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** Single, Dual & Triple Card 7970 - BATTLEFIELD 3 - HIGH RESOLUTION BENCHMARKS **

Gibbo said:
From watching Rich play the game game on both the GTX 580's and 7970's the game seems more dependent on the minimum FPS.

As a single 7970 seemed to me very playable, even Rich commentated in his surprise at how smooth it felt. Crossfire 7970 was simply fluid at all times with no issues on play-ability. :)

Yet the results show both cards to be pretty much neck and neck, a single GTX 580 was getting choppy in areas, I know I noticed it and so did Acemodder. A pair of GTX 580's seemed just like a pair of ATI 7970's, gameplay was fluid, though the ATI seems to have a much better minimum FPS in crossfire compared to SLI. What I did like was a single 7970 remained silent even whilst gaming. :)

In short from our testing if your looking to buy a new high-end card now then your not going to go wrong with either a 3GB 580 or 7970 they both have great power.

If it was my £400-£450ish I'd be buying a 7970, am sure Rich would be buying a GTX 580.
Wait to see more reviews of 3GB 580 vs 3GB 7970 from other places to really help with your decision and then come and buy from OcUK because we obviously stock both. :D

Or wait until April/May for NVIDIA's new flagship card. ;)
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No offense here but its a dangerous game using the phrase "silent even whilst gaming" when every single review says the complex opposite to that.
 
It seems that BF3 is the new Crysis, and this one game may have a big say in determining whether AMD's and NVidia's new cards succeed or fail. However, pricing may also play a small part in the equasion and I wonder who will start cutting first.
 
555BUK said:
It seems that BF3 is the new Crysis, and this one game may have a big say in determining whether AMD's and NVidia's new cards succeed or fail. However, pricing may also play a small part in the equasion and I wonder who will start cutting first.
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given the fact that a 580 is the same performance as the 7970 and 580's been neraly a year old its hard for me to spend my money now because unless nvidia have a massive fail in kepler then we should see a minimum of 10% more from the new nvidia cards

However if amd see the light and drop the price to £300 per card (very unlikley) before the launch i cant see where these cards would fit in apart from amd/ati fanboys buying them
 
I'm not feeling these 7000 series if I'm honest, should have pushed the 580's a bit more (not really a great OC @ 850).

So to summarize, ATI/AMD flagship card is on par with a 1 year old tech in the most popular title this year.

Poor show if I'm honest, but no doubt these will sell very well as it's not a poor card, but I can see the cost being too high.. but people are loyal to the brand.
 
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Cupra said:
well what a fair test that was
stock clocks for the 7970 are 925 MHz core and 1375 MHz yet you use it at 1100mhz core and 1450 mhz on the memory

the gtx 580 is 772mhz core stock and gets 850mhz on the core with no memory overclock at all

well what a fair fair benchmarking session this has been

we need either both at stock or both overclocked propperly not ohh well ill clock these a little bit but as were trying to sell the new cards we will clock these more

make me spend my money i dont want to wait till march
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lol at that i know the feeling :D

But on another note that might be the highest oc for the 580's with out using the voltage control, which would make this a fair test .........
 
My comment earlier about some cards costing £500, OCUk has cards @£380 too, the point was about how much money some people are willing to pay for a card.

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Out of the testing at your res on BF3, the 7970 is the smoother card as the mins are considerably higher, take into account that the 7970 oc's like nothing we have seen before and it's on launch drivers over mature drivers.

I still think it's madness buying 2 cards for 1 game, but that's me, your 480's must be able to play with decent settings surely, even with no AA it still looks the part.
 
Have AMD reimplemented sideport, or something like it? It seems Xfire performance is very impressive straight out the gate. The performance coupled with the ability to turn off the second card when it's not required really makes Xfire very attractive- or at least the option to add another card in 18 months.
 
555BUK said:
Would you buy a Ferrari if you could afford one? Most people buy the best they can afford, but Ferrari's are too much for my budget.
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depends what you want from a car, rallying,drifting, quarter mile, handling circuit, track day car. daily driver, or poof look at me i got money but don't know how to have a drive.

I certainly wouldn't buy a ferrari (except a f40 )
I'd rather build a gt30 485hp cosworth yb'd caterham,
that would destroy any ferrari, yet be considerably cheaper too.
 
Combat Fighter said:
I agree with you mate. ;)

I spent loads of hours over years with BF2 which was a great game at the time. I don't think I will be doing the same with BF3 (which is a shame).

BF3 is not quite as good as it could be (in some ways I prefer BFBC2), I just hope that EA's next one will be better.

BFBC3 perhaps? :D
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I bought bc2 completed single player, but have played online for about 20 hours then i got bored with it.

I bought bf3 the day it came out. have only just completed single player today, As found out my random 2-5 min crashing on high or ultra was down to lack of system ram. I've played online on bf3 for about 10 hours,, and i'm getting bored.

But I have just reinstalled bf2142 and I am am loving the titan on suez canal and the gunship and the floating mines,, puts a smile on my face even after all these years.

It proves a point that graphics aren't so important if the playability is there.

My 6950*70 unlocked and clocked from when they first came out, to 900/1375 at 1080p does a superb job for the money. currentlyenjoying assasins creed revelations, that rarely dips below 60fps seems to run better than the previous titles.
 
Um, so with a tiny overclock 2x 3GB 580's actually run BF3 faster than 2x stock 7970's? eek.

Edit: Ohh wait, the 7970's were at 1100Mhz and 850 Mhz 580's beat them? That is even worse!
 
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