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January 9 Launch Date for AMD Radeon HD 7900

LeJosh said:
I wonder if there will be a boost in performance when used with PCIe 3.0
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Considering there isn't a GPU on the planet that has maxed out PCIE 2.1? I doubt it.

It's just more snake oil dude, nothing more, nothing less.

Kinda like 16x 16x multiple GPU compared to say, 8x 8x. 16x? wow, a 5% increase maximum ! I better rush out and buy a new motherboardnot.

DDR3, triple channel, USB 3, etc etc? all over hyped. Each made, at best, about a 10% performance increase over their predecessors, but none warranted the hype.

Given five years when they have things that completely support them then no doubt USB3 will come into its own. But like many other things when they are launched they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
 
ALXAndy said:
DDR3, triple channel, USB 3, etc etc? all over hyped. Each made, at best, about a 10% performance increase over their predecessors, but none warranted the hype.
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USB 3.0 has made a big difference to using my external HDD's.

I can transfer data to them now at around 2½-3 times the speed I could using USB 2.0.

For that purpose it's a welcome 150-200% performance increase.
 
I think with all the bandwidth/updated protocols etc, we never get to see the specific gains as they are normally bundled on a motherboard with a better memory controller and processor etc..

I recall the IDE to SATA then SATA 2 never impressed me much, and I always run raid 0 so it should have really ;)
 
LeJosh said:
IDE to SATA was purely better cabling was it not?

But SATA 2 did improve a small bit. SATA 6gb/s is good for "Raided" SSDs apparently.
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It was but it's a much faster high speed serial data bus compared to the IDE which was a parallel bus the best of which they called ATA 100 compared to the ATA 150 for the first SATA.

I suppose the drives at the time could not saturate the parallel bus (if it was configured correctly) and when the 150 sata turned up the drives had not got much faster.

Yes I did notice a "snappier" system with raided SSD's on SATA 3 but that did come with sandybridge for me, with an onboard memory controller.
 
creed said:
Thought this card was hyped to be as good as a 6990...review says no!
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Looking at benchmarks, in some tests it is actually better.
Farcry 2 it wins
BF3 it wins with AA and higher resolutions

Even if it doesn't win the tests, it's close to the 6990, and it's beating off the 580. Imagine what this thing could do with a proper overclock.
I think expecting it to beat a dual GPU card of the previous gen, or even match it is a bit of a tall order, I don't see why anyone would even expect it to do so.
 
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