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7970 After one day

wodgah said:
Woah , wasnt expecting this amount of replies and im not trolling or picking sides.

The simple truth of it is i didnt pay 560 or anything close for it and im going to be getting the same money from selling the 570s as i paid for the 7970.

The heaven benches were just to show the difference is all, my card is clocked and runs fine in both bf3 swtor and also skyrim. With everything on max.
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Good on you, I would rather have one card that pulls the same power as two and more if overclocked.

It's also great as a General compute GPU. Better than the GTX580 on most. According to several benching sites.
 
Surveyor said:
Thanks for not taking sides yet accussing me of not understanding or trolling.

DM said in the earlier post I quoted that he expected the HD 7970 to be released with clock speeds of 950MHz to 1GHz, the 70-80% increase would come mainly from the architectural improvements and that clock speed is the LEAST important difference in terms of the specs in a new gen card.

He was forecasting that a 950MHz to 1GHz HD 7970 would perform 70-80% better than a HD 6970.

That turns out not to be the case and a large part of the performace increase does come from increased clock speed.

A HD 7970 at around 1.2-1.3GHz performs something like 70-80% better than a HD 6970.

All I've pointed out is that DM was pretty much right just for the wrong reasons.
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On a sidenote, a 6970 on 28nm process should also overclock massively. It goes to show that for gaming graphics, clock for clock, the 7970 is not much more powerful than a 6970. It just happens to be on a better process which invariably allows higher clocks albeit at higher power draw. If AMD release a 6970 28nm and decide not to cripple it in any way it will be probably be fairly competitive against the 7970 for overclockers only interested in gaming.
 
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xsistor said:
On a sidenote, a 6970 on 28nm process should also overclock massively. It goes to show that for gaming graphics, clock for clock, the 7970 is not much more powerful than a 6970. It just happens to be on a better process which invariably allows higher clocks albeit at higher power draw. If AMD release a 6970 28nm and decide not to cripple it in any way it will be probably be fairly competitive against the 7970 for overclockers only interested in gaming.
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I dont think it would as the amd 5/6 series never really showed great gains from overclocking compared to the nvidia cards. The 7970 shows great gains from overclocking. There were some cards like the 5850 that showed nice gains but this was probably down to it being clocked pretty low.
 
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LeJosh said:
He moved from 2 cards to 1 card that is better than those two combined (give or take), problem?
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Its a good move in pretty much every way. Even sli/cf users will agree that a single card of the same speed is the best option. He even says he never lost any money moving to the 7970. I cant understand the negative comments either. He now has the option to crossfire for an even bigger gain and is happy with the way his machine looks. It seems to be a win all round for him.
 
i have a 7970 and game at 1680 by 1050. And in BF3 i can tell the difference between stock and overclocked with v-sync on (everything ultra) sure it does well at high res, but that's not the only reason to get one
 
My preference will always be to have one current generation top-end card over two last generation cards. It makes perfect sense, and is probably a wise decision considering what GTX570's will be worth once Kepler arrives.
 
Well seeing as this seems to have a lot of people reading and its about my card i can ask, i see overclockers are going to stock the waterblocks for the 7970 id like to go with a black theme inside my case for the fittings and blocks is there a reason not to do this anymore ?
 
KNiVES said:
The sun rises, people are taxed, and DM & Surveyor are arguing over video cards. Again.
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DM is arguing with himself as I'm only quoting what he said ;)

FYI you'll find a lot more people who've had a lot more "discussion" with DM about graphics cards.

I've rarely crossed swords with him.
 
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I am still sceptical.

If you consider the Heaven Benchmark thread, the 7970 simply do not deliver the level of performance in single card delivery that could ever match nor better 570 SLI.

The only bonuses are:
- Less Heat
- Less Power
- Less PCI-E/Motherboard useage
- More case space
- New shiny kit
 
f00f1ght0r said:
I am still sceptical.

If you consider the Heaven Benchmark thread, the 7970 simply do not deliver the level of performance in single card delivery that could ever match nor better 570 SLI.
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heaven is a syntetic benchmark.
not useful to view sli vs single core card performance.
I prefer anyday a single hot dandy 7970 before crossfire/sli solutions.
 
drunkenmaster said:
For the record, I said 70-80% faster over the 6970, not 50% faster than the 580gtx.
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Does the defendant wish to clarify that last statement? ;)
 
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