{"id":33551,"date":"2012-03-05T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33551"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:06:04","slug":"amd-unveils-hd7800-graphics-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33551-amd-unveils-hd7800-graphics-cards","title":{"rendered":"AMD unveils HD7800 graphics cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD today (5 March 2012) has pulled the curtain back on its next wave of Radeon HD7000 graphics cards, the HD 7800 series.<\/p>\n<p>The 28nm GCN based products feature the Pitcairn core, and will be the last of the Southern Island line-up to feature AMD\u2019s Graphics Core Next Architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The HD 7870 is the higher-end of the two cards announced today, and features 1280 GCN processors, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide 2GB GDDR5 memory interface.<\/p>\n<p>AMD is calling the HD 7870 the \u201cGHz Edition\u201d, as it is the second card in the HD7000 series to feature a core clock speed of 1,000MHz, with the memory running at 1,200MHz.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33556\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33556\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33556\" title=\"HD 7800\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800.jpg\" alt=\"HD 7800\" width=\"443\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800.jpg 443w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HD-7800-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HD 7800<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>AMD Radeon HD7870 details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1280 Stream Processors<\/li>\n<li>Code Name: Pitcairn XT<\/li>\n<li>GB GDDR5 Memory Buffer<\/li>\n<li>Release Date: 19th March 2012<\/li>\n<li>TDP: 175W<\/li>\n<li>Price: $349 (R2800)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMD Radeon HD7850 details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1024 Stream Processors<\/li>\n<li>Code Name: Pitcairn Pro<\/li>\n<li>2GB GDDR5 Frame Buffer<\/li>\n<li>Release Date: 19th March 2012<\/li>\n<li>TDP: 130W<\/li>\n<li>Price: $249 (R2000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The $349 price tag puts the HD7870 up against Nvidia\u2019s GTX 570, and the HD7850 looks set to compete with Nvidia\u2019s GTX 560Ti.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, local pricing will be a different matter, and we await comment from AMD on local recommended price points.<\/p>\n<p>So far the HD7870 has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/reviews\/AMD\/HD_7850_HD_7870\/30.html\" target=\"_blank\">Techpowerup.com<\/a> giving it 9.1\/10, praising its performance, energy efficiency, good over clocking potential, solid feature set and support for multiple independent audio streams. The reviewer does mention that the card is a little too expensive, however.<\/p>\n<p>The HD 7850 also comes recommended, earning a score of 8.1\/10. Again, the HD7850 offers impressive performance, great energy efficiency and excellent overclocking potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD&#8217;s new Radeons offer solid performance, but is the price right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":33558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,3],"tags":[1051,2582,21,2583,2584],"class_list":["post-33551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-amd","tag-amd-radeon-hd-7800","tag-headline","tag-radeon-hd-7850","tag-radeon-hd-7870"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33562,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551\/revisions\/33562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}