Information appeared on the network that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the near future plans to release a fabricly dispersed version of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphic adapter on the market.
Such a move from AMD can be considered as strengthening the positions in the graphics segment in the price category up to $ 400, which is especially true on the eve of the speedy announcement of the main competitor represented by Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The current situation resembles a recent update of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 video adapter, the nucleus of which was forced up to 1 GHz. It seems that the leadership of the red-black camp is not going to reduce prices for its products and will compete by force the method of forcing the available devices.
The start of the production of AMD Radeon HD 7950 with a modified version of BIOS is scheduled for mid -August of this year. The frequency of the graphic processor will be increased to 850 MHz (925 MHz in Turbo mode), other specifications will remain unchanged, however, as well as the recommended cost of the new product.
Source:
- Techpowerup.com