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AMD "Never Settle" 12.11 Driver - benchmarks

flopper said:
bought 7970 in June, been happy ever since.
the new drivers are just cake on top of the cream.
its just so good this card its amazing.
Harry potter give it the wizard of honor.
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Similar thoughts from me tbh.

Yes it has been 8 months since getting my card but it has never been obviously under performing.
Always been happy with my 7950 (discounting a failed card of course) so the latest driver performance increase is just a bonus as it seems.

As for being too late..............................................well not for me and most other AMD users but perhaps it might have made things more comfortable for AMD card sales when the Nvidia 6 series surfaced.
 
Boomstick777 said:
I think it's more like it's just boring..

Point is AMD have awesome drivers, who cares about 10 months ago? Enjoy the performance until the next lot of cards..

'Idle clock fix would be nice though lol'

Peace.
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10 months since release, 2 weeks since AMD took the lead...
How can you be so blinkered? Or are these 12.11 drivers so good they've impaired your memory and the last 10 months of minor/zero gains are lost...?
 
Tonester0011 said:
10 months since release, 2 weeks since AMD took the lead...
How can you be so blinkered? Or are these 12.11 drivers so good they've impaired your memory and the last 10 months of minor/zero gains are lost...?
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I think what he is saying there is; those who bought AMD GPU's were perfectly happy with the performance before these Drivers.

The performance increase we are getting from them is like a very nice and unexpected birthday present.
 
Tonester0011 said:
10 months since release, 2 weeks since AMD took the lead...
How can you be so blinkered? Or are these 12.11 drivers so good they've impaired your memory and the last 10 months of minor/zero gains are lost...?
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Why knock something that has evolved?
Better than remaining stagnant don't you think?
It is not effecting anyone detrimentally is it?

I don't see it as gaining one upmanship over Nvidia moreso just increasing the performance of the games that I play.
 
Menty said:
Why knock something that has evolved?
Better than remaining stagnant don't you think?
It is not effecting anyone detrimentally is it?

I don't see it as gaining one upmanship over Nvidia moreso just increasing the performance of the games that I play.
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Works both ways...
Why celebrate something that took so long to "evolve"

humbug said:
I think what he is saying there is; those who bought AMD GPU's were perfectly happy with the performance before these Drivers.

The performance increase we are getting from them is like a very nice and unexpected birthday present.
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I bought AMD because they were first to bring out the new tech, i get the itch as soon as the new "best thing" comes a calling. I've also had less problems with AMD drivers, that could be i've only had mid ranged Nvidia though :o

I was happy with the performance when i bought the card, i was also content in being even with the 670 (kinda like 6970 and 570) however i dont get why we cant criticise a company that took nearly a year to match on paper performance with in game performance.

My two pence anyway.
 
The only people who take offence at pointing out 10 months of lacklustre performance is unacceptable are people who .... insert remark here.

Then again, if I had a nVidia card in my signature I'd be a fanboy right? To say that the last 10 months don't matter anymore is borderline thick at worse and at best short sighted.

If it was me, knowing AMD has such large gains up their sleeve I'd be annoyed they weren't available from the off. But that's just me thinking as a logical consumer as opposed to the equivalent of a love struck teenager or whatever is going on here :D.
 
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Because it took so long and some people have owned their cards since release?? Nobody is saying it's a bad thing that performance is bumped - you surely don't think anyone is saying that right? - the issue is more to do with how long it took. Why accept what was poor performance as normal? All signs point to massive improvements in their driver teams now and moving forward but that's not a reason to forget so quickly...
 
Yeah i agree with you Tonster, a company should be criticized for not getting it right.

And AMD have had a lot of criticism, a lot of it well founded.
But AMD did right here, no one was expecting this level of performance boost, before these drivers AMD were close enough to Nvidia.
it came as a huge surprise to us all to see it suddenly overtaking them.
I happen to think its a nice reward to us from them, they answered that well deserved criticism with a bang. and we benefit from it.
So for me its time to put those criticisms behind us. AMD paid for there issues, they have now put it right in spectacular fashion.

(not aiming the following text at anyone)

I hate brand rivalry amongst enthusiasts, there is far to much of it throughout the Internet, inevitably some people go on and on when there brand is on top for reason unknown to me, but then may find themselves with egg on face some time after, often this makes them very angry and they start becoming completely ridicules by clutching at straws to save face, this is already starting with the replacement GPU's in sight; predicting this and that... hanging on to every word anyone says that reinforces there argument, the irony is its just another recipe for another round of egg on face.

We should all just be happy for each other with what we have chosen for our indervidual reasons.
 
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Menty said:
Works both ways....................explain please?


I don't understand how you can be unhappy with a free boost that's all?
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Rusty0611 said:
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Because it took so long and some people have owned their cards since release?? Nobody is saying it's a bad thing that performance is bumped - you surely don't think anyone is saying that right? - the issue is more to do with how long it took. Why accept what was poor performance as normal? All signs point to massive improvements in their driver teams now and moving forward but that's not a reason to forget so quickly...
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The only thing i would say to Rusty is; i did not think the performance was poor, i was happy with the performance as it was, i think the same goes for most AMD GPU owners.

The gain we have with 12.11 is a surprise, it was not asked for, it wa not a complaint, it certainly was not expected.
Its a bonus.
 
I just finished a gaming session 10 minutes ago(not 10 months ago) and came on here to read the latest nonsense.

It's the same old same old. :(

We all get it, we have all read it, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again...

AMD get slaughtered for their drivers, they change their tactics and get performance, they are then slaughtered for not having the performance at launch even though they have brought massive gains to their gpu.

10 months don't matter any more since I didn't buy it ten months ago, and, if anything, I'm delighted as I wouldn't have paid the price for the pleasure of having the fastest gpu in town.

You can bet your bottom dollar, it wouldn't have been anywhere near £300 if it had the performance crown from the start.

Whoever bought 10 months ago, will be delighted that they picked the right gpu, weren't swayed by the dodgy reviews and now have the fastest gpu sitting in their rig.

It's that bad having a 79 series gpu right now that more people are selling up their 6 series to move over to the 79 series than the other way around.

Puts me off the forum big time when something most of us agree on gets repeated constantly in every other thread even though it's generally the same folks reading and taking part in said threads.:(
 
tommybhoy said:
I just finished a gaming session 10 minutes ago(not 10 months ago) and came on here to read the latest nonsense.

It's the same old same old. :(

We all get it, we have all read it, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again...

AMD get slaughtered for their drivers, they change their tactics and get performance, they are then slaughtered for not having the performance at launch even though they have brought massive gains to their gpu.

10 months don't matter any more since I didn't buy it ten months ago, and, if anything, I'm delighted as I wouldn't have paid the price for the pleasure of having the fastest gpu in town.

You can bet your bottom dollar, it wouldn't have been anywhere near £300 if it had the performance crown from the start.

Whoever bought 10 months ago, will be delighted that they picked the right gpu, weren't swayed by the dodgy reviews and now have the fastest gpu sitting in their rig.

It's that bad having a 79 series gpu right now that more people are selling up their 6 series to move over to the 79 series than the other way around.

Puts me off the forum big time when something most of us agree on gets repeated constantly in every other thread even though it's generally the same folks reading and taking part in said threads.:(
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tommybhoy said:
I just finished a gaming session 10 minutes ago(not 10 months ago) and came on here to read the latest nonsense.

It's the same old same old. :(

We all get it, we have all read it, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again...

AMD get slaughtered for their drivers, they change their tactics and get performance, they are then slaughtered for not having the performance at launch even though they have brought massive gains to their gpu.

10 months don't matter any more since I didn't buy it ten months ago, and, if anything, I'm delighted as I wouldn't have paid the price for the pleasure of having the fastest gpu in town.

You can bet your bottom dollar, it wouldn't have been anywhere near £300 if it had the performance crown from the start.

Whoever bought 10 months ago, will be delighted that they picked the right gpu, weren't swayed by the dodgy reviews and now have the fastest gpu sitting in their rig.

It's that bad having a 79 series gpu right now that more people are selling up their 6 series to move over to the 79 series than the other way around.

Puts me off the forum big time when something most of us agree on gets repeated constantly in every other thread even though it's generally the same folks reading and taking part in said threads.:(
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Well said tommy.

Always the same names, spouting the same insults and little digs.

Yawn.
 
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I can't understand it either. I will be absolutely delighted even if my cards still have another 50% left in the tank that will be released in future drivers too :)

Picture it this way, if your car dealer came and fitted a super chip for free which gave you +30 BHP and no worse fuel economy, would you be over the moon or would you moan that it wasn't done earlier and that your engine wasn't running at 99% efficiency from the off?
 
I haven't owned an AMD/ATi card for years, been nVidia for a while. I have just bought a 7970 and the only regret i have (other than GPU Tweak) is not buying one sooner..
 
Why is the guy moaning about the drivers taking 10 months to unlock the performance someone who has an nvidia 680 in his sig ?
It's not like hes been waiting for anything... no one has and without these drivers everyone would have just assumed the drivers were getting all of the performance available.

I guess he would moan if nvidia found a magical 10% to right ? or would they be hailed as the gods that keep on giving ?

troll ? fanboy ? butthurt ? or just GREEN with envy ?
 
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