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AMD HD7770 PR Stunt ?

dave_beast said:
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The secret is in the meds, man. It's meant to be overclocked.

It's actually this sort of PR I don't like, as they are encouraging people to use Crossfire. That was how I got burnt into believing that 2 5770s were as quick or quicker than a 5870.

On paper they sure are. And I would imagine that's their angle here.. £300 or so buys you 7970 power. Only it doesn't unless you like benchmarking.

Mind you what am I saying? they should be a sure fire hit lol.
 
rolypolyman said:
Those specs are very dissappointing. The 5770 was putting out 72gb/s bandwidth FFS and how old are they. I think AMD have lost the plot.:confused:
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I agree. They seem woefully underpowered for a supposed new generation.

Mind you no one has given them a proper testing yet.

The 4770 was a huge success for Crossfiring, as was the 5770. It was a cheap way to get high end performance*

I would imagine that is the premise behind the 7770.

*if and when it ever works properly.
 
I think they're trying to make up for that with raw clock speeds.

Apparently that 1ghz thing is down to the cards being 1ghz out of the box (which is supposedly a first in the GPU market).

We also need to remember that they are only 120 euros. If they come in at £100? they will fly off the shelves.

They're faster than a 550ti and apparently the 6850 quote - "Failed to keep pace" so they are an entry level card.
 
Well to be fair, I forgot the old HD5700/6700 series were all VLIW5, so there should be at least 15-20% gain to be had, shader for shader, from a move to GCN.

But still, I think AMD should be targeting the HD6800 series in terms of performance for these, and if they come in slower than their HD6700/5700 brethren then it really is a monumental bucket of fail.
 
They do seem faster than the 5770 (which counts the 6770 as it was a rebrand it seems).

But. And there is a but. The benchmarks are using the new Ivybridge I5. So yes, it does seem pretty darn disappointing right now !

I think AMD are deliberately holding back their true mid range cards in order to cram as many sales out of the 7970 and 7950 as they can. I think they realise that once they release cards that can be paired up to give their high end cards a kicking (for less money, all theoretically and synthetically of course !) the expensive game will be pretty much up and it will be time to drop 79xx prices.
 
I love the 5770... still using one to date and loving it. In BF3 it does ok for me. 1440*900 native, 2xAA and medium settings... still looks great
 
1280 shaders on the 7770 seems awfully high. = Positive. But I find it wayyy too high, will be interesting if it really is that many.
Priced higher than current 6870's too as can be had for 125-140 = Bad.
 
To be fair, what Gibbo said seems more likely and I also trust him to get this kinda thing right over a "leak".
 
AMD seemed to have got a bit lost with the 7000 series. I was going to wait for one but in the end found a 6950 overclocked to 6970 speeds fine for my needs. Not quite sure how they replace the 6000 series in the main for the prices so far.

Maybe a price drop is round the corner.
 
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