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7770

This card is nothing but a pure failure. Oh, and before people start slinging the 'ZOMG AMD hater' at me, my GPU history:

Geforce 3, 9800 pro, Geforce 6800 sli, X1900 XTX, 3850 xfire, 4850 xfire, 4870 xfire, 5770 xfire, gtx 460 and 560 ti SLI.

I wouldn't touch these 7770s with a bargepole.
 
This card should have had the same shader count as the 5770/6770 cards. The 128bit memory bus can be forgiven (although 192bit would have been nice), but those measily 640 shaders are what make the card a flop. An 800 shader part (like the 6770) would have added 25% more performance and made the card equal to or sliughtly better than the 6850's.

AMD want their cake and eat it, supplying smaller and cheaper dies, yet charging higher prices for slower cards. They can stick their overpriced and underperforming 7x00 cards up their little red rectums.
 
7970 with 2048 SP's and 384bit mem bus vs 5870/6970 with 1600/1536 SP's and 256bit mem bus
7970 has 33% more SP's / 50% wider mem bus

7770 with 640 SP's and 128bit mem bus replaces 5770/6770 with 800 SP's and 128bit mem bus.
7770 has 20% less SP's and same mem bus

Ignoring pricing, the 7970 delevers reasonable gains for a next gen replacement. The 7770 on the other hand is extrememly disappointing, relying almost totally on clockspeeds to just about beat the cards it replaces. The 77xx should really be classed and priced as the 56xx series replacements. It should have been called a 7670 and priced at ~£70.

New technology is supposed to provide better performance for the same or cheaper prices, not the other way around. In this regard the 7970 fails on price, but the 7770 fails on both performance and price. It is a stinker.

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Two years ago the 5770 was a decent card for £120. It offered exactly 50% of AMD's top card 5870 performance and specification for just over a third of the price. The 7770 on the other hand is much much weaker than the 7970, offering less than one-third of the shader and memory counts. There are plenty of cheaper and better cards available, so who is going to buy it?
 
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easyrider said:
11 over a weekend from release day from overclock is hardly flying off the shelves.:p

The lack of heat in hardware forums.

Only a few people have bought them
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The only time I've seen Gibbo mention 11 sales was here:

Gibbo said:
We've sold 11 in last 24hrs, not amazing, but steady sales. AMD have been informed of desired price points which need hitting. Whether they will do anything remains unseen.
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That was posted on 2nd Feb 2012 at 11:51.

Not amazing numbers but it wasn't 11 sales over a weekend.
 
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