Rumour: AMD Might Release a Tahiti LE Based HD 7800 Series Graphics Card This Month
According to leaks, it looks like AMD is planning to launch a Radeon HD 7800 series card this month and will be the final product in the 7000 series before Sea Islands launches next month.
The card features the cut down Tahiti LE GPU, delivering performance somewhere between the HD 7950 and the HD 7870. The GPU will actually be made from parts that failed to qualify for HD 7970/7950 cards and will be similar to the HD 6930 which was a cut down version of the HD 6950, which launched in winter, before Southern Islands was launched. It’s not certain when the actual launch will take place, but it looks like the price will be around $270-$280.
The Tahiti LE would launch to attract new buyers during the holiday season and offer competitive performance against the GTX 660 and GTX 660 Ti. The Tahiti LE chip would hold 24 compute units with a total of 1536 stream processors, 32 ROPs and a memory of 2GB GDDR5 along a 256-bit interface. Looking at the clock speeds the HD 7800 series offer, the Tahiti LE can also possibly be a GHz edition card with clock set around 1000 MHz and memory at 1200 MHz.
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