January 9 Launch Date for AMD Radeon HD 7900

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 Dec 2011 at 16:28

Guru said:
So... my burning question remains, should I cancel my £289 Nvidia 570 GTX 2560MB and wait or not? (In stock on the 23rd of Dec)

I've not cancelled it yet, but still can.

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Seeing as you're Nvidia only. I wouldn't bother no. 289 is currently a good deal and socks are low on 570s so worst case scenario 570 2.5GB becomes 289 as standard. Even if it drops to 269 or even 259 I'd still buy now because it's still a fair bit of money and you are paying to use it NOW, well Dec 16th iirc.

That's only because you cannot do AMD, that would be a different response

EDIT: oh 23rd December

elrasho · 15 Dec 2011 at 16:29

flopper said:
if one plays at 1920x1080 or such, one dont need more power unless one wanna do silly AA levels.

I play at 1080P and my CF 5850s are struggling to keep 60fps on the new BF3 Karkand maps on Ultra. I welcome these new cards with open arms.

Karateyid · 15 Dec 2011 at 16:44

So want a new card but cost is likely to be prohibitive ATM.. Unless a tasty Xmas bonus and appraisal bonus happens.. And in the current economic climate I'm not too hopeful of that

Guru · 15 Dec 2011 at 16:45

[WU-TANG]GZA;20805223 said:
Seeing as you're Nvidia only. I wouldn't bother no. 289 is currently a good deal and socks are low on 570s so worst case scenario 570 2.5GB becomes 289 as standard. Even if it drops to 269 or even 259 I'd still buy now because it's still a fair bit of money and you are paying to use it NOW, well Dec 16th iirc.

That's only because you cannot do AMD, that would be a different response

EDIT: oh 23rd December

haha

I have a hacksaw and a penchant for good graphics, anything is possible lol

xsistor · 15 Dec 2011 at 16:54

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
According to the slide the HD7970 has an idle power consumption of under 3W.

I bet that's just for the gpu and not he whole circuit board

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:00

Guru said:
haha I have a hacksaw and a penchant for good graphics, anything is possible lol

Well that's opened up a can of worms....

I'd be tempted to cancel it in that case in hope that a 7950 is within reach by launch for 289 ish, benchmarks should be around by then or short after so you can judge it Vs the 570.

You've got the 280, right? Like I've said several times, it's not like you're stuck with onboard gfx.

Just be careful with that saw !

bru · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:15

Broken Hope said:

StonedPenguin said:
What does the Primitive rate mean do you know?

possibly they have gone down the route of the the core running twice as fast as the rest of the card just like the Nvidia cards do..... any other sugestions?

Broken Hope · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:29

bru said:
possibly they have gone down the route of the the core running twice as fast as the rest of the card just like the Nvidia cards do..... any other sugestions?

No, it's just how many triangles/polygons it can draw per clock, pretty sure current cards are 2 per clock too.

Hoping this is fake or a joke otherwise AMD Tessellation is still crippled compared to Nvidia's.

Sampsy · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:32

tellmewhy99 said:
my country has started to per order the 7970 now,

7970 = rm2398 / £530
7950 = rm1898 / £430

Not a chance in hell I am paying that.

TheRealDeal · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:35

Broken Hope said:
No, it's just how many triangles/polygons it can draw per clock, pretty sure current cards are 2 per clock too.

Hoping this is fake or a joke otherwise AMD Tessellation is still crippled compared to Nvidia's.

The results are blanked out so we cant tell anything from it. What we can see is that when the tesselation factor goes past 3 the 7970 starts pulling away from the 6970 in tesselation rate.

bru · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:41

laughing out loud what is the point of them leaking the slides with the results blanked out.
is there anything to be read into it that the blank boxes extend very close the the yellow performance maker of the 6970.

Broken Hope · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:59

Found a better version of the slide.

flopper · 15 Dec 2011 at 18:04

Broken Hope said:
Found a better version of the slide.

If true, pretty much what I expected.

xsistor · 15 Dec 2011 at 18:17

bru said:
StonedPenguin said:

What does the Primitive rate mean do you know?

Click to expand...

possibly they have gone down the route of the the core running twice as fast as the rest of the card just like the Nvidia cards do..... any other sugestions?

The primitives most certainly refers to graphics primitives per clock cycle. It's not info usually displayed on graphics cards specs, which may have confused some.

sambuka · 15 Dec 2011 at 18:55

hominid · 15 Dec 2011 at 19:04

Good news if true: http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-bri...-series-forward-december-22nd-2011/14255.html

Release date brought forward to 22nd December!

cainer · 15 Dec 2011 at 19:07

sambuka said:
snip

wow, advert overload

Purgatory · 15 Dec 2011 at 19:14

cainer said:
wow, advert overload

Exactly what I thought and them slides tell us nothing that we already know. Please use hosts that don't have 100's of adds and windows that spawn out of nowhere.

gropingmantis · 15 Dec 2011 at 19:17

Purgatory said:
Exactly what I thought and them slides tell us nothing that we already know. Please use hosts that don't have 100's of adds and windows that spawn out of nowhere.

There were ads? Protip: Get ad-block plus addon.

Oooh cant wait to see what happens on the 22nd. Think I will still be waiting for Kepler though and comparing before committing to buy.

sambuka · 15 Dec 2011 at 19:18

Purgatory said:
Exactly what I thought and them slides tell us nothing that we already know. Please use hosts that don't have 100's of adds and windows that spawn out of nowhere.

Sorry. I didn't see a single add looking at those pics.