AMD has tied the Radeon HD 7970 to the bed, handed the axe to Kathy Bates, and told her to swing away. Economics has that undeniable allure.) That’s where the subject of our attention today, the Radeon HD 7950, comes into the picture.
Happily, AMD is practicing the time-honored tradition of product segmentation, spinning off a new version of the product that’s slightly hobbled and somewhat cheaper, in order to service multiple points along the supply and demand curves. Any way you cut it, that’s a tremendous ransom for a graphics card, one that most folks-even most dedicated PC gamers-will be hesitant to fork out. Right now, street prices are hovering somewhere between $550 and $600 at online vendors, although we’d expect things to settle down a bit in the coming weeks. What’s not to like about that?Īs the most desirable single-GPU graphics card in the world, the 7970 commands a premium heftier than Kloe Kardashian-prices start at 550 bucks and go up from there, depending on the variant. Not only that, but the 7970 is based on a new GPU architecture-oh-so creatively named Graphics Core Next-that establishes rough parity with Nvidia in terms of GPU-computing capabilities, as well. As the world’s first GPU built with 28-nm fabrication tech, the 7970 asserted its dominance in our tests by humbling the prior king of the hill, the GeForce GTX 580, through higher performance and lower power consumption. If you’re plugged into the PC hardware and gaming worlds at all, you probably already know about the Radeon HD 7970, AMD’s world-beating graphics card that debuted recently.
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