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AMD HD7770 PR Stunt ?

Martini1991 said:
The 5770 and 4870 trade blows, one isn't indefinitely faster than the other. They also both came in 512 and 1GB variants.
For 120 people are expecting a generation of improvement (Or even two generations of improvement) over the 5770, what we've gotten is pathetic.
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Well you haven't gotten it quite yet, but yes, it does seem pretty lame.

Mind you, apparently it kicks the 550ti's back end so hey, horses for courses and all that.

You can't really expect much out of a £120 at launch GPU apart from plenty of sodium chloride to wash away the hyperbole. Or is it Verdetrol?
 
Well compared to my 4850, the fill rate has increased by 60% and bandwidth by 20%, so 'if' i went for this, it would be quite a nice upgrade...
 
Cooper said:
Well compared to my 4850, the fill rate has increased by 60% and bandwidth by 20%, so 'if' i went for this, it would be quite a nice upgrade...
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And real world performance gain?
It's going to be like going from a 4850 to a 4890..
The 6870 is a much better upgrade.

ALXAndy said:
Well you haven't gotten it quite yet, but yes, it does seem pretty lame.

Mind you, apparently it kicks the 550ti's back end so hey, horses for courses and all that.

You can't really expect much out of a £120 at launch GPU apart from plenty of sodium chloride to wash away the hyperbole. Or is it Verdetrol?
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I don't see how you can attempt any spin on this.
 
Martini1991 said:
The 5770 and 4870 trade blows, one isn't indefinitely faster than the other. They also both came in 512 and 1GB variants.
For 120 people are expecting a generation of improvement (Or even two generations of improvement) over the 5770, what we've gotten is pathetic.
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indeed.. after 2 and a half years, you think it would be considerably faster!
 
CinderzFTW said:
indeed. its like the 5870 and 6870...

a generation later and the 5870 is faster the newer version... AMD FAIL AGAIN!
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Kind of different, AMD revised their naming scheme, and the 6870 as far as a mid range card went, was pretty good. The 69XX was the successor to the 58XX.
We were also locked in on 40nm.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
People expect
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They certainly do. So maybe the correct way to go about it would be to expect little and then maybe be pleasantly surprised?

Glass half full sort of day and all that.

Of course no one actually knows for certain they are just making assumptions, myself included.

I'm sure we will find out tomorrow. TBH 99% of these discussions had here on this forum are all a completely pointless exercise.

The only way to know for sure is to wait until it comes out.
 
Martini1991 said:
And real world performance gain?
It's going to be like going from a 4850 to a 4890..
The 6870 is a much better upgrade.
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Yeah,had a brain fart , on reflection it's POS..:o,and an overpriced one at that, It's a £99 card really.

With a £150 max spend on a Gfx card thesedays, i can do a lot better than a 7770.
 
Martini1991 said:
It makes it under 6850 performance at a price tag of the 6870.
Gibbo said twice the shader count :confused:
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It doesn't work like that, the 68** are EOL.

Prices of 6870's now have no bearing on new technology - The industry doesn't work like that, >.<

AMD are releasing their new line up of cards bit by bit, AIB's have probably stopped 68** cards completely now.
 
dave_beast said:
It doesn't work like that, the 68** are EOL.

Prices of 6870's now have no bearing on new technology - The industry doesn't work like that, >.<

AMD are releasing their new line up of cards bit by bit, AIB's have probably stopped 68** cards completely now.
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Price/performance has still lowered.
Also, the 7770 is a replacement for the 6770/5770, arguably it's 2 generations ahead. The 68XX is a reference to performance available at that price point right now.
 
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Martini1991 said:
Price/performance has still lowered.
Also, the 7770 is a replacement for the 6770/5770, arguably it's 2 generations ahead. The 68XX is a reference to performance available at that price point right now.
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Your argument is invalid as 6870 is last gen and EOL, but hey, have you seen the 7770 benchmarks?
 
dave_beast said:
Your argument is invalid as 6870 is last gen and EOL, but hey, have you seen the 7770 benchmarks?
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We'll wait and see.
And the 6870 being last gen doesn't really mean much as it's still a current card, plenty in stock, readily available etc.
But hey, if you think it's fine to pay more for lower performance simply because it's "New" then be my guess to preach it.

Who exactly would buy a 7770, what is the point in it at its current price?
When the 6870 wasn't EOL, it could have been had for like 130-140 (I bought two a few months ago at 120 a pop brand new), which looks to be what the 7770 is set to launch at, but have lower end performance, how is that good for the consumer?
 
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ALXAndy said:
Well I just spotted something that seems awful strange.

http://videocardz.com/30043/radeon-hd-7770-pictured-again-and-tested

Are the leaked benchmarks. However, CCC shows that the card has 2gb vram. Launch spec is 1gb vram so the benchmarks could well be faked.
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We know there's going to be 1.5GB 7950's, but it launched at 3GB.
Could have different variants.
Given the touted shaders at 640 at 1GHZ, under performing a 960 shader part (With near enough the same performance per shader) at 775MHZ sounds right.
 
dave_beast said:
It amazes me how you know how much the 7770 will be at launch! It could be £100 for all you know!
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Even if it launches at 100 quid, that's still lack of progression for price/performance.
From everywhere its been looking like the 7770 will be around 130 quid, we'll know on the 15th anyway, until then, I'll stay away from replying to you, too Pro-AMD for me.
 
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Martini1991 said:
Even if it launches at 100 quid, that's still lack of progression for price/performance.
From everywhere its been looking like the 7770 will be around 130 quid, we'll know on the 15th anyway, until then, I'll stay away from replying to you, too Pro-AMD for me.
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It's a new product. New technology. It has DX11.1 (wow I know right) and PCIE3, 28nm ETC.

You are always going to pay the premium for new crap, even if it is literally crap (like PCIE3 and DX11.1).
 
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