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[Official] HD 7970 Reviews

TheRealDeal said:
I am not looking around for the odd freak card that can achieve this. The norm for a gtx580 overclock and added performance is not gonna be anywhere near 40%. I dont see your problem they are not reviewing a gtx580. They showed oc performance on the card they are reviewing. The gains were nice and in no way were meant to make the gtx580 look bad.
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but from a buyers point of view (i have been waiting for this card) a gtx 580 is probably a better buy or wait and see what nvdia brings again (i am however sick of waiting)

I only play bf3 so im waiting to be able to play on ultra settings
 
Cupra said:
but from a buyers point of view (i have been waiting for this card) a gtx 580 is probably a better buy or wait and see what nvdia brings again (i am however sick of waiting)

I only play bf3 so im waiting to be able to play on ultra settings
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For me it will depend on how the pricing settles down and if amd can gain through drivers. I will be moving to ivy bridge next year so i will most likely hold of buying a new gpu until then. Waiting is never fun though. If the 7970 is on the low end of £400 its a decent option v a gtx580.
 
555BUK said:
So, 10% faster than NVidia's top card which has 2 year old Fermi technology.

Good, but not what I was hoping for. Let's hope pricing is reasonable.
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7950 is probably Average Joes' last hope for saving grace, if it is still more or less on par with GTX580 but at a lower power consumption, and a lower price.

The thing is the kind of performance the 7970 put on the table at the moment would be impressive, if the architecture was actually done on the old 40nm process...however, considering with it being faster than the GTX580 only by such a small margin (8~15% faster) despite the huge jump from the 40nm to 28nm process, people can't help but feel that AMD is not utilizing the die shrink effectively, so it certainly reminds people of Bulldozer in that sense...
 
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I don't understand one thing with gpu devs, whenever a next gen card is launched why is it that they are just a few % faster than last gen top-end card? and why is that the real next gen gpu from that company comes right at the end of the current gen cycle?

Ofcourse there are exceptions to this such as 8800gtx or the radeon 9800 pro but as of late it has been the case with both Ati and Nvidia.

I want a next gen card to be just that, next gen! It blows away anything on the market not by 23% on one game who no one plays. If they expect people to pay half a grand on next gen then at least give us something that is worthy of that much.
 
Arclite said:
I don't understand one thing with gpu devs, whenever a next gen card is launched why is it that they are just a few % faster than last gen top-end card? and why is that the real next gen gpu from that company comes right at the end of the current gen cycle?

Ofcourse there are exceptions to this such as 8800gtx or the radeon 9800 pro but as of late it has been the case with both Ati and Nvidia.

I want a next gen card to be just that, next gen! It blows away anything on the market not by 23% on one game who no one plays. If they expect people to pay half a grand on next gen then at least give us something that is worthy of that much.
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Consoles (sadly) dictate the power needed from PC graphics cards and the consoles on the market are old. Games developers make their money from consoles not PC's (due to the licencing laws) They have no interest in giving PC gamers the best they can. (the odd exception comes along though)

Next gen consoles will need next gen graphics and then Nvidia and AMD will provide all the power we need for them. Until then, it's not in their interests to do so. They want to maximize their profits by drip feeding. Which means gradual, small incriminates.

Basic business practice. Unfortunatly.
 
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http://www.hardware.fr/articles/848-22/benchmark-total-war-shogun-2.html
 
That does not sound to offensive to me !...It's that nasty whine noise that drives me insane, if that was fully loaded that's good ;)
 
It seems a nice card. Barring the games preferential to Nvidia or AMD, it looks to be 15-30% faster than a 580 which isn't too bad. After the initial few weeks when nobody buys it for £400+, the price'll come down and I'll grab one hopefully. Look at it more positively, the release of this card'll drive the price of the GTX580 down to reasonable levels too, could get one of those instead!
 
Seems like a decent card if you ask me, considering how early they're releasing it. I bought my 5870 soon after release and sold it recently, but I didn't feel I had it for very long at all, compared to past cards I've had. I think the 5870 should be considered it's true predecessor and compared to that the performance increase is pretty much what we expect these days. Just look at the performance jumps within the last few generations, they're getting smaller and smaller, for both AMD and Nvidia. That said, I've noticed that the gap slowly grows after the initial release of the card due to a combination of maturing drivers and newer games making better use of the newer tech, so I fully expect that by the end of 2012, we will see the 7970 slowly pull away from the 6970/580.

Personally, I will hold out for a month or two, wait for prices to drop and drivers to mature, but even now, it's wouldn't be a bad purchase by any means.
 
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