AMD Brings the Launch of Radeon HD 7900 Series Forward: December 22nd, 2011

[siopao1984]

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According to conversations with fellow journalists and AIB partners, AMD brought forward the launch of HD 7970, while the availability and HD 7950 should launch on January 9, 2012 - one day before CES.

Last minute decisions can turn in quite a mess when people involved aren't afraid to speak up and voice out their concerns. Yesterday, there was flurry of activity on various chat boards between board vendors and journalists, all trying to figure out what happened.According to the information at hand, AMD wishes to end the 2011 year by winning the accolades for the best microprocessor and the best graphics processor in the world. In order to do that, the company brought forward the launch of Radeon HD 7970, which was revealed here. As you know, AMD's CEO Rory P. Read proudly announced that the company started to ship the 28nm GPUs for revenue, and there are numerous leaked pictures, pricing rumors and an alleged specifications slide leak.Now, it looks like the Radeon HD 7970 will launch on December 22, 2011, bringing a Christmas gift to all the current AMD users and those that want to become one. This will be a very limited launch, with the real availability only coming on January 9, 2012 - which should be the launch date for the Radeon HD 7950.The interesting bit about the Radeon HD 7950 is that the board is coming out as a custom part, and AMD gave freedom to partners to clock the part anyway they want, there is flexibility in terms of amount of memory, 3rd party cooling - just like GeForce GTX 560 launch, expect a lot of different parts coming from all the usual suspects.As far as HD 7950 availability is concerned, several sources in the know gave out conflicting information. One information floating around claims a limited launch on December 22 for HD7970 only, with widespread availability of HD7970 and HD7950 coming on January 9, 2012, and another rumor is that both HD7970 and 7950 are coming on December 22, 2011, albeit in very limited quantities. Again, both sides of the coin revolve around Dec 22nd and Jan 9th.The truth will be known on next Thursday, December 22nd.

Read more: AMD Brings the Launch of Radeon HD 7900 Series Forward: December 22nd, 2011 by VR-Zone.com

[akomao]

woah apas jd cal before christmas oh, dghan jd ni haling HAHA

[jairoh_]

merry Christmas for this news!

[siopao1984]

Q1 2012 pa ni maabot sa pinas

[Lingaw-lingaw_sa_payag]

para lang jd maingon na winner cla karon na year? toinks..

[AxisVirus]

@lingaw : ana jd bro. kay napildi bya sila sa proc. haha namawi

[kinumot]

hahay. lain na pod ka buslotan sa bulsa.

[kenox]

i wonder how powerful this card is =)