1536 for a 6950 and 1920 for a 6970.
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ATI cuts 6950 allocation
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1536 for a 6950 and 1920 for a 6970.
Arse, sounds like it is 1536
Who cares if it was 800 though, this new architecture is more efficient, so less does more basically.
In order to test as fair as possible I am setting up a rig with 5870 in and will run the last 3D Mark releases on it and then drop in a 6970 and do the same. So then we can get some numbers on how it compares to the card its replacing, the 5870.
That will hardly tell the true story though, infact you will probably cause more confusion.
You need to time demo games and give FPS results in a nice chart. Don't OcUK have official reviewers for this type of work ?
Who cares if it was 800 though, this new architecture is more efficient, so less does more basically.
This is such a fail, I'm spreading the news
Only OcUK has stock right now, others have not even had stock shipped to them yet, all I can say is OcUK will have more and our price will be very competitive, think back to how good the 58xx launch was and how surprisingly cheap they were at launch. The 69xx series shall repeat this, so do be warned after launch prices could creep up, thats just a heads up.
Those after a cheap 480, give me a few days and I might be able to offer a cheeky deal on MSI/Gigabyte cards.
That would be legendary Gibbo. The current prices make little sense when you can get a 570 for less but no where seems to be dropping them
Arse, sounds like it is 1536
It couldn't be, there are leaked slides stating the 6990 has 3840 shaders. So either the 6950 or 6970 has to have 1920 shaders for the 6990 to use 2x of the GPUs.
Also, to add to that, 1536 is a pitiful increase over 1120 and 960, AMD wouldn't want crossfired 6800s to smash a 6900 *that* badly when it comes to performance.
Plus 1536 shaders is a 20% crop from 1920 which sounds about right.
Keep looking, they be dropping.
Exactly, 1536 would give the 6950 a performance lead over the 6870 that fits in with the usual performance difference of cards from mid range and high end performance. For a 6970 to have only 1536 makes absolutely no sense, where would a 6950 then fit in? It'd be something stupid like 1344, and the performance gap would be tiny compared to the asking price.
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Yeah, I guess they will eventually just a case of when. Been following a few in MM recently and I know they have dropped in price considerably. Provided you can keep it cool and don't mind the power draw they could be a bargain if they drop enough
Who cares if it was 800 though, this new architecture is more efficient, so less does more basically.
Yeah sure but at 1536 (essentially 20% more than 5870) I dont think it's going to beat the 580
Yeah, I guess they will eventually just a case of when. Been following a few in MM recently and I know they have dropped in price considerably. Provided you can keep it cool and don't mind the power draw they could be a bargain if they drop enough
Stop assuming I am confirming anything as I am not, nor am I going too.
Just writing the true specs is always the best way to avoid confusion. Changing 1536 to "1920 virtual cores" or saying "20% greater performance than 6800" will confuse people.
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I agree, this is not a great move by AMD to have less shaders than the previous generation (even if they are more efficient) as it will look 'inferior' to the layman even though it isn't.
Looking like now the case is AMD might have dropped the shaders to increase yields. The best thing we can hope for is that the 6950 contains same amount of said shaders (or a few disabled) and downclocked
This won't be a big 'lunch' boys
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AMD official slide said, that GTX 580 faster than 6970. LOL.
FAIL. FAIL.
And the 6970 will retail for less as a result, nobody at amd ever claimed the 6970 would be the fastest single GPU card. The only fail here is your ignorance. Now go and stand in the cornor and think about what you have just said.