Official 7950 Benchmarks Thread

[TheRealDeal]

It seems you guys dont really get the people that buy top of the range hardware, especially the ones that want the best no matter what. I have been around a few forums and seen guys selling there quad sli gtx580 setup for 4 7970's in crossfire. Amd must be pretty happy with sales atm or they would be dropping the prices. I dont like the price any more than most in here but these cards will sell and are selling as there are more mugs out there than you think.

 

[Locky]

And if you were capable of reading the thread you would have noticed that it was done in jest in response to some Nvidia fanboys posting one benchmark and then claiming that the 7950 was no better than the 580.

However, you didn't, did you?

But go on then, I'll humour you. Why, given that it has two cores that are individually slower than the 580 was the 590 faster?

I'd put those green tinted specs back on if I were you.





It's the perfect example. It's the perfect example of what happens when you make a card that is purely, 100% going to be judged on drivers for its overall performance.

As I said earlier. Under no circumstances at all, at any time, should a £350 single GPU card be able to beat it. But "response to stupid cherry picking" aside it has pointed that out.

same can be said here, under no circumstances a 1 year old card should get close to or beat a new gen card, but I can cherry pick benchmarks where it does just that.

keep telling your self that, your skin might turn red. as for green tinted glasses, err no, I might move over to a crossfire 7970 setup soon, so that one has been blown out, reason for this, the scaling in crossfire is very good indeed.

 

[dave_beast]

I might move over to a crossfire 7970 setup soon, so that one has been blown out, reason for this, the scaling in crossfire is very good indeed.

Nearing 100% scaling

 

[Locky]

Nearing 100% scaling

yeah, and tri fire goes into godlike mode, dunno how it does that though but it works well

 

[dave_beast]

under no circumstances a 1 year old card should get close to or beat a new gen card

My theory is the AMD bods clocked the card just enough to edge out other cards, leaving plenty in reserve (headroom) and up their sleeves for later (much higher clocked versions, 2308 cores on a Sapphire slide etc etc)

yeah, and tri fire goes into godlike mode, dunno how it does that though but it works well

Magic lol

 

[AndyOcUK]

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.

Exactly this, if you look at the arkham city scores on the ***** review, it beats the GTX580 by just 3fps, it has DOUBLE the ram and is from AMD's brand new ground up architecture 2 years in the making, GTX580 is around 15 months old with half the ram. I struggle to see how it is acceptable that this is a good card!?

 

[ArnieRambo]

Exactly this, if you look at the arkham city scores on the ***** review, it beats the GTX580 by just 3fps, it has DOUBLE the ram and is from AMD's brand new ground up architecture 2 years in the making, GTX580 is around 15 months old with half the ram. I struggle to see how it is acceptable that this is a good card!?

cause people are actually blind

 

[nitram100]

Exactly this, if you look at the arkham city scores on the ***** review, it beats the GTX580 by just 3fps, it has DOUBLE the ram and is from AMD's brand new ground up architecture 2 years in the making, GTX580 is around 15 months old with half the ram. I struggle to see how it is acceptable that this is a good card!?

but ..but ..but.. it uses less power and saves on your electricity bill!

 

[flopper]

7950 still beats the 580.
7950 overclock like nuts and way beyond the 580.
drivers will improve more than the 580.

its a winner in todays market.

 

[AndyOcUK]

but ..but ..but.. it uses less power and saves on your electricity bill!

Lol, always hated power efficiency being taken into account in review. This is top end performance hardware, Do Ferrari and Bugatti owners really give a toss about 12mpg, whopping insurance, tyres that cost thousands along with the environmental impact?

 

[DarkHorizon472]

Pricing still seems to be the main problem. Give it a few months and see what happens.

 

[Final8y]

Exactly this, if you look at the arkham city scores on the ***** review, it beats the GTX580 by just 3fps, it has DOUBLE the ram and is from AMD's brand new ground up architecture 2 years in the making, GTX580 is around 15 months old with half the ram. I struggle to see how it is acceptable that this is a good card!?

Mature NV drivers on known hardware on an NV optimized title v immature AMD Drivers on new hardware, would have never thought, why not whack the PhysX to max as well and then we can all say that even a NV 560 is the better card.

 

[Final8y]

As far as the many threads at the moment, boy! must be on the 10th worn out record by now, anyway have fun people.

 

[AndyOcUK]

Mature NV drivers on known hardware on an NV optimized title v immature AMD Drivers on new hardware, would have never thought, why not whack the PhysX to max as well and then we can all say that even a NV 560 is the better card.

Everything on the AMD card is clocked faster than GTX 580....it has DOUBLE the RAM, (this itself should be MORE than enough to compensate for any "Driver optimisations") PhysX will only put MORE strain on an NVIDIA card, plus this is AMD's brand new architecture. It should, by default, be better in everyway SIGNIFICANTLY.....it isn't.

Also, its common knowledge that Nvidia have, generally, far superior drivers. If there is a driver issue, thats AMDs problem that they should have sorted prior to RTM.

Really struggling to see any sense to your point mate.

As far as the many threads at the moment, boy! must be on the 10th worn out record by now, anyway have fun people.

will do.....don't forget your blinkers on the way out

 

[Final8y]

will do.....don't forget your blinkers on the way out

No logic to what you have just said but never mind.

 

[Final8y]

Everything on the AMD card is clocked faster than GTX 580....it has DOUBLE the RAM, (this itself should be MORE than enough to compensate for any "Driver optimisations") PhysX will only put MORE strain on an NVIDIA card, plus this is AMD's brand new architecture. It should, by default, be better in everyway SIGNIFICANTLY.....it isn't.

Also, its common knowledge that Nvidia have, generally, far superior drivers. If there is a driver issue, thats AMDs problem that they should have sorted prior to RTM.

All matter of a opinion. Bye!

 

[AndyOcUK]

All matter of a opinion. Bye!

clearly not mate.

BTW, did u know there is a multi-quote button?

 

[antran]

7950 still beats the 580.
7950 overclock like nuts and way beyond the 580.
drivers will improve more than the 580.

its a winner in todays market.

And your point is?

Considering the 7950 is a new tech. It better beat the 580 which is over a year old.

This what annoy me the most is everyone is comparing new tech. against old tech.

I'm still waiting for the day where AMD/Nvidia would release their next gen gpu sametime, that's the real competition.

 

[FrenchTart]

And your point is?

Considering the 7950 is a new tech. It better beat the 580 which is over a year old.

This what annoy me the most is everyone is comparing new tech. against old tech.

I'm still waiting for the day where AMD/Nvidia would release their next gen gpu sametime, that's the real competition.

Comparing the two current techs available from the two graphics vendors for a similar price is not crazy or weird. I really don't see why you have a problem with that.

You do realise that the important thing for consumers is whatever gives them best bang for buck at any one time?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

Forgetting of course that Nvidia are still trying to make up for Fermi fail. Which every one seems to have forgotten.

fermi never failed, it came out first as the gtx480, sure it ran hot, consumed lots of power but it beat the competition hands down in performance.

you want to talk about fail, look at the HD2900 from ati, it came out, ran hot, consumed lots of power but most of all, it was SLOWER than the competition. thats a fail and a half that many seem to forget.