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[Official] HD 7970 Reviews
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Having recently joined ocuk, i've watched the debate become an argument, and subsequently become a fiasco over the last month or so re: predicting what 7970 performance would be.
Ultimately, I saw it as akin to trying to predict the financial markets. Everyone thinks they understand what they're talking about, and that the past is a reliable indicator of the future. We've got grown adults arguing about whether a future graphics card will deliver a 30% or 40% improvement over a current card.
My advice - don't speculate. Just enjoy the games.
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Looks good 
While you are totally right ofcourse... it is a tech forum and that's what happens, people on here love the tech and like to speculate and argue about it
This place would not be fun if we didn't argue!
We enjoy games! but we also like to argue and in particular LOL while reading arguments!
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IF i managed to get a decent resale price on my 580-3GB AND I found one of these for about the same price, I would be tempted to switch, the much lower power consumption for a crossfire rig is appealing
however given all the horror stories about crossfire drivers/support/patches I'm less drawn
will be interesting to see if 7950's will be unlockable again though as they should be at a more interesting price point
however given all the horror stories about crossfire drivers/support/patches I'm less drawn
will be interesting to see if 7950's will be unlockable again though as they should be at a more interesting price point
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Think I'll wait for the 7950 reviews, or at least wait until the custom cooled versions, the noise levels look a bit much for me!
Quite a nice card, will be better if the price can settle a bit.
It does amuse me though with all the people going on about the performance predictions 60, 80% etc. Will be interesting to see the spin once they all wake up
Anyone with a tiny bit of common sense would know that half the crap posted in this subforum was just waffle. About 7 years ago we all use to be able to genuinely predict how good a new gpu would be and if it would be worth upgrading or not. Now its massive discussions on "leaked benchmarks" as if they where gospel, when they are quite clearly fake, yet that never stops too many people on this forum still believing it and causing hype and overestimation...
On topic though:
It seems like a nice card for what it is, which is AMD's answer to a 580GTX. If buying new at the moment with 3gb 580GTX money at hand, it would be a tough choice between one of these, which is arguably more future proof, or an nvidia card which in my opinion has nicer drivers and physicx.
If Nvidia bring out even a fermi based card with the same bandwidth as this 7970, AMD will be in trouble, let alone a new core design entirely. Kepler will be a very interesting chip to watch.
It annoys me that the reviewers don't seem to know what a 3gb 580 card actually is, as all of the ones I've read are comparing a 3gb 7970 against a 1.5gb 580 at high resolutions, which is a bit daft. However, the 7970 does appear to have some really nice DX11 performance over the Nvidia offerings at the moment with tesselation finally done to a level which isn't slower than royal mail second class postage.
It does amuse me though with all the people going on about the performance predictions 60, 80% etc. Will be interesting to see the spin once they all wake up
ROFL... drunkenmaster has a huge hangover today I think and no amount of black coffee is going to help him explain this one. 
By the way we don't argue (much) and most of it is just banter
as below 
He woke up saw the reviews and thought.....
and went back to bed
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While you are totally right ofcourse... it is a tech forum and that's what happens, people on here love the tech and like to speculate and argue about it
Agree with you both - I guess I just saw what was initially productive and constructive debate collapse into name calling etc.
Definitely agree with productive argument though
+1
Even worse is some people attacking other people's so-called "predictions" by calling it a load of bullcrap and then unloading another steaming fresh pile
... Like we could ever know a sufficient to the degree of certainty to do that.Well, am kinda glad I got my Sapphire Toxics for just over £400.
In comparison to the new cards, they are suddenly looking like good value for money!
Not that the new cards are looking bad, but I expected a little more, and the prices are just plain silly.
In comparison to the new cards, they are suddenly looking like good value for money!
Not that the new cards are looking bad, but I expected a little more, and the prices are just plain silly.
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Yet, it will have been in the AMD benchmarking kit that the 7970 should be benched against 1.5gb 580s. Can see that due to no reviewers actually directly benching 3gb 580s in the tests. We'll have to wait for user reviews next month to truly find out how good these actually are.