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Maybe the Catalyst 10.12 drivers include a BIOS update for the cards to unlock the extra stream processors! 
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ATI cuts 6950 allocation
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and why will company will make such a product???? i believe that swith may have dual bios for reseting ur gpu bios or overclock it a little
Thanks for the info...
But the fact still remains, amd switched from making massive gpu's quite a few years back. And since then their answer to the high end has been a dual gpu board. Why should this launch be any different? All we have is rumour and for the most part slides that appear to have been tampered with.
Its going to be how it has been for the last while, 6970 will compete with 570 while the 6990 will give the 580 a good slapping.
The original subject for this tread was "ATI cuts 6950 allocation". Ten days after posting, what can we decipher regarding AMD's reasons for cutting the number of 6950's that will be allowed to market?
*At the start of this thread the consensus seemed to be that 6970 would just about beat GTX580 and 6950 would be on par with GTX570.
*Half way through the thread it appeared than 6970 woruld be a good 20% faster than 580, with some suggesting 30-40% was probable.
*Now 6970 looks like it will have a rough ride, being about equal to NVidia's older GTX480. Where does this leave 6950?
Perhaps AMD cut 6950 numbers because it sits too close to the 6870, and maybe within reach of cheap GTX470's and 5870's? If this is the case, these cards could be the biggest lemons AMD have released for a long time. Can anyone think of a better reason for cutting 6950 numbers?
*At the start of this thread the consensus seemed to be that 6970 would just about beat GTX580 and 6950 would be on par with GTX570.
*Half way through the thread it appeared than 6970 woruld be a good 20% faster than 580, with some suggesting 30-40% was probable.
*Now 6970 looks like it will have a rough ride, being about equal to NVidia's older GTX480. Where does this leave 6950?
Perhaps AMD cut 6950 numbers because it sits too close to the 6870, and maybe within reach of cheap GTX470's and 5870's? If this is the case, these cards could be the biggest lemons AMD have released for a long time. Can anyone think of a better reason for cutting 6950 numbers?
thought I was going to have no PC to even consider one of these tonight .. got home to find we'd had a power cut, but half the lights in the house were on - half were off - TV was on (plasma) - but nothing else ... amp tried to turn on and flashed loads of random lights - PC was off ... got volt-meter out .... 128 V !!! - after 30 mins (at 128V !! - I turned everything off as soon as I realised) they finally turned off all power
PC still works, so does amp
bring on Wednesday I still have high hopes for AMDs release this week, I genuinely can't imagine it would be a lemon, if not surely they'd just delay it further
PC still works, so does amp
bring on Wednesday
I still have high hopes for AMDs release this week, I genuinely can't imagine it would be a lemon, if not surely they'd just delay it further
That's bull****, have a look at HD5970, 334mm2 x2. HD6970 is 389mm2 large as it stands, no matter if the performance figures are correct or not. That is a mahoosive difference evident in power requirements as well. Not massive you say?
C'mon guys, there's something wrong with these benchmarks, HD6970 is barely faster than HD5870. Why would AMD rename their cards to 6900 if it wasn't going to be absolute high-end?
Don't forget that Nvidia has also a dual-gpu in the works and AMD has definitely better R&D department detectives to know about it for a long time. HD6990 is not going to compete with GTX580. It doesn't have to, HD5970 does the job just fine.
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and how is that going to work ?
1 x msi card
with
1 x msi bios ?
1 x asus bios ?
why ??? err no !
That's bull****, have a look at HD5970, 334mm2 x2. HD6970 is 389mm2 large as it stands, no matter if the performance figures are correct or not. That is a mahoosive difference evident in power requirements as well. Not massive you say?
Believe what you want, come Wednesday we'll have the answers.
That would be just pants on head retarded
Believe what you want, come Wednesday we'll have the answers.
I believe in common sense.
Enough to justify pricing quoted by Gibbo? I don't think so sir. What about all the reviewers and sources on this Forum that claimed better performance and saw the evidence for it? Have they all gone to hell?
So much better to buy two of any other cards rather than a 6970.
I am loving my gtx470s even more