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[Official] HD 7970 Reviews

ATIorNvidia said:
AMD aren't playing catch up, the 7970 is the fastest GPU currently available, and it beats the GTX 580 in everything.
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Yea...took them a year before they could overtake the GTX580.

As mentioned by other people above- moving onto 28nm process and still only on average 8-10% faster, and at a higher price. So basically bang for bucks wise it is harder better than the GTX580, considering people have to pay the extra money for those extra speed.

Also, do bare in mind GTX580 was selling at as low as £320~£340 at one point...and how much is 7970 going to cost again? Something like around £400~£500? Very poor value if you ask me, for the 8-10% extra speed.

People that bought the GTX580 early and been using it all these time are the clear winners.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Yea...took them a year before they could overtake the GTX580.

As mentioned by other people above- moving onto 28nm process and still only on average 8-10% faster, and at a higher price. So basically bang for bucks wise it is harder better than the GTX580, considering people have to pay the extra money for those extra speed.

Also, do bare in mind GTX580 was selling at as low as £320~£340 at one point...and how much is 7970 going to cost again? Something like around £400~£500? Very poor value if you ask me, for the 8-10% extra speed.

People that bought the GTX580 early and been using it all these time are the clear winners.
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It's priced higher because its faster than the GTX 580. Why WOULDN'T they price it higher? Do you think AMD is a charity? Do you think that the 28nm process is maxed out with 7970?

Again, AMD aren't here to appease your enthusiast mindset. People who want the fastest GPU available, that is priced closely to the 3GB GTX 580 (and beats it in everything) are also winners. :)
 
ATIorNvidia said:
It's priced higher because its faster than the GTX 580. Why WOULDN'T they price it higher? Do you think AMD is a charity? Do you think that the 28nm process is maxed out with 7970?
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You are clearing missing my point! I'm not saying AMD should price the 7970 as low as the GTX580...I was merely pointing out they are not really better bang for bucks than the GTX580. Take a chill-pill :p

If 7950 can beat the GTX580 by a little and is priced lower (say...<£300), then it would be a better bang for bucks card.

Actually come to think of it 6970 wasn't very good value as well...may be we should just wait for 7950 instead and see what it delivers. Fingers-cross for that the 7950 being only 3% slower than the 7970 on the same clock speed (same as 6950 vs 6970), but priced at £100 lower :P
 
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ATIorNvidia said:
3GB GTX 580 (and beats it in everything) are also winners. :)
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It does not beat it in everything even a 1.5GB GTX 580 beats it in some benchmarks, check the reviews mate and check the reviews with 1920 x 1200 or 1920 x 1080, you will see the 7970 is not the fastest in everything.

What we are saying is anyone with a GTX 580 can forget this release and wait for the next top end cards from either AMD or Nvidia, otherwise you are throwing money into an empty pit for a max 8%-10% boost at the more common HD resolutions.

This release is really good for people with single 58xx series AMD cards and lower or Nvidia equivalent, people with crossfire 68xx/69xx or SLI 560 Ti's and higher dual card setups they need to forget this release too if they are happy with their dual card setups.
 
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Just to remind everyone...

Value wise the 7970 isn't going to be great when considering the price, just like the 6970 comparing to 6950, 5870 comparing to 5850 when they were launched.

7950 should be the one we should wait for. Pray that it is at <£300.
 
Purgatory said:
It does not beat it in everything even a 1.5GB GTX 580 beats it in some benchmarks, check the reviews mate and check the reviews with 1920 x 1200 or 1920 x 1080, you will see the 7970 is not the fastest in everything.

What we are saying is anyone with a GTX 580 can forget this release and wait for the next top end cards from either AMD or Nvidia. Otherwise you are throwing money into an empty pit for a max 8%-10% boost at the more common HD resolutions.

This release is really good for people with single 58xx series AMD cards and lower, people with crossfire 68xx/69xx or SLI 560 Ti's and higher dual card setups they need to forget this release too if they are happy with their dual card setups.
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The only times the GTX 580 can beat it is in Nvidia-friendly games. That TPU review is the only review where I'm seeing it so close to the GTX 580... most other reviews are showing a 15-30% boost depending on the title. The 7970 also has higher overclocking room, and is still on immature drivers.

Of course people with high end Corssfire setups can forget this card. Even if it was twice as fast as a 6970, there would be no need to upgrade if you had two 6950's/GTX 560Ti's or higher.
 
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http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/2472/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review
http://www.ixbt.com/video3/tahiti-part2.shtml
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-Video-Card-Review/1458
http://*****.net/tech/reviews/graphics/33031-amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb/
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http://www.overclockers.com/amd-radeon-hd-7970-graphics-card-review/
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http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970/
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-28nm-Tahiti-GPU-Review/
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-3GB-Graphics-Card-Review-Tahiti-28nm/
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7970-benchmark-tahiti-gcn,3104.html
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/graphics-cards/1289251/amd-radeon-hd-7970
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1805/1/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/amd-hd7970-graphics-card-review/
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/AMD_HD_7970/
http://www.lesnumeriques.com/carte-graphique/generic-amd-radeon-hd-7970-3-go-p12460/test.html
http://widescreengamingforum.com/article/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review-benchmarking
 
Just reading the overclockers review (first I see with overclocking) and it seems like AMD played very conservative with the stock frequencies. No voltage increase, just power tune and they stuck 200MHz on the core and memory :o

Easy to turn attention to Keplar but I think it will get very interesting when the public get their hands on these. Dual bios switch again...
 
for me it will be either a 7970 or 7950 with a second one a couple of months down the line. What is really disappointing is the 3DVI port FUD! I wish this was there. Hopefully some non-reference ones will surface - i.e. the FUD was around an ASUS one I think - fingers crossed!

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/graphics-cards/1289251/amd-radeon-hd-7970/2

Using AMD's Overdrive utility, we pushed the card up to 1,125MHz core speed and 1,575MHz memory speed, which saw our Crysis 2 test leap up to a huge 57.3fps - even faster than the HD 6990's 53fps. The card sounded like it was going to take off when running at these speeds, though.
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Price £420
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Going to be expensive! But still in budget (only one unfortunately) for my build!
 
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