Specifications for AMD’s Tahiti GPU compiled, up to 60% performance gains

There has been much speculation on AMD’s Tahiti based graphics cards with Tahiti referring to the HD 79XX GPUs. The people over at 3D Center have compiled a full in depth look at the specifications of the Tahiti GPUs based on everything we know so far and it certainly makes for interesting reading.

• 4.5 billion transistors on a 380mm² die area
• Advanced GCN 1D architecture
• 2048 1D processing cores
• 128 TMUs, 48 ROPs
• 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, memory clock slightly below 1 GHz, target bandwidth of 240~264 GB/s