Recent content by tannat

This is a very long thread (+1000 posts) with problems reported for a lot of cards.

It's bound for January. Expect around HD5850 speed, or even HD6870.

Yeah, it's hard to not suggest a HD6950 right now as they can be flashed. Maybe slightly over budget though.

Agreed, thats an indication that this will stay.No proof though.

Its a question of yield. Perfect yield would show all HD6950s work. This is of course not likely. See GTX cards as dominant example :) I can' t understand why 3xSli have been discussed in a thread about unlocking shaders in HD6950 btw...

Actually I think it took 3 revisions. And from that you can calculate the time it takes to WHQL a driver. There were never a hotfix for that so we all had to wait for Microsoft getting their thumb... It was also the first problem that actually annoyed me with AMD drivers since 2008. I never...

Yeah, always a lottery. The unrewritable second bios will make it easy to just go back to vanilla though. Quite bulletproof

So that's what the second bios is for? http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2130396 Not really surprised. Nice anyway.

These are minor stuff that probably will be addressed in a beta first. Main reason why it takes long time with both nvidia and AMD drivers is microsoft. The time for getting a driver through WHQL is several months I think.

If HD6970 is on level of HD5970 that would be fantastic. And something that have never happened on the same processnode. Dissapointment? Some are never satisfied :)

Yes, you say that HD6950 needs to be 10% faster than GTX480 to match GTX570. That's GTX580 territory and do not make sense.

This is actually sensible, Whatever they did to improve utilization of shaders in Barts I would expect to carry over to Cayman to a large degree. Remember initial rumours that NI (Then SI) would have evergreen shaders but utilize NI architecture improvements, NI shaders would come later. That's...

I get kicks out of engineering excellence. HD6870 is really a marvel as compared to GTX460 that has 50% larger die size but distinctly lower performance. So voting with my heart there is really no competition. Thinking with wallet GTX460 is an obvious deal though.

I do think they have to keep to 1,2GB for 570. The smaller memory buss is there for a cost reason and these cards are not memory bound except in a few odd circumstances. We are talking around 10% faster than HD6870 which have an even smaller bus width.

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