As of today, it seems, as if AMD is trying to bring you the new graphics chips earlier then
planned. So are the 77xx series for entry-High-Level gaming. Their chip called ” Cape Verde”,
the 78xx series “Pitcairn” adress High-performance gamers and the flagship, 79xx series
“Tahiti” are dedicated to the enthusiast users. AMD plans to bring them cards out for x-mas!

So for all of you who have some bucks to spend on, a limited stock of the new chips may become available at Dec, 22nd and the mainstream will arrive at the previously scheduled time: Namely Jan, 21st, 2012!

The chips itself are manufactured in 28nm structure. So the TDP may still sink a little bit although up to 3.4 billion transistors are doing their work and boosting the power by 40% compared to it’s 6xxx series cards…

The next year may become hot. NVidia still has NDA on the 6xx GeForce series but they seem promising also!