News - Sapphire launches Tahiti LE based HD 7870 XT with Boost

[HEXUS]

“Delivers a new price/ performance point to the series” according to Sapphire.

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[krazy_olie]

Original naming

[Willzzz]

Nice to be able to actually tell it apart from a normal 7870.

[kalniel]

Gah, but the 7870 is already Pitcairn XT. Tahiti XT is 7970. This is Tahiti LE masquerading as Pitcairn XT XT :/ Not impressed AMD/partners...

[scaryjim]

To be fair to AMD, when they called their cut-down top-grade card a 5830 everyone complained that it didn't perform well enough to merit the x8xx moniker, and when in the next generation they called it a 6790 everyone complained that it was too power hungry to be called an x7xx! They didn't have many places to go from there...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Shader count in release bumpf is wrong,it should be 1536.

Edit!!

Even their website lists 1280 shaders:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presenta...n=&lid=1&leg=0

Fail!!

[kalniel]

To be fair to AMD, when they called their cut-down top-grade card a 5830 everyone complained that it didn't perform well enough to merit the x8xx moniker

I didn't hear any complaints - it was the most sensible name possible and they even broke down their naming convention to make it clear I thought.

[krazy_olie]

I just want better words than "boost" and "xtreme".


I would like a "brisk" edition

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I just want better words than "boost" and "xtreme".


I would like a "brisk" edition

HD7870 "its faster than a HD7870 but slightlty slower than a HD7950" Edition??

[Willzzz]

"I can't believe it's not a 7950"?

[jtenorj]

This is old news. Maybe I read this at Kitguru? Anyway, the card has 1536 shaders(otherwise, it would be slower than a normal 7870 at those clock speeds). It has actually been tested to be a little faster than a hd7950(not sure if that's a 7950 with or without boost) and is priced similarly to other 7870s in the market. At the time, initial release was in the UK with an uncertain future anywhere else. For people in the UK, it's a no brainer over a normal 7870 or at least some older 7950s(if not all of them). It does consume more power than 7950, though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

OcUK has the card on pre-order for the middle of January 2013:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-312-SP

[Cheapy]

Shader count in release bumpf is wrong,it should be 1536.

They have updated the website to say 1536 shader count now.
Looks an interesting card but hope sapphire have got the power consumption under hand.

[Willzzz]

I don't think Sapphire can do much about the power consumption, that's the main weakness of this card, not that I think most people will care.
Seems like it will be important to have good case airflow though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They have updated the website to say 1536 shader count now.

I had told Gibbo on OcUK about it and he got Sapphire to check for him.

[abychristy]

Great!