Posted on Monday, February 20 2012 @ 20:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The specifications of AMD's Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon HD 7870 were leaked today by Expreview. These cards will fill in the sub-$300 segment of the market, the Radeon HD 7870 will get 2GB GDDR5 while the Radeon HD 7850 will be available in 1GB and 2GB GDDR5 flavors. Additionally, there's also a rumor floating around that AMD may add a Radeon HD 7890 based on the Tahiti core should the need arise.
AMD Radeon HD 7870
22 CUs 1408 GCN Stream processors
88 TMUs, 24 ROPs (de-linked from memory bus)
2 GB GDDR5 memory, 256-bit bus
950 MHz Core Clock
1375 MHz (5.50 GHz effective) memory clock
AMD Radeon HD 7850
20 CUs 1280 GCN Stream processors
80 TMUs, 24 ROPs (de-linked from memory bus)
1 GB or 2GB GDDR5 memory, 256-bit bus
900 MHz Core Clock
1250 MHz (5.00 Ghz effective) memory clock
Source: Legit Reviews
