While bleeding edge, high-end graphics cards are the things that really fill the dreams of custom PC builders, there’s no doubt a huge draw to more mid-range fodder, especially for those with lesser limits on their bank accounts. On that front, AMD’s upcoming 7xxx line of graphics cards promises to continue the Nvidia vs. AMD war, though instead of starting with the high-end and working down as is usually customary, AMD is starting out squarely in the middle with the 7770.
From what we can see based off of the couple of leaked images we’re looking at a single CrossFireX port for some dual-card action as well as a guestimation of power consumption being somewhere between 100-150W.
The upcoming mid-range card was spied over at VR-Zone packing the new 28-nm Cape Verde hardware which promises increased efficiency and performance over the outgoing 6xxx series as well as the first major upgrade to the underlying GPU platform in the last couple of years. With that said, the 7770 is the lowest end card that will make use of the new Cape Verde architecture with the even more wallet friendly 7xxx offerings being more or less 6xxx re-brands.
The 7770 is currently rumored for release sometime in February. Hop past the break for a nice little peak at the 7770′s backside.
