GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970 OC: part IV-Scaling with the processor

[Final8y]

Dear Ehehei, I credeati that the monster was tired and retreated into the world of articles about was relaxing although motherboards and USB sticks, while my fellow distinsii and Ramiro destrabaleaza Matose is same and chip in with a bunch of goodies AMD graphic mark? Yes, sure, to play and to have fun with the new and overclockabile graphics boards, while Monster test USB sticks, right? Well ... not. Monster must train hard to monstruoasele articles on graphics boards which they will be published towards the end of March, and what training can be better than a new article about HD 7970, namely part IV (and last) of the epic, AMD Radeon HD 7970?

My colleagues have told you about the architecture, performance and overclocking and performance on multi-card does not hold to talk till the moment we do not have on hand and video cards of the competition, so I get to know another very interesting aspect, namely the way in which the new AMD processor architecture with scaleaza. Over time I could see that some video cards are more or less dependent on the processor, and in the case of a big step forward for AMD, you need to take to the puricat and the current architecture, to see how much we talking about CPU if you want a gaming system with this video card.

And obviously, we all noticed the behavior implementation GIGABYTE HD 7970 OC, which is one of the models who have reached common absolutely huge, so therefore we have to see what the newest creeatie knows those from GIGABYTE, so I got a HD questions, I rated 7970 OC overclocking potential, temperature, noise and of course scaling with the processor. Prepare your coffee in the morning, place your comfortable seating, because this article will keep you busy for a good time. The job!

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[Freddie1980]

That's a lot of work, thanks for the link although it was more to do CPU's then with video cards.

It was interesting seeing there's still some games that don't like AMD's new FX processors (in this case Lost Planet 2 but Crysis and Warhead as well seem to suffer) and I was surprised at how GPU dependant Shogun 2 Total War was. I have always expected Total War games to be more CPU dependant because with the ever increasing amount of units you can play with the CPU will have a harder time dealing with all the path finding and A.I instructions.

 

[drunkenmaster]

The Lost Planet results are soo.... hmm, suggestive of MASSIVE AMD sabotage. While in other games that are tough on cpu's an overclocked fx4100 can approach Intel's best because cpu limits come into play and it catches up in Lost planet Intel can run the game similar speed in 2core/2thread as maxed out, but AMD are 50% slower no matter what, which no other game shows that kind of difference?

I would put money on there being a flag in that game to detect AMD cpu's and run completely different code.

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Crysis 2 Intel's best chip with cores turned off and the FX4100 beats it easily, and the FX4100 gets fairly close when overclocked to the Intel chip maxed out(its GPU limited there, I'm not saying the AMD chip is almost as fast), basically there is no issue in most games here.

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But fully overclocked the fx4100 gets utterly spanked by a 2core/2thread Intel chip, which shows almost no speed difference between 2core/2thread vs stock in minimums. Which suggests the game really isn't heavily cpu limited though maxes are much more effected but still 4cores/4threads is enough to cpu limit the Intel chip.

 

[Martini1991]

That's a lot of work, thanks for the link although it was more to do CPU's then with video cards.

It was interesting seeing there's still some games that don't like AMD's new FX processors (in this case Lost Planet 2 but Crysis and Warhead as well seem to suffer) and I was surprised at how GPU dependant Shogun 2 Total War was. I have always expected Total War games to be more CPU dependant because with the ever increasing amount of units you can play with the CPU will have a harder time dealing with all the path finding and A.I instructions.

The older ones were more CPU dependant, it's quite easy to cripple Rome Total Wars frames for example.