AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series Cards
AMD will release its Radeon HD 7700 series graphics cards sometime in the next week. The new "Cape Verde" GPU aims to increase AMD's competitive edge in the sub-$200 market. This new design appears to focus more on a smaller number of better-configured Graphics Core Next stream processors being paired with higher clock speeds to further improve performance over the previous generation. AMD is counting on these changes to offer better performance while keeping transistor counts and therefore power consumption in check. Stay tuned for our review of the AMD Radeon HD 7700 series when it launches later next week.

Cape Verde Specs
Built on TSMC 28nm process,~1.5 billion transistors
10 Graphics Core Next Compute Units (CUs)
640 Stream processors
40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
Radeon HD 7770
All CUs enabled, 640 Stream processors
1 GB GDDR5 memory
40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
1000 MHz Core clock-speed
1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
72 GB/s Memory bandwidth
1280 GFLOP/s Single precision floating-point performance
Typical board power: 80W
Radeon HD 7750
8 CUs enabled, 512 Stream processors
1 GB GDDR5 memory
32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
800 MHz Core clock-speed
1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
72 GB/s Memory bandwidth
819 GFLOP/s Single precision floating-point performance
Typical board power: 55W

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