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Official 7950 Benchmarks Thread

RavenXXX2 said:
Evey GPU core is different a core that does 1250 stable on one card may not on another. I think the Sapphire OC looks a good choice with a great cooler. At nearly 400 notes it's a bit expensive IMO.

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Aye, I looked it up and it looks fantastic. I'll be getting me one of those for sure :) Hope it'll still be in stock (and maybe a few quid cheaper) by 15th Feb.
 
 
Nvidia should drop prices to shake it all up(but can't see it myself), it would maybe stop all the moaning about prices!

If you want the best performance, then you have to pay for the privilege, is that not the Nvidia way?

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February 26th 2011

Wucked said:
Grats AMD, you've temporarily caught up.
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'Temporarily surpassed' is more like it, besides, AMD's cards are out the door, Nvidia's equivalent is speculation atm, what if there is another Fermi release mess up?
 
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ALXAndy said:
You are joking yes?

Go and look on Overclock3d. The 7950 bests a stock 7970 when overclocked.

How many 580s can do that then? that would be none.
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The 580's have been out for over a year AMD have offered similar performance for the same price. Its hardly exciting.
 
Ahh cherry picking. I like it.

It's long known that the 7 series have some catching up to do in BF3. It's down to drivers.
 
easyrider said:
The 580's have been out for over a year AMD have offered similar performance for the same price. Its hardly exciting.
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The 7970 hasn't even been out for a month. Yet it's a good whack faster than a 580.

The 7950 competes with the 3gb 580

Well, I say competes. It competes at stock. Overclocked the 7950 as I said is pretty much equal to its big brother, meaning a fair chunk faster than the 580.

Meaning, at £350 or so it's very cheap. Find me a 3gb 580 for that.
 
555BUK said:
GTX580 performance for GTX580 prices. Well done AMD!

I think that the least we should expect from a new generation grapgics card is either "better performance for the same price", or a "better price for the same performance". Until now, successive generations of graphics cards have proviided a >40% performance boost for roughly the same money.
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Not this crud again. The HD 7950 is a 3GB card! It is priced at 1.5GB GTX 580 level with performance that equals or more often beats the GTX 580 3GB while being £100 cheaper.

So you own expectations have been met:

"better performance for the same price". Yep equal or better than GTX 580 1.5GB at the same price with the massive bonus of having double the VRAM.

"better price for the same performance". Yep, better performance than a 3GB GTX 580 while priced much cheaper.

If 3GB is too much for some peoples needs, then wait for the 1.5GB version which will be ~ £300 or maybe even less as prices settle. I wonder what reasons some will find to complain about = or > GTX 580 performance at a cheaper price.

It seems that a lot of people complaining about the HD 7970/7950 do so for no other reason than AMD makes them. Those who complain about pricing should wait until the entire line-up is released. The 7950 1.5GB versions could end up at £300 with 25-50% faster than HD 6970 performance.
 
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ICDP said:
Not this crud again. The HD 7950 is a 3GB card! It is priced at 1.5GB GTX 580 level with performance that equals or more often beats the GTX 580 3GB while being £100 cheaper.

So you own expectations have been met:

"better performance for the same price". Yep equal or better than GTX 580 1.5GB at the same price with the massive bonus of having double the VRAM.

"better price for the same performance". Yep, better performance than a 3GB GTX 580 while priced much cheaper.

If 3GB is too much for some peoples needs, then wait for the 1.5GB version which will be £300 or maybe even less.
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If Nvidia released a 28nm card tomorrow that was the same speed and price as the 580 every one would say -

"oh wow ! 580 performance, cooler and quieter and uses less power !"
 
Secret_Window said:
I'm actually waiting to see what happens to all the prices.
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From where I stand prices are not important unless I am in the market to buy.

And I was, and I was lucky enough to have a result and have the money for a 7970.

And, it's faster across the board than a 580. From what I recall when I was sifting through hundreds of benchmarks the 7970 was absolutely faster in everything. Sometimes not by much, but it was a resounding victory.

I find that pretty exciting. Not because I bought one, but because we now have a new fastest card. It doesn't really matter by how much it is faster, because faster is faster no matter what way you look at it.

As I have said before man, I was desperate to get a 3gb 580. I really, truly was. I loved my 470 and the 6970 fiasco was a bloody nightmare. But I'd have just been a mug to pay £430+ for a card that was slower in absolutely everything, even when overclocked. I may aswell have set light to my money.

IMO the 7950 is even more exciting than the 7970. Simply because it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. It's less boring, it needs to be done manually by the owner.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the perfect recipe for a sure fire hit? Kinda like the old Opteron that could be pushed to equal its FX big brother that cost almost three times as much? or the original 1.8ghz Allendale Core 2 that did 3ghz on air as easy as pie?

So whether you find the 7950 exciting or not is here nor there tbh. It will be a massive success for AMD. Even more so than the 7970, because it needs to be played around with to get the best out of it. And I think that was 100% what AMD intended. They know how people want to wring every last ounce of performance out of a card themselves.
 
nitram100 said:
If Nvidia dropped the prices of their 580's, they could destroy AMD's new generation graphcis cards with the Nvidia old generation lol.
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What nVidia should 100% agree, if I was them, I'd dump on ATi's parade, reduce the 580GTX to £240 notes tops when they release the 600 series, why not, anything they sell there is a bonus!
 
@ALXAndy, What's the 6970 fiasco?

pugheaven said:
What nVidia should 100% agree, if I was them, I'd dump on ATi's parade, reduce the 580GTX to £240 notes tops when they release the 600 series, why not, anything they sell there is a bonus!
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Can't see it happening, Nvidia/AMD, imho work closely together and 'set' pricing, plus Nvidia would also have to take a massive hit with etailers existing warehouse stock.
 
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