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[Official] HD 7970 Reviews

panyan said:
what do you mean? :)
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There's an obscene amount of bullsh*t in this thread.

We've had one guy say Nvidia are still in front, and another saying its not a top end card etc etc. The smacktard retardedness is mind blowing.

AMD have brought a new architecture, which on its first drivers is faster, quieter and much less power hungry than its competitors current best and people are posting stupid stuff like that.

Nvidia's next top end card to best their own 580 is months and months away, by that time AMD will have mature drivers and probably a hardware respin out.
 
I game at 1080P, no plans to go any higher for years. For me the 7970 is a disappointment, it excels at higher resolutions but not so much at lower ones. The 7950 will be most likely the same in that respect.

Now we all know Crossfire is a bit unreliable, and the 7950s will be more than what a GTX570 costs now. So I'm thinking of selling my 5850s and getting two GTX570s in SLI.


kitch9 said:
Nvidia's next top end card to best their own 580 is months and months away, by that time AMD will have mature drivers and probably a hardware respin out.
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AMD drivers have always been less than perfect though
 
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James J said:
Gaming is the main reason for this graphics card, just like every other high end consumer release since the 90s. Compute/GPGPU is just a nice addition, yet gaming performance is what people buy gcards for.
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Not really, the main focus of this architecutre is Compute performance, not gaming performance.
 
You would think it's a rubbish card the way Nvidia's Kepler fanboys have ranted on in this thread,i bet half of you only play solitaire:eek:
 
Gaming performance looks good in the reviews, it's a single card competing with all the dual GPU cards and the power consumption is a fraction of those which is a win in my book. Price is understandable but too much for me, maybe wait for 78xx series.

kitch is right there is some fair BS in this thread :)
 
kitch9 said:
There's an obscene amount of bullsh*t in this thread.

We've had one guy say Nvidia are still in front, and another saying its not a top end card etc etc. The smacktard retardedness is mind blowing.

AMD have brought a new architecture, which on its first drivers is faster, quieter and much less power hungry than its competitors current best and people are posting stupid stuff like that.

Nvidia's next top end card to best their own 580 is months and months away, by that time AMD will have mature drivers and probably a hardware respin out.
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About sums it up.

It won't be long before people have these 7970's overclocked to within a hairs breath of a GTX590 looking at the early figures of basic overclocks with no extra volts.. Won't seem so expensive then, will it?
 
I thought this was excellent from HARDOCP

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HEADRAT
 
I think what we overlook is ATI's advances over their previous card, which are very good ;)

I don't know what die shrinks are worth efficiency wise, but looks to me like they are leaning pretty hard on this new architecture to make the numbers.

With the card being pretty power efficient why is the cooler so bad ? maybe vapour chambers don't work upside down ?......I've always wanted an explanation of that one :D
 
kitch9 said:
There's an obscene amount of bullsh*t in this thread.

We've had one guy say Nvidia are still in front, and another saying its not a top end card etc etc. The smacktard retardedness is mind blowing.

AMD have brought a new architecture, which on its first drivers is faster, quieter and much less power hungry than its competitors current best and people are posting stupid stuff like that.

Nvidia's next top end card to best their own 580 is months and months away, by that time AMD will have mature drivers and probably a hardware respin out.
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Plus one to that. Can't believe the Nvidia fanboy crap that is being spewed out by some. The 7970 is the faster card, that cannot be denied.

Yes it's performance seems underwhelming in some areas (Dirt 3 for example), but very fast in others (ARMA II). BF3 and Skyrim performance seems inconsistent across review sites.

It remains to be seen how much better performance could get with more mature drivers and unlimited overclocking. It won't be for everyone, but it seems possible that a 7970 could end up beating a 6990 in a number of games when given the full beans with more mature drivers, so long as the memory bandwidth doesn't become a bottleneck (see image below):

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I only say more mature drivers could deliver much better performance because this is a completely new architecture, and that's the only reason.
 
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i'm an eyefinity gamer, and those %ages that headrat posted encourage me. still undecided on what to do really, wouldn't mind going to single card again as my current setup can be a right whore when it wants to be :p
 
So as I assumed it basically costs what it's worth and nothing more.

Still, nice to see them at it :) will definitely make the price wars interesting, that's for sure.
 
Bobisuruncle54 said:
The 7970 is the faster card, that cannot be denied.

i agree, a very fast card

Yes it's performance seems underwhelming in some areas (Dirt 3 for example), but very fast in others (ARMA II).

underwhelming considering the hype and specs i think

so long as the memory bandwidth doesn't become a bottleneck.

i thought 3GB would be more than enough?
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i agree, it is a very good card, but im feeling underwhelmed at its performance, i was hoping it would wipe the floor with a 580 considering the new architecture and so much vram
 
Infact no. I retract my statement slightly. It isn't worth what it's worth.

At the very best it's about 30% faster than a 580. However, it costs 30% more than a 580. And at worst it is 9% faster according to the pic above, so yeah, over priced.

But then hey, it's a new item so we knew it would be expensive :)
 
:rolleyes:

ITS FASTER THAN A 3GB 580 AT THE SAME PRICE. DOES NOTHING PLEASE YOU LOT?

:p

But seriously. What a card. Might get one to beat my precious OC record. 1GHz on a 580 1.5GB :D
 
Not really what I was expecting, but as all new cards more mature drivers will bring in some improvements. Hopefully it will bring the performance levels closer to the 6990.

What really interests me is the ZCP. I sometimes leave my PC on over night for a few downloads, so ZCP stopping the fan will help make my nights more silent ;).

About time they inlcuded an active adapter to DVI too! Very handy for Eyefinity users.

But that price... considering it's got no proper competition apart from last gen dual GPU cards, it's understandable. But for the performance it gives, it's too overpriced. I just hope Keplar will help drop the price... and it makes me wonder how well Keplar will perform.
 
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