GreenGoose
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how very un-[H] of you
Lol. Agreed. I have GTX 580's in SLI and I'm ready for an upgrade! I wish Kepler was sooner but I'll go AMD this round.
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how very un-[H] of you
I want to be excited about this card, even if it's only 50% faster than a 6970. However, the fact that there is no software out there (or will there be for a while), and the $500-550 price will likely compel me to sit this one out. I just can't justify spending money on this card to play Skyrim and BF3 when my 6970s already push these games at high FPS with the settings floored.
you do realize this is a new architecture right? It is not the same stream processors, it is a brand new GCN architecture. You can read about it on anandtech if you want. So until all the details come out about the chip we cant really talk about the transistors gain vs stream processor gain. There is a lot of new stuff in it than just increased number of stream processors, even they are not the same.
I've just read an article that the 7970 will be 30% faster than the 6970 and will launch on December 22.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/21931..._than_6970_launches_on_december_22/index.html
Notice the slide posted is under "embago". Either AMD can't figure out how to run spell check, or the slide is fake.I've just read an article that the 7970 will be 30% faster than the 6970 and will launch on December 22.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/21931..._than_6970_launches_on_december_22/index.html
I've just read an article that the 7970 will be 30% faster than the 6970 and will launch on December 22.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/21931..._than_6970_launches_on_december_22/index.html
I've just read an article that the 7970 will be 30% faster than the 6970 and will launch on December 22.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/21931..._than_6970_launches_on_december_22/index.html
I want to be excited about this card, even if it's only 50% faster than a 6970. However, the fact that there is no software out there (or will there be for a while), and the $500-550 price will likely compel me to sit this one out. I just can't justify spending money on this card to play Skyrim and BF3 when my 6970s already push these games at high FPS with the settings floored.
It will be, the tweaktown article is wrong. If a card was going to be released December 22nd, why would the NDA lift be three weeks later? 50% will be about right.
What I want to know, what have they done to get the idle board power down to 3W? That's low enough to run semi-passive (and I would hope that if this is true, that is actually how the cards operate [I have my doubts]).
The HD7970 is never going to be an HD6990 beater, but it should compare to HD5870 crossfire setups favourably. Remember, the HD5870 could take on the HD4870X2, but it could not best two GTX285s. Likewise, the GTX280 could take on the 9800GX2, but not two 8800 Ultras.
New generations can equal the previous generation's first iteration of a dual-GPU card, but never in history have they been able to best the previous generation's best dual-GPU card.
I went from two 8800 ultras to two gtx285s and the performance gain was so small I returned both gtx285s. I ended up finally replacing the two ultras with one 5870 and the performance improvement was substantial. The GTX280s & 285s were weak as fuck improvements compared to their 8800 ultra predecessor.
Not really, sounds like you had a CPU limitation problem. SLI does take a hit on your CPU performance, always has.
I hope the 7970 is more than 30% faster than the 6970, because if thats true, thats kinda disappointing. I expect it to be as fast as the 6990 and 590.
If you can't notice the difference in the real world then it doesn't matter which is why I'm saying he is being pedantic. Also I pointed out benches have been done over and over again on this subject and were only a google away, nothing I'm saying is shocking or anecdotal.Preferring engineering facts to anecdotes isn't being pedantic.
Notice the slide posted is under "embago". Either AMD can't figure out how to run spell check, or the slide is fake.
oh hell yes this taskbar positioning thing is a deal maker for me
amd often spell nda stuff wrong to find leaks.
Wait a sec, that picture shows 3 different monitors of 3 different sizes in Eyefinity? Does that mean you can now run Eyefinity on monitors of different resolution? Is this new, or have you been able to do it for a while and I just missed it?
You can always run eyefinity with different monitors, however what we havent been able to do as far is to scale it to the other monitors properly.
so now it seems they adapt to the other screens to support the main monitors resolution.
That has to be fake. Anyone expecting that kind of performance gain is going to be disappointed.
That has to be fake. Anyone expecting that kind of performance gain is going to be disappointed.
60% faster than a GTX580 is slightly optimistic given the rumored SP count, but it's not entirely out of line either.
In 3DMark 11
We managed to score some fresh info on the performance of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7970 card. Of course, as it was the case with previous performance figures we wrote about, these are only 3DMark 11 figures and are done with the first "usable" driver, but gives at least some insight about the performance that can only get better once the final driver shows up.
When compared to the HD 6970, the HD 7970 is around 50 percent faster in 3DMark 11 Extreme test. It scores around 2800 points while the HD 6970 can get up to around 1800 points. The HD 6990 scores around 3400 points in the same test, but according to our sources, HD 7970 is more than happy with a good OC that draws the card an inch away from the HD 6990. The previously reported 30ish percent was probably taken from 3DMark 11 Entry setting test where all the cards are closer in performance.
We were also told about the 3DMark 11 Performance setting performance that ends up on par with the HD 6990 but we aren't sure if these are with or without OC.
These numbers also mean that the HD 7970 ends up faster than the Nvidia GTX 590 in some cases. Of course, as always, take these numbers with a grain of salt as final driver could change a thing or two, but we guess that we'll know for sure on 22nd of Dec
I'm not sure what "Multiple independent audio streams" is supposed to mean, as I can obviously already have multiple audio devices going simultaneously without issue (ex: Ventrilo, Mumble, Foobar2000, and a game).
Is this talking about people who use their ghetto LCD speakers being able to have each LCD playing different audio via HDMI? If so can you say *yawn*?
That has to be fake. Anyone expecting that kind of performance gain is going to be disappointed.
That's why they wrote UP TO, it's already implied.That 1,6 x GTX580 power CAN be the truth in the best case, but not necessarily as a "constant power".
That has to be fake. Anyone expecting that kind of performance gain is going to be disappointed.