally planned to have 2304SPs (36CUs).
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I don't think anyone outside AMD knows what its original design target was but AMD has officially denied there are any disabled cores on the die:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...dden-cores-in-radeon-hd-7970-(tahiti-xt).aspx

Late last week, we started hearing a rumor considering recently launched Radeon HD 7970. The rumor was based on leaked Sapphire documents that were mentioning insanely high clocks for their upcoming parts, but also specified parts featuring the Tahiti GPU with 2304 cores.

Given that AMD did not deliver die shots of Southern Islands GPU architecture, it wasn’t too hard to see the tech media and consumers spreading like wildfire. AMD did not help the matter by not returning the early calls but in all fairness, it was New Year weekend.

We contacted AMD's representatives such as Mr. Chris Hook and Eric Demers and received a straight answer from the company, represented by Mr. Hook, Senior PR exec:

"There are no hidden cores…"

There you go - unlike Intel that had serious issues with power consumption and heat dissipation on their Sandy Bridge-Extreme processors and had to disable two processing cores and 5MB of L3 cache, or NVIDIA that had 512-cores inside their GF100 (GeForce GTX 480) chip and had to disable 32 processing cores in order to get acceptable yields - AMD has 4.3 billion transistors which pack a 384-bit interface, 2048 processing cores in 32 Compute Units (CU0-CU31) and there is no room for couple of hundred million additional transistors "doing nothing."

To us, this was more an excercise in giving partners different information about the clocks in order to find out who will leak the specifications to members of the press and receive a slap from AMD. Then again, we had the information of 2048 cores as of late July, and we know we weren't the only ones.
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I'm anxiously awaiting that FLEX 6G option so I can finally light up HD3D+ Eyefinity...
 
*Faps at the numbers*

Maybe, JUST maybe I should hold off overhauling my system just a bit longer for Atomic RX and Ivy bridge. I'm getting IMPATIENT!
 
What are the thoughts on these 1335 mhz clocks. Is this the real deal and how much more will it cost?
 
hammerforged said:
What are the thoughts on these 1335 mhz clocks. Is this the real deal and how much more will it cost?
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It honestly sounds too good to be true. Even if some were able to push it that high with aftermarket coolers today, i can't see a vendor pushing it that high b/c of low yields on their side.
 
Thats what I was thinking as well. Especially to even try to offer a warrenty on that kind of OC. People would be burning them up left and right ha.
 
When are these 1335mhz 7970 cards coming out? With cards at this clock and Kepler applying pressure and driveing the price down a bit they may be the card to get in the coming month or 2.

I would get 2 of these cards if they are close enough to Kepler but an excellent value.
 
Fuck the video cards. I want the crystal ball and whatever you people are smoking that lets you see into the future.
 
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