8970 Is Coming

[computerparts]

  source?

http://videocardz.com/42682/amd-radeon-hd-8970-pictured-leaked The new cards will supposedly be on display at E3.

[seleme]

Until it breaks the price point of 7950 ($300 for ~620kh), I won't be interested.

Depending on electricity consumption it might be better deal for those that would like to invest in farms as it means less of other parts.

Rig with 4 of 1MHs cards would mine at bigger hashrate than two 3x7950 rigs. Scale it even more and you might spare few bucks.

[ralree]

Until it breaks the price point of 7950 ($300 for ~620kh), I won't be interested.

Depending on electricity consumption it might be better deal for those that would like to invest in farms as it means less of other parts.

Rig with 4 of 1MHs cards would mine at bigger hashrate than two 3x7950 rigs. Scale it even more and you might spare few bucks.

True that might make it worth it.  If it really ends up doing >1200KH/s or so LTC, I will definitely consider it.

[Magnate]

I'd be more interested in the 8950/9950 for litecoin mining, the **70 might be better for bitcoin if you still want to use GPUs for that.

Currently the 7970 is bandwidth limited and despite having more processing power than than its little brother the hash rate doesn't scale.

The number quoted for the **70 show a higher band width, but with more processors you are still going to be bottle necked. If the **50 has the same band width but less processors and a much lower price then this is your LTC baby.

BTC you don't worry about memory performance and under clock not over clock. So the extra processors will be put to full work *IF* you want to mine with a GPU.

[innovation]

Great news!

[Amph]

end of the year is too late anyway...

[SeanArce]

Mining is useless. Stick to fiat

[polarhei]

I had read that AMD is planning to skip the 8xxx series naming for desktop cards (only use them for OEM chips in laptop graphics, etc) and would go directly to the 9xxx series for desktop graphics card products. The 9970 is supposed to have 4096 stream processors and I think should do 1.2 GH/s.

Then, it only provides the stable, but not for later stage. Additionally the new series. If there is no H265 hardware accelaration. Then. it is just a little improvement, not so insteresting as The people in the room know GPU is a form of ASIC,stable ones, New functions can be tested with FPGA.

4096 is currently not possible in 28nm, But AMD like to put more Cores in CU to make stronger, which is a dead loop.

[polarhei]

Mining is useless. Stick to fiat

Mining is used for controlling risk as everything has its risk. I accept the risk, Why there are three avatars following me?

[cdog]

Screw mining with that thing, I want one for Battlefield 4! 

[relm9]

I plan to buy two of them, but for gaming. If they are still worthwhile to use for mining purposes, well, then that's a bonus.

[Bitweasil]

I agree it seems soon considering 7990 release.  Then again 7990 really is a very small amount of their sells i bet.

What's disturbing is that the 7990 was "never supposed to happen" - that there is an official 7990 means that GCN2 is badly delayed and AMD needed something (anything) to compete with nVidia's latest.