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Official 7950 Benchmarks Thread

dave_beast said:
First the 7970, now the 7950, man, Nvidia is butthurting
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oh dear..same old,same old amd fanboys songs..
oh,and nice one - comparing new,next gen cards to 2y old nvidia cards - and sometimes barely maching them - thats real achievement :D


Cyber-Mav said:
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. :rolleyes:
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dont even try to tell them this - in all amd's eyes Fermi failed for no reason ;)
 
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Mario said:
comparing new,next gen cards to 2y old nvidia cards - and sometimes barely maching them - thats real achievement :D
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Nvidias fanboiis comments from "on the ropes", there's not one Nvidia card that comes close to the 7950/7970. Start saving for AMD now Mario, or go save the princess from the castle or something :o
 
AndyOcUK said:
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.



will do.....don't forget your blinkers on the way out :p
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Uhm, no. Batman is an NV title, which runs mostly NV optimisations to look good on NV cards and as a 6970 and 580 owner I can quite confidently say where single GPU configurations are concerned you are talking out of your ass, with regard "driver quality."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5476/amd-radeon-7950-review/2

Now read this about the drivers, just so you can understand why Rome wasn't built in a day.
 
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Cyber-Mav said:
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. :rolleyes:
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Erm the 480 came out 6 months after the 5870, was hotter, louder, far more expensive and only beat it by 10%. I don't know what you are using to judge fail but that sure doesn't sound like a victory to me!

And yes the 2900 was a bigger fail :-)
 
Have to agree the GTX480 was a bit of a joke compared to the AMD 5870 at the time. It ran hotter and louder and used more power for 10% gains that were not here or there at the time.
 
kitch9 said:
Uhm, no. Batman is an NV title, which runs mostly NV optimisations to look good on NV cards and as a 6970 and 580 owner I can quite confidently say where single GPU configurations are concerned you are talking out of your ass, with regard "driver quality."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5476/amd-radeon-7950-review/2

Now read this about the drivers, just so you can understand why Rome wasn't built in a day.
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I understand drivers very well thanks mate.

Choose another game then.....BF3?

Same applies.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
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. :rolleyes:
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Buahahaha Mav you make me laugh, if only AMD had listened to you. How dare they ignore the mighty Mav!!!.

As for the FERMI fail, read straxusii's post 3 up #165. :p All explained right there for you, just so you see it for how it is, not how you think it to be.

R600 was only crippled because Nvidia couldn't do what was asked of them regarding DirextX 10. So your whole "nanana" stance can stop right now. If it wasn't for Microsoft, Nvidia wouldn't have had a DX10 spec card with the G80. If AMD had a card that could do AA through hardware then that battle would have been a lot closer. I was an owner of BOTH cards so I know what the card was like with and without AA first hand. The only reason Nvidia dominated was due to Microsoft and somehow got rewarded for not being able to do what was asked of them. When it comes to innovation, hats off to AMD. Nvidia have often been slow in this regard. Physx was an acquisition of Nvidia but fair enough regarding 3D.
 
This card makes having a 7970 pointless, AMD kinda shot themselves in the foot with this aswell as the pricing. £400 for a card that's not even the fastest in their 7xxx series line up!?
 
shadow_boxer said:
this thread seems to have gone wildly off track and decended into the usual amd v nvidia battle.
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Sorry my comment is due to Mav having a long hatred for AMD. Just reminding him of what happened as it seemed to have slipped his mind.

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I was all set on the 7970, then the 7950 but now I'm thinking to wait till Kepler. I'll wait a month and see if Nvidia can make me want to hold onto my money for 4 weeks as I'm going to be too busy to play. If nothing has surfaced regarding the Nvidia card I'll buy the 7950 as I'm only using 1920x1440 max resolution.

It is impressive it's side by side with the OC'd 7970. :)
 
elrasho said:
This card makes having a 7970 pointless, AMD kinda shot themselves in the foot with this aswell as the pricing. £400 for a card that's not even the fastest in their 7xxx series line up!?
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Agreed, especially considering the OC potential and that's why I went for the 7950 :cool:
 
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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My thoughts exactly! I guess a true breakthrough in performance is needed for current performers to drop in price. AMD just hasn't achieved that.
 
AMD isn't going to win over anybody with cards that perform and cost the same as a GTX580. There is no doubt that the architecture is very impressive and it certainly has a huge amount of overclocking headroom but they need to undercut nVidia in order to increase their marketshare. Obviously they don't need to be as cheap as the HD5xxx series but £250-300 is where they should have been priced, with the 7970 in at £350-400 and the 7990 at £550-600.

I'm not sure I remember any major release where the cards were readily available after launch. Nobody feels they are getting a bargain here; they know that they're paying over the odds. And if we see a major price drop, particularly if nVidia responds, then existing customers will be annoyed.
 
AndyOcUK said:
I understand drivers very well thanks mate.

Choose another game then.....BF3?

Same applies.
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BF3 is a strange one as reviewers insist on benching with MSAA, which quite frankly, is broken with that games engine and MASSIVELY hammers performance whilst not actually applying AA to a lot of edges on all cards..
 
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