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AMD working with a major developer to create a never-before-seen DirectX® 11 technology.

humbug said:
AMD simply do things diffrently, they work with developers just as much as Nvidia, the difference is when they do it for the benefit of everyone.
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Poppycock. So their launch prices were for the benefit of who? :D

Martini. I recall being very annoyed at Nvidia. I still am - I didn't post here to raise my complaints I simply posted to explain to some one comparing prices of a 7950 to a 680 and saying something along the lines of "It better perform £140 or something".

AMD tend to offload work onto others and because of that it shows. If they concentrated on 3D in the drivers like Nvidia does then no doubt it would be much better. They don't though.

Humbug. Go and do some reading about Havok. AMD were just as keen to have a monopoly as Nvidia.
 
When you originally bought it, after your previous issues about the pricing, you said it was well worth the price because it was just brilliant.
I pity those with bad memory.
 
I paid £350 for my card on Release day. I not one bit bothered about the pricing right now, Just look how long it tuck them to come down I would off been waiting on Building this system for ages.
 
@ALXAndy, Havok are an open source Physx developer, its based again on OpenCL, depending again on how well you support OpenCL accounts to how well it works.
 
LtMatt said:
Wow this thread got lively. I'm only halfway through reading but had to stop to say i was wondering when a 7970 would go for less than £300. Mind you, its a dirty voltage locked 7970. Blargh! :p
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Throw the GHZ edition BIOS on it from Gigabyte, ups the voltage.
It's *meant* to put it to 1256mv, which should allow a fairly respectable clock, however mine only went upto 1222mv, regardless it's stable at 1100MHZ/1400MHZ and it's quiet and cool under load.

I'd say it's well worth it for the cooler, and at this clock the performance gain for clock percentage to real world performance starts to tail off.
 
Martini1991 said:
Throw the GHZ edition BIOS on it from Gigabyte, ups the voltage.
It's *meant* to put it to 1256mv, which should allow a fairly respectable clock, however mine only went upto 1222mv, regardless it's stable at 1100MHZ/1400MHZ and it's quiet and cool under load.

I'd say it's well worth it for the cooler, and at this clock the performance gain for clock percentage to real world performance starts to tail off.
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I stand corrected, id say its worth it then.
 
Doubt it's an answer to Nvidia PhysX as some of you have mentioned, as they're in partnership with Havok afaik.
 
LtMatt said:
I stand corrected, id say its worth it then.
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It's kinda frustrating, it really does feel like a quality card, and doesn't have the clocks locked.

MSI 7970 OC on the other hand, pretty much reference cooler, voltage unlocked, but clock locked, can't be fussed with breaking power play for unoffical overclocking (Although I'm not 100% sure if it still does? I haven't bothered maxing out clock sliders since the 5870 as the performance gain just isn't worth it after a certain point)
 
Martini1991 said:
MSI 7970 OC on the other hand, pretty much reference cooler, voltage unlocked, but clock locked, can't be fussed with breaking power play for unoffical overclocking (Although I'm not 100% sure if it still does? I haven't bothered maxing out clock sliders since the 5870 as the performance gain just isn't worth it after a certain point)
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It doesn't break powerplay if you do it this way. ;)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18431335
 
Why do we have to get announcements, when their is nothing to announce?

I'm currently working on technology which will allow you to do something beyond your wildest dreams, but I havent finished it yet, in fact I havent even started it, but I'm gonna announce it now, because, everyone knowing now, absolutely nothing about what I might be doing in the subsequent future benefits me greatly.
 
I know what you're referring to, it's a poorly optimised mess of tessellation implementation.
But it's not like that tessellation disappears if you're using an Nvidia card.
It's pretty much the same situation as the GTX680 in Showdown in the end result, one vendor can't perform as well as possible due to a limitation in the card.

You can turn off the tessellation/use a less intensive setting.

I think it's sloppy and backroom aside, the end result is the same as Showdown.
 
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