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7950 3DM11 scores?

Yeah that's what I was thinking man. Mind you, it's only clocked to 800mhz (the 7950) apparently so may have loads left in the tank?

Either way yeah, not too exciting really is it?
 
hmm I remember seeing some other site where it shows 7950 scores goign up to 65xx figures in 3Dmark11.Let me see if I can find the article

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Found it here
 
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It could well be down to the processor used as those results were using amd. In the article they give out some xtreme scores with a huge gap between intel and amd processors.

"In the 3D Mark 11 Extreme mode, the best two results are X3135 and X3129, done with AMD’s upcoming GPU and the Intel Core i7-990X processor. There are also two results for the Radeon HD 7950 / AMD Phenom II X6 1090T combination – X2484 and X2219."

I am not sure how good those extreme scores are but as with the 7970 until we see a 7950 overclocked we wont know how good it actually is. If it overclocks as good as the 7970, say to around 1200-1300 on the core then it may see around 40-50% extra performance.

Amd really should have clocked these cards higher, as its making the cards look pedestrian to what they are actually capable of.
 
Well according to the link Avathar posted the 7950 was clocked to 1030mhz and scored 6518. Which basically makes it about identical to a 580.

With the above taken into consideration they're going to need to price it at under £400.

A 3GB 580 costs the same as a 7970 (£430 or so) so this could well seriously bring down the prices of the 580.
 
ALXAndy said:
Well according to the link Avathar posted the 7950 was clocked to 1030mhz and scored 6518. Which basically makes it about identical to a 580.

With the above taken into consideration they're going to need to price it at under £400.

A 3GB 580 costs the same as a 7970 (£430 or so) so this could well seriously bring down the prices of the 580.
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In the link Avathar posted the 7950 run was done at stock speed. The 1030 core is whats needed to equal a 7970. Thats what i took from this line anyway.

"HD7950 @1030/5600MHz: 7970"
 
according to second translated link

7950 Stock : P6139
7970 Stock : P7228
6970 Stock : P5471
GTX570 OC : P5450 (750/975)
7950 OC : P7056 (1030/5600)
 
Ooo so that one includes a score for the overclock.

None too shabby man ! that's only 800 points less than my 7970 @ 1000mhz.

Yeah, definitely seems that you are going to need to overclock it to get the money out of it.
 
heh i got my nice 6950 just month ago and im thinking about 7950 :P Depends on few factors but...... Price mostly
 
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You bought a 7970 Andy? didn't you just buy the 6970?
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I did mate but it died :(

Had a fair chunk of money come up so I decided to safeguard my PC for a bit and just get a 7970.

The 6970 wasn't enough to play Fallout 3 the way I have it set up.

I've RMAd it via MSI themselves in Holland as the faults were random and intermittent and I didn't want to get burnt like I did with an.other website last year. I ended up £27 down in "testing fees" with a motherboard that didn't work properly, total lost £86.

Once it comes back it'll make a nice spare.
 
ALXAndy said:
I did mate but it died :(

Had a fair chunk of money come up so I decided to safeguard my PC for a bit and just get a 7970.

The 6970 wasn't enough to play Fallout 3 the way I have it set up.

I've RMAd it via MSI themselves in Holland as the faults were random and intermittent and I didn't want to get burnt like I did with an.other website last year. I ended up £27 down in "testing fees" with a motherboard that didn't work properly, total lost £86.

Once it comes back it'll make a nice spare.
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Do you play at 1080p? It's quite a jump price-wise to the 7970 - are you happy with it? Think it's worth it at 1080p (if you are playing at 1080p ofc)?

I've read quite a few of the R6970s had issues, glad I didn't get one for xfire now. I hate returning etc for reasons you set out.
 
Yeah man. If you send it back you agree to their terms and waive your rights. The only option you have is to force them to take it back unconditionally :(

As I mentioned I play a heavily modded Fallout 3. Like, 6gb of textures sounds and all of that. Fallout 3 wasn't designed to look like that and you will notice it immediately. Firstly I have around 3gb of textures loaded into it that will try and load all at once when you are outside. This is bad enough, but add in dynamic weather than comes with dynamic clouds, rain, thunder, lightning, snow and heavy snow.. Even the 7970 stutters when the lightning comes.

I hadn't really gotten a chance to really test the 6970 as Mum was taken ill just as I bought the card and I had to look after her for three weeks over Christmas (cancer scare :( ) Thankfully it turned out to be a really horrible virus but yeah, she wasn't a well woman :(

When I did finally get around to sitting down for some "me" time and play the games I play I began to notice issues. This is an example of the issues I would have, one hour into a Fallout 3 session.


And the obligatory "Driver has crashed and then recovered"


Which was hard to replicate, but happened all the time. This is why I was so scared of sending it back to OCUK, because they would have plugged it in, tested it for a couple of minutes and sent it back.

MSI have been really cool about it and it was sent off yesterday. Oddly, about twenty minutes before the 7970 arrived by courier I tried to change the driver (I was still messing with it, you know how it goes....) and this happened.

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And that was that. After that happened I couldn't load into Windows at all unless I was in safe mode with no driver loaded.

I suspect it was bad vram tbh and it just took a while to die. Before that it was just stuff like this.

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That happened periodically..

I do play at 1080p yes, but as I said my case is very very unique. The Fallout 3 install I have weighs in at over 20gb and looks every bit as good as Crysis 2 with all of the DX11 porn enabled.

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And completely redesigned models with veins, sweat and so on.

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Thanks mate.

I'm trying to avoid an itch although this itch isnt as bad as previous itches.

I think I'll wait until I upgrade monitor or go eyefinity or something before getting a card like that.

Although 120+Fps in BF3 would be nice...argh
 
It was a moment of madness I confess. I had the second Alienware that cost me little, but a power cut/surge saw the end of the media PC and monitor it was plugged into. Alienwares were fine thankfully, but I got a 32" LCD TV and that meant surround had to go. Four days later I can see a film of dust settling on top of the spare Alienware and sold it.

Did really really well out of it (over £400 profit on what it stood me in) and had a million ideas as to what to spend the money on but as usual when I really thought about it anything else just sits and rots. Anything I buy that isn't directly attatched to or involved with my PC just doesn't get used.

Totally irresponsible mind, but I've put in over 700 hours into Fallout 3 alone (without including New Vegas and DLC) and so when I thought about it it seemed like a good idea.
 
Yeah from the sound of it the 7950 is going to be an absolute cracker.

Not out of the box, mind, but get it revved up and it'll be a wolf in sheep's clothing :)
 
Reading your posts andy reminds me of me, i have a heavily modded Fallout 3 and i'm currently running a 6970, but i have someone who wants to purcahse it off me for 200£ to go towards my 7970 (My 6970 isnt really that old so it wont have any problems, runs fine for me as is) and plan to get a 7970 once the 7950 comes out and Hopefully knocks down its price just a bit.
 
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