Chiphell: Early 9970 qualification sample Firestrike extreme score

[Lorien]

http://www.chiphell.com/thread-831155-1-1.html
Early qualification sample Firestrike extreme score: 4816
No mention of system specs whatsoever but in the comments they talk about the card not running hotter than 60C at full load. This might be the result of the new redesigned cooler, being in a well ventilated factory floor and the qualification sample's low clocks.


Looks like we have a Titan killer here, but as always take it with a grain of salt.

Titan scores from several reviews

 

[dragonstongue]

I look forward to it, as long as the prices are ok, I really love my MSI TFIII 7870 as it stands am only playing 1080p so something like this I could probably downclock and have the same performance while reducing power/temps by a very good margin.

 

[eloj]

I don't want something in the same price class as the titan :-(

 

[{NG}Fidel]

I agree, a GTX780 killer at better cost would be more attractive to me. Although I don't mind them showing up to the Titan game, I hope this isn't the only release on their part.

 

[GoldenTiger]

GPU score 5152, impressive... wonder if these will be volt-unlocked and 780-ish price + the rumored BF4 bundle? If so they'll be damned good.

 

[fixedmy7970]

yes yes AMD! ok...

I can't wait to see some more benches

 

[GoldenTiger]

Thread on chiphell says that the score is oc'd... Videocardz.com has a new article too saying that is the case if it's even real, but it should be a solid 25% over the 7970 ghz: http://videocardz.com/45324/possible-specs-of-the-amd-volcanic-islands-hawaii-gpu

 

[blade52x]

I thought I remember getting over 5K on my Titan overclocked... I'll have to double check when I get home later today.

 

[dragonstongue]

don't forget engineering sample AND driver optimizations might throw this number higher as well, cannot wait to see the 9870 performance levels as the lineup bottom to top is getting tweaked and more overall performance levels, they have not really done this before to boost the overall front ends, rops etc let alone pushing the FLOPS by a large margin for anything below the x8xx line really.

 

[Mtom]

don't forget engineering sample AND driver optimizations might throw this number higher as well, cannot wait to see the 9870 performance levels as the lineup bottom to top is getting tweaked and more overall performance levels, they have not really done this before to boost the overall front ends, rops etc let alone pushing the FLOPS by a large margin for anything below the x8xx line really.

Agreed, the 7XXX cards had a big boost from new drivers!
Also so far the 9870 (or R9 D870 whatever) will be basically the 7970 AFAIK...so id say, around or bit over 7970ish levels...