FRONTPAGE AMD Announces Radeon HD 7950 with Boost

[Overclockers.com]

Yesterday AMD announced a new version of their Tahiti Pro Radeon HD 7950 – with Boost. Let’s call it HD 7950B for the purposes of expediency. But what, if anything, does that change? We’ve got the low down for you.

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[Frakk]

Well.... No! i'm not keen on silly boost features on GPU's any more than i am on CPU's. "You asked, We listened" well that's nice but who asked for this daft boost thing? I blame Nvidia

Its a gimmick that just complicates overclocking.

Having said that if the new BIOS also has some optimisations to improve the GPU in terms of efficiency it is a very welcome thing.

And for AMD themselves to say "here is a new BIOS to improve your card, go get it and enjoy" is also a big thumbs up.

Will the 7870 be getting something like this? is my question to AMD

Also nice to see AMD starting to put OpenCL out there and work with people to make use of it instead of it just sitting in my card being a fairly impressive thing and yet almost completely useless apart for a select few app's.