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Time to wait for Kepler I guess. Honestly, I just hope something better comes out late March.
Seems 40nm -> 28nm doesn't mean very much.
You missed it...
Time to wait for Kepler I guess. Honestly, I just hope something better comes out late March.
Seems 40nm -> 28nm doesn't mean very much.
Usually I'm on board with heatless' logic, but I have to wonder about that as well. However I think his main argument is that the AMD cards don't do 3D, which is his main reason for not upgrading, not necessarily not enough of a performance increase.
Err...up to 60%+ improvement over the prior generation?! Am I missing something here, I'm not understanding all the disappointment here.
Err...up to 60%+ improvement over the prior generation?! Am I missing something here, I'm not understanding all the disappointment here.
Err...up to 60%+ improvement over the prior generation?! Am I missing something here, I'm not understanding all the disappointment here.
20% improvement over a 1 year old card.
No, 20% improvement over a very new OC'ed non-reference card that costs $50 more than the non-OC'ed 7970, not the stock 1 year old card. Like I said, I think comparing the specially OC'ed 580 card was a good idea, but only if the readership actually uses their reading comprehension, which doesn't look to be the case.
Is it that hard to read that they used an "MTD" version of the 580GTX for the sake of testing mutiple display gaming on one video card?
I'll just wait for the 7990 My 6990+6970 setup should hold me over for a while. I'm glad that ATI managed to come out with a superior product with decent drivers that worked with current games instead of waiting for the [H] to test the product and find out that the drivers sucked.
Oh shit a whole 90mhz over the stock on core. Shit that requires a custom card to do, reference can't do that!
The difference would be 1-3FPS maybe 5FPS if you're really lucky. So it has a lead of 21%, damn.
Its not a bad card, I would say its even good. But nothing to go crazy over.
As I said I'm looking forward to what Kepler has to offer vs this. I think it will be worth the wait. That's just my 2 cents (after inflation).
actually, you shouldn't compare the two
a more relevant comparison will be kepler vs. 7970 refresh (which isn't unreasonable to expect in 6 months)
And likely crossfire scaling that'll at least match the 6xxx generation's, which was better than SLi scaling already.
Late March/April = 6 months?
Also, I don't think this card is crap, but I don't think its that great either.
Hmmm, that's a bit of an overstatement. AMD scaling numbers might overall be a bit higher on paper but in practice SLI scaling often just works better, less hitching and oddities. Look at the last reviews of game performance on [H].
Late March/April = 6 months?
Also, I don't think this card is crap, but I don't think its that great either.
Hmmm, that's a bit of an overstatement. AMD scaling numbers might overall be a bit higher on paper but in practice SLI scaling often just works better, less hitching and oddities. Look at the last reviews of game performance on [H].
Nope, its all about Max FPS! Who gives a shit if minimum FPS are bad and it goes up and down a lot, all about the Max FPS!
I wonder if there might be a problem with crossfire.
Generally less microstutter. It's a shame they did not have enough cards to send out for crossfire (which I find odd since they are launching in just a few weeks). I wonder if there might be a problem with crossfire.
Not sure whether to get a 7970 or go with the 580 if they drop in price. I only play at 1080 so....
Same here. I just use my TV as the monitor, so anything above 1920x1080 is moot to me.
So according to the hardware heaven SLI/Xfire review in Eyefinity, here is how the 7970 in Xfire compares to the 580 in SLI @ 5760x1080:
+45% in BF3
-14% in Skyrim
+132% in F1
+56% in Shogun:TW2
+41% in Batman:AA
They don't use canned benchmarks, either. Can't wait for the H review, if those numbers hold up I think that's a pretty significant performance gain.
in F1 benchmark the SLI didnt work or it ran out of RAM.
Where did you read this?One thing that helped with microstuttering on both AMD and Nvidia cards was PCIE 3.0, and oddly one of the only thing that it helps with (sorry Zarathustra, other than helping with microstutter I still think it's damn near useless).
Where did you read this?
One thing that helped with microstuttering on both AMD and Nvidia cards was PCIE 3.0, and oddly one of the only thing that it helps with (sorry Zarathustra, other than helping with microstutter I still think it's damn near useless).
Yeah, there is a problem with crossfire - it's too fast compared to 580 SLI (almost a 50% lead)
...all with almost 100% scaling vs. 1 7970
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...ossfire-performance-review-battlefield-3.html
If you look at the rest of the numbers in that review the scaling isn't nearly that good overall. I do understand new card and drivers though.