For the first time in years, AMD has finally came up with a graphics card that outperforms the best Nvidia has to offer.
AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, currently the world's fastest single GPU graphics card and the only GPU based on 28nm production technology.
At the heart of the new graphics card and the whole Radeon HD 7000 family is the company's new "Graphics Core Next" (GCN) Architecture that - according to AMD - realizes an improvement of over 150% in performance/sq mm over the prior generation.
The HD 7000 family marks the first time AMD turns to competing with Nvidia in terms performance instead of budget. Nvidia will launch its competing GTX 600 series of graphics cards in January 2012, so it won't be long before we benchmark the cards against each other.
