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PowerColor 6970 pictured and benched

Lol, I echo rroffs perspective, there's no reason to leak a slow card, makes you look uncompetative, although everybody knows they wouldn't release a card larger with so many improvements that was slower than a 5870. I call BS :) from all angles the card looks to be a very good perfomer. My 470 thrashes that 3dmark11 score with a phenom tri core ffs :D
 
Hrm...babelfish tells me some people were wondering this on the german forum- that card may be labelled, and look like a 6970, might even be able to act like one, but that switch makes me wonder if this might be a review sample. This is hypothetical and all results may just be bs.

Why send a reviewer 2 cards, when all that is needed to review both a 6970 and a 6950 is a single switch, that would lower clocks, adjust volts and turn off some shaders?

Wouldn't be hard to do, just have it access a different bios, and bobs your uncle you are only sending review sites one card- photos wouldnt be hard to sort.

Those results seem a lot more in keeping with what the 6950 might be like. And if you add 320 shaders and a jump in clock speeds, along with actual released drivers- would that not seem reasonable for a 6970- putting it on a par or just edging a 480?

Either way still makes me love my 5850.
 
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el Kuarlos said:
Hrm...babelfish tells me some people were wondering this on the german forum- that card may be labelled, and look like a 6970, might even be able to act like one, but that switch makes me wonder if this might be a review sample. This is hypothetical and all results may just be bs.

Why send a reviewer 2 cards, when all that is needed to review both a 6970 and a 6950 is a single switch, that would lower clocks, adjust volts and turn off some shaders?

Wouldn't be hard to do, just have it access a different bios, and bobs your uncle you are only sending review sites one card- photos wouldnt be hard to sort.

Those results seem a lot more in keeping with what the 6950 might be like. And if you add 320 shaders and a jump in clock speeds, along with actual released drivers- would that not seem reasonable for a 6970- putting it on a par or just edging a 480?

Either way still makes me love my 5850.
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If your right, taking a few things into account, that would kinda hint at the 6950 being a 1280 shader card which kinda seems a little low to me (tho about right for the performance shown).
 
Not really, what I mean is that the card other than the sticker is internally set to act like a 6950- hence gpuz reading the correct shaders for a 6950...and the benchies playing it out.

What would happen if you flicked the switch or changed the bios would be you get 1920 shaders, higher clocks and a massive breech of your nda <as then you would actually be leaking genuine info>- it is interesting- have they actually benched the switch card set to 6950 and just said it is 6970 to get round the nda perhaps- there is no realy way for ati to call em out on it then, and we all know that the exact same was possible with the 5000 series by flashing bios.

I m in no way saying i am correct just seems to fit with what we are getting.
 
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This kinda reminds me of the 58xx's leaked benchmarks being all over the place and look how much performance was gained in drivers over time, i would kind of expect the same thing a little gimped performance until a solid 69xx driver comes out for download.

i'm taking everthing in this thread with a pinch of salt.
 
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4662012&postcount=2592

i guess these are 10.12 beta, i've installed them, it as the new CCC

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I know it appears genuine but i can't see it being true or at least i hope not because i was relying on them kicking ass to drop the price of the 570/580 eventually :(
 
The "Slow board" could be a 1600sp ev/es sample ? If the sale version is a 1920sp card, then the performance numbers above make sense.
 
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