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AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series Graphics Preview

Videocards/VGA Reviews by petervandamned @ 2011-12-22

Last week we attended a conference call from AMD. Subject of the day was the new 7 series of Radeon HD videocards. First one from the new 7900 Series is the flagship in single GPU configurations, the Radeon HD 7970. Please be aware this is only the presentation based on the official slides, the actual review will folllow soon here at Madshrimps. Let's see what the new high end AMD cards have to offer.

AMD App Acceleration

The Unified Video Decoder has been enhanced for the HD 7900 Series. We have an additional module available that does video encoding:

Here are the functions AMD's VCE brings regarding Core functionality, quality features and interfacing features:

The API has been seeded to different developers; one of the applications that supports this is the TotalMedia Theatre 5.2 by ArcSoft:

The new QSAD instruction coming with the Radeon HD 7900 series enhances the motion estimation by delivering up to 10x faster processing than CPU:

More apps will support in the future the features brought by AMD:

WinZip will also use the OpenCL features to speed up the engine:

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