NVIDIA somewhat delayed the release of new graphics generation, the GeForce GTX 680 dealt with competing product - Radeon HD 7970 - for high-performance graphics accelerators. As response AMD has reduced the recommended prices for individual version Radeon HD 7000 and released under the name of world's fastest single-processor graphics card - Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.
The next step will be a new version of the Radeon HD 7950, which will also receive an honorary title, which indicates that the GPU frequency up to 1 GHz . As is the case with the older relative GPU parameters (except frequency) will not change, and the Radeon HD 7950 GHz Edition will get 1792 shader processors, 112 texture units, 32 raster operations unit, 384-bit memory controller, and 3 GB GDDR5 memory .
New product will compete with GeForce GTX 670 in cost: as expected, AMD will offer the card valued at $ 350-400. Release of Radeon HD 7950 GHz Edition will be held before the end of the quarter.