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I am not sure where the charts came from, but highly doubt they are going to beat the 580GTX like that. Ive been reading the 7970 is 30% faster then a 6970. Off the top of my head i dont remember how a 6970 stacks up against a 580gtx, but ive been under the impression the 580GTX is the fastest single card solution.
I can give you a hint, it's the one of the most annoying topics. (between us, it is)
30% faster than a 6970 for a card with 1GB more memory, TWO die shrinks, a new architecture, and a rumored $500 price tag?
not a chance, it'll be way more than 30%
[H]ardware pr0n
Looks insane at eyefinity resolutions.
Wow, look at those crossfire numbers. Scaling is absurd and this screams Eyefinity goodness.
Wow, look at those crossfire numbers. Scaling is absurd and this screams Eyefinity goodness.
Hm, now those recent benchmarks look realistic. I am mixed on some of the improvements. 7970 definitely won't be faster than a 6990.
Only 5% faster than a 580 in Skyrim.
I like how they compare a 1.5GB 580 at 7600x1600. I think it is quite obvious that 1.5GB 580 can't run that resolution sufficiently and it shows in those charts. 3GB 580s would have been interesting to compare to.
7970 is about 27% faster than the relatively same 6970/580 in BF3. That definitely is not impressive. It seems the two games I play the most (BF3 and Skyrim) gain the least with the 7970. Not sure if it would be much of an upgrade from a 6990. Although, I may buy 2x 7970's and pit them against the 6990 in Eyefinity to see how they compare. Although the 7970's will only be running in 2.0 8x speed slots.
Internal tests have the card reaching 1.2Ghz core clock.
27% faster than the best of the best right now, that really does suck!
That is some sweet overclock. Hopefully something like that is routinely attainable.
If you think a 5% Skyrim increase and a 27% BF3 increase for an entirely new GPU release is great performance, you must be easily impressed.
Yes, they are supposed benchmarks. I bet they will turn out to be fairly accurate though. Also, the "wait for new drivers" argument has never worked and it won't work here. The AMD driver team has spent months on drivers for the new GPUs. Then again, the AMD driver team are known for dropping the ball.
Hm, now those recent benchmarks look realistic. I am mixed on some of the improvements. 7970 definitely won't be faster than a 6990.
Only 5% faster than a 580 in Skyrim.
I like how they compare a 1.5GB 580 at 7600x1600. I think it is quite obvious that 1.5GB 580 can't run that resolution sufficiently and it shows in those charts. 3GB 580s would have been interesting to compare to.
7970 is about 27% faster than the relatively same 6970/580 in BF3. That definitely is not impressive. It seems the two games I play the most (BF3 and Skyrim) gain the least with the 7970. Not sure if it would be much of an upgrade from a 6990. Although, I may buy 2x 7970's and pit them against the 6990 in Eyefinity to see how they compare. Although the 7970's will only be running in 2.0 8x speed slots.
It's not like the drivers aren't going to be further optimized. It's a new freaking architecture for cripes sake. Plus your taking phantom benchmarks as gospel from some slides..pointless to be impressed/not impressed at this point until we see official benchmarks...jeeeezzz.
But those games already had perfect x2 Crossfire/SLI scaling
I do hope that [H]ard|OCP can afford some more 2560x1600 monitors to put this claim to test (and also compare against GTX 580 3GB).
Here is another specilation where it could be 60% faster than GTX 580
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=37TFTYDX
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H86KSABC
NDA HD 7970 22 december 2011 06:00 CET.
NDA HD 7950 09 januari 2011 06:00 CET.
Retail price HD 7970: 549 dollar
Some more leaks with specs and price.
http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=145785&postcount=2261
That's a really good point 6watts sounds much better than 60 (especially for those who leave their [main] pc on 24/7). It will also mean that those 'batmobile' heat-sinks could be close to silent until they're being pushed to the limits (they were previously too loud for me to live with).Even more impressive is how much the power savings will be in Crossfire mode.