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[H]Fall 2012 GPU and Driver Comparison Roundup
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Yeah without the boost clock noted it makes the results a lot less useful.
My problem with [H] is that they use such a mix of testing methods and ways to present the information, many of them quite subjective that they can ultimately use it to present any conclusion they want.
My problem with [H] is that they use such a mix of testing methods and ways to present the information, many of them quite subjective that they can ultimately use it to present any conclusion they want.
I agree. They often don't use the same settings for comparisons, sometimes what they call 'Max playable settings'. I like the graphs they use though, but it looks like AMD won the bidding for this review.
They are still cherry picking the 'boosted' 7970 as opposed to using a 'boosted' 680. Not a fair comparison. They don't state anywhere what the 680 is boosting at (it takes a couple of seconds to look and see), so for this reason, I call it kissing up to AMD.
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I still think amd and Nvidia are in bed with each other.
Strange how amd release a kick ass driver 10 months after the release of the 7970....
And i own two of them
Strange how amd release a kick ass driver 10 months after the release of the 7970....
And i own two of them
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I'll say it again - if you spend a couple of minutes analysing the results you'll see large inconsistencies across games and across resolutions.
Really shocking review whereas if they'd done it honestly they'd have provided some really interesting results.
Honestly, there's nothing between the cards at 1080 which match each other at the same point on the scale, e.g. 660Ti/7870, 7970/680 etc etc. At higher res it's clear what is faster - no complaints there.
Then again in their overclocked comparison off 660Ti/670/7950 the 670's was practically at stock memory clock speeds
Also bearing in mind the 7970 GHz edition is effectively factory OC'd to claim the top GPU slot. They all overclock further of course and for a similarly good card the 7970 and 680 will overclock to the same overall performance at 1080.
Another site into the junk can.
Really shocking review whereas if they'd done it honestly they'd have provided some really interesting results.
Honestly, there's nothing between the cards at 1080 which match each other at the same point on the scale, e.g. 660Ti/7870, 7970/680 etc etc. At higher res it's clear what is faster - no complaints there.
Then again in their overclocked comparison off 660Ti/670/7950 the 670's was practically at stock memory clock speeds
Also bearing in mind the 7970 GHz edition is effectively factory OC'd to claim the top GPU slot. They all overclock further of course and for a similarly good card the 7970 and 680 will overclock to the same overall performance at 1080.
Another site into the junk can.
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It is very easy to hobble a 680 so that it doesn't use the boost.
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Of course its boosting. Its a stock card and comes boosting. No where do they state its not boosting. If it was not boosting then its not a stock gtx680.
Where is the proof? No where do they stste it is boosting. This is a very important factor in any bench, surely you can see this?
The issue that you're not seeing for some reason is that it would be quite easy to pick a rubbish booster and compare "like for like" against a good booster.
The GHz edition reference card doesn't actually really have that much overclocking headroom in real terms due to heat/noise.
As I said above - when overclocked they're even. The benchmark thread shows this yet this junk review puts them what? 16% different at stock clocks. Which would implicitly imply that the 680 overclocks this much further than the 7970 which is of course false.
The review has holes right through it.
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oh, didn't know that. Thought it was locked into the bios.
iirc you can fiddle with the 'P states' to kill the boost clock completely.
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If it was not boosting then yes but you can bet it was. You only need to look at all there awards to see they are in the nvidia camp atm. Most amd cards get no reward never mind a bronze and almost all the nv cards get a gold or silver.
Theres no proof as they provided none but lets get real.
Roughly. Mine was a good en and boosted to 1110 MHz. Not bad for a reference
.@TheRealDeal can you read my post above? There ain't no doubt how bad this review is.
Ok, let us say you are correct. What is it boosting to?
There is no such thing as a reference cooled GHZ edition card, all of them have decent coolers and (silicon lottery permitting) decent over clocking headroom.