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7970 vs 680 thread.

sand_dune said:
That is an average of following games at 2560x1440 resolution and 7970 is a winner:

They are not old games that are so liked by many English spoken websites. You wont find here stuff like cod2 or BF2.

Data from Overclockers.ru website (it doesn't sell anything) and is correct.

3DMark 2011
Unigine Heaven
Metro 2033
Aliens vs Predator 3
Star Craft II
Battlefield III
Total War Shogun II
Colin McRae Dirt III
Batman: Arkham City
Crysis 2
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
F1 2011
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Hard Reset
Deus Ex - Human Revolution

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Aceepted (now that the source is known, but I don't read too many Russian sites). All this proves is only what we knew beforehand. Both cards are pretty much the same at stock and when overclocked. Some sites show overclocked 680's as slightly faster and some show 7970 slightly faster, but overall they are much of a muchness.

Don't see how one review "proves" the 7970 is faster when overclocked, when all other reviews a split so evenly between both.
 
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You're still hotlinking to images.

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ALXAndy said:
According to you since the GTX 680 was launched overclocking is no longer important. Because, what you believe in goes.

So that means that all reviews of the 680 should be against a 7970 that isn't overclocked because that doesn't matter to you any more because you have become a hypocrite overnight.

You see, there are reviews out there that have compared the cards equally and fairly.

Yet, you just don't want to hear it. You accuse me of not reading the reviews when actually, mate, I have read all of them.

Even the completely fair and unbiased ones where they declare neither card a clear winner, as they are both equal at equal clocks.

And unlike you I won't allow myself to become a hypocrite and rant and rave about how unfair reviews are wonderful.

If any one is trying to justify their purchases around here it's the people who went out and bought the 680.

They want to sit in a corner and beam with pride and come on the forum bragging about how amazing and wonderful their cards are, re-reading over the reviews of them.

So I'm sorry that you don't like this thread. And I'm sorry that you seem incapable of reading a review that puts the cards up to each other fairly, but there's not a lot I can do about it.

Now do us all a favour and grow up. If you don't like this thread and the opinions and reviews posted in it, don't read it. I haven't gone around trolling the 680 line up threads have I?

No. At least I remain you know? not a hypocrite.




Where is the fun in that? they want to come on here and gleefully boast and brag about how wonderful their cards are and how much better they are than other people's.

And they just don't want to hear, nor care about what others have to say, because they all want to gather in a circle and group hug !
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bitter much? most if not all the sites I have seen have shown the 680 to be the faster card by a decent margin, tho I'm not sure why you bothered if you happy with your card, but I guess you not.
 
TAC4U said:
I have no idea what constitutes good results but on my first run this is my result - 77.095fps @ 1080p. As I said, I'm still playing around with my overclock a lot but this was stable and the fan noise was perfectly acceptable. Could someone please tell me whether my score is in the right area or whether I have issues with my config?
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Looks great, any chance you could run the other timed demo as it's more representative of actual gameplay, cheers


gregster said:
Very nice scores bud. They have done well with the new drivers.

Ohhhhh and very nice bum also :D
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Not his scores afaik, hes just linked to another site.
 
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wab said:
bitter much? most if not all the sites I have seen have shown the 680 to be the faster card by a decent margin, tho I'm not sure why you bothered if you happy with your card, but I guess you not.
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I think he's quite happy with his card.

If you read the whole thread there's a lot of discussion about how the cards compare when overclocked.
 
gregster said:
Very nice scores bud. They have done well with the new drivers.
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It's got nothing to do with the drivers it's a suicide run with both CPU/GPU overclocked to ridiculously unstable levels, it's not really reflective of normal 24/7 performance.
 
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mmj_uk said:
It's got nothing to do with the drivers it's a suicide run with both CPU/GPU overclocked to ridiculously unstable levels, it's not really reflective of normal 24/7 performance.
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While the CPU stability is questionable there is nothing in that thread to say that the GPUs aren't and its the GPU score that counts and if it was all ridiculously unstable then it would not make it through the bench.

MetalRacer said:
The latest beta drivers are looking good for benches.

Asus reference card on air.
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I gained 78 points with the 12.4 Betas.
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Out the box a stock GTX680 gets pretty much identical scores in most cases to my GTX470 SLI setup when its overclocked to stock GTX480 SLI performance.

EDIT: I may be a little bit CPU bound from seeing the very top performance from either setup tho.
 
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Any ideas why the 256bit memory bus is not holding the 680 back? AMD must have gone to 384bit for some reason (as did NV with the 580), but how comes the 128bit "downgrade" seems not to affect performance at all?
 
555BUK said:
Any ideas why the 256bit memory bus is not holding the 680 back? AMD must have gone to 384bit for some reason (as did NV with the 580), but how comes the 128bit "downgrade" seems not to affect performance at all?
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It does as at high resolution the 7970 claws back most of the lead the gtx680 has at 1080p. It does not cripple it but i do believe it holds it back slightly.
 
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