Sapphire 7970 Toxic 6GB

[Nightglow]

Found this about the Sapphire HD 7970 Toxic with 6gb of memory.

http://www.maxishine.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=26501

 

[rubin1961]

It wont be cheep and all that ram is not needed,waste

 

[Marine-RX179]

It's all about profit. DIMM thesedays are dirt cheap...manufacturers just smack more memory onto the cards, and then charge something like £50+ extra despite the extra memory most likely don't even cost more than £10 to them.

 

[andybird123]

It wont be cheep and all that ram is not needed,waste

what about large monitor eyefinity setups?

 

[Gregster]

Mind you it seems with VRAM being the ruling factor recently, it will last 10+ years as regardless of the power of the card, guys think that VRAM is what matters.

6GB does seem a fair chunk of overkill. Mind you, it can't be a bad thing.

 

[mjones1]

I'm just waiting for this whole thread to be about vram.

 

[FrenchTart]

How do I set up a ramdisk on my graphics card ram?

 

[Gregster]

How do I set up a ramdisk on my graphics card ram?

lmao

 

[lay-z-boy]

Waiting for the raft of users to tell others in great detail how to spend someone else's money.

6gb should cover 27/30" surround + aa + ultra high res textures and mods nicely. Trusting you have enough gpu grunt, of course.

 

[Nightglow]

This card will eventually have higher clocks than mentioned, & with a Eyefinity 6 setup it will be impressive.

 

[555BUK]

7970's need to be cheaper right now, not more expensive. Nice card, but why would anyone ever need more that 3GB on a graphics card.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Waiting for the raft of users to tell others in great detail how to spend someone else's money.

6gb should cover 27/30" surround + aa + ultra high res textures and mods nicely. Trusting you have enough gpu grunt, of course.

And next year, they will be telling people how 6GB of VRAM isn't enough for that and get 9GB version of the card, ignoring that single GPU won't have nearly enough grunt for pushing those settings

 

[~REALiTY]

People have less RAM installed on there motherboard than this thing!

I might buy one just to run on one monitor at 800x600 you know push the card to its limits an all!

 

[straxusii]

This thread got me all nostalgic about my first GPU and its 4MB of ram

 

[straxusii]

I might buy one just to run on one monitor at 800x600 you know push the card to its limits an all!

Ooh be careful mate, 6GB won't be enough for 800x600 in a few years time you know

 

[Marine-RX179]

Yea...listen to people's advise...VRAM is all it is to it, so in two years' time you should get yourself a HD9450 18GB , cause GPU don't matter and the 18GB vram alone will run all games to highest settings...

 

[tommybhoy]

7970's need to be cheaper right now, not more expensive.

Why if it performs basically the same as a 680 but generally cheaper in the UK?

Both of them should be cheaper, but they aren't.

As long as people are willing to pay these sort of prices, they will sell, if the 7970 wasn't selling it would be cheaper, yes the 680 is hard to get but stocks have and will be low for a few months yet.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Why if it performs basically the same as a 680 but generally cheaper in the UK?

Both of them should be cheaper, but they aren't.

As long as people are willing to pay these sort of prices, they will sell, if the 7970 wasn't selling it would be cheaper, yes the 680 is hard to get but stocks have and will be low for a few months yet.

Except that the 7970 is not same performance as GTX680. Even if both cards were same performance clock for clock as people claimed, as the end of the day the GTX680 has higher core clock, and even if ignoring the the auto-overclock feature, it is still faster out of the box. 7970 that are 1000MHz+ out of the box are all more expensive than the standard GTX680. I somewhat agree with the statement above that AMD cards should drop their price, with the 1000MHz version cards to GTX680 price level, and the standard 925MHz cards to may be £20 lower than GTX680.

But yes I do also agree both AMD and Nvidia should be good deal cheaper...both should really be at under £350, not £400+.

 

[tommybhoy]

I would normally agree, but we all know that any 7970 will hit 1GHz by simply pushing a slider, I don't see anyone that buys any card@~£400 not being able to set a small overclock.

I also don't see the point at all on spending extra on something you can do yourself:

Msi has 2 7970's, £30 extra gets you 1Ghz, and a redesigned cooler cover, imho , rip-off!

Evga has slightly higher clocked 680's, 58MHz extra sets you back £38, even bigger rip-off!

Nothing the stock cards can't achieve!

'NVIDIA have enjoyed at least a couple of years of victory after victory, for the most part outpacing their AMD/ATI counterparts. While we have shown today's sample to be much the same, the performance gap is much smaller than it once had been. Were it not for a nagging thought in my sub conscious I would have absolutely no hesitation in proclaiming the GTX680 to be without a shadow of a doubt the single best graphics card on the planet. That nagging thought has plagued me throughout this review - the GTX680 could have been so much more.'

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/zotac_gtx680_2gb_gddr5_review,20.html

 

[Besty]

It wont be cheep and all that ram is not needed,waste

It is likely that this card is being prepared to play the numbers game against the EVGA 680 4GB Classified.

6GB no needed by users but this is needed as a halo card.