Zarathustra[H]
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I wouldn't call this a doorstop
Thats ~50% higher score than my two 6970's at stock speeds on my [email protected]...
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I wouldn't call this a doorstop
Sapphire HD7970 FLEX 6G will be one expensive card. I wonder how far it will overclock, especially the memory.
Why would it be particularly expensive? RAM is relatively cheap. Call it +$100?
6gb alone could increase the price by 100, next you have SIX mini-dp ports (6 displays, single card) and you got one hell of an expensive card.
Wait...
Sapphire is going to have a 7970 that comes @ 1335 on the core out of the box?
Wait...
Sapphire is going to have a 7970 that comes @ 1335 on the core out of the box?
Anywho, I'm going to buy the 7970 that has the highest quality voltage regulation and drop that baby under WC.
Why would it be particularly expensive? RAM is relatively cheap. Call it +$100?
It depends on whether or not the reference PCB allows memory on the backside, more than likely it doesn't, which means a custom PCB, more so since I haven't seen any company use die/package stacking for GDDR5.
Thinking about the clocks on the to Atomic 7970s, I wonder if Sapphire will use dual 8pin connectors.
What's so expensive about having 6 mini-dps? The normal cards have 4 video ports. Yes, it's going to command a premium, simply from having the extra VRAM, but it shouldn't command much more of a premium than that.
So Agree with this statement. Water-cooling should be the standard on the high end. It is a PITA to find a block for a non-reference card, and the price for a block with a new card borders obscene.According to that picture, Sapphire will be doing a card with in-built water cooling.
Having read the article on the PNY Geforce 580 with water cooling, I don't know why high-end cards don't come with it as standard now.
The review stated the 7970 was near silent and cool at load and could still be OCed w/o any voltage increase. Unless you want to go mad [H] OC crazy, why go for the big $$$ to WC?
looks like a solid card. My wallet doesnt agree. Waiting on the green team for a rebuttal.
According to that picture, Sapphire will be doing a card with in-built water cooling.
Having read the article on the PNY Geforce 580 with water cooling, I don't know why high-end cards don't come with it as standard now.
so if these cards can get up to 1,300 on the GPU, that should be in the same league as a 6990
so that means when you compare 2 x 7970 to 2 x 6990 you'd get:
- far better performance due to superior scaling with 2 GPU's vs. 4 GPU's
- far less power & heat
- the option to add another 7970 that you can't do with quad-fire 6990's
- immense compute performance
...all for $300 less - freaking awesome in my book
Man, since it appears like these bad boys will overclock like crazy, what are the chances of an overclocked 7970 beating out two GTX 580's SLI in performance? Is that even remotely possible?
What I did notice is the colours in games seemed more vivid on the ATI cards which to my eyes was more pleasing, I felt the ATI card gave a visually better gaming experience.
I know that there have been countless reviews ad nauseum, but I don't believe anyone has mentioned this in their gtx 580 versus 7970 comparison, which I find quite interesting:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18357459
At Beyond3D forums, Dave Baumann explained why they decided to launch earlier than originally planned.The weird part is that it is entirely unnecessary for AMD to paper launch a product.
Dave Baumann said:And this is largely driven by the timing relative to the holiday period. With both product shipping now and samples having to go to press pre-Christmas leaving that amount of time was bound to create leaks and some reviews going early; this thread over the last week or so is a testiment to the lack of respect over embargo material given to certain parties, leaving it another 2 weeks would have been a lot worse in that respect.
According to that picture, Sapphire will be doing a card with in-built water cooling.
Having read the article on the PNY Geforce 580 with water cooling, I don't know why high-end cards don't come with it as standard now.
So Agree with this statement. Water-cooling should be the standard on the high end. It is a PITA to find a block for a non-reference card, and the price for a block with a new card borders obscene.
So they refuse to announce Bulldozer specs because doing so would cannibalize sales of existing products, but they are fine announcing the new video card early? I'm sure it has nothing to do with Bulldozer sucking and the 7970 rocking.
A LOT of high end users don't run WC....completely disagree with these statements.
It has to do with partners announcing their product line up at ces
Fry's has an Asus 7970 listed at $600
http://www.frys.com/product/6936977?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
Fry's has an Asus 7970 listed at $600
http://www.frys.com/product/6936977?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG