Radeon 7970 reviews!!!!

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Perkomate

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Looks like some solid performance gains, reasonably low power consumption, low heat, acceptable noise, but for a price that's a little OTT.

In one benchmark (batman arkham asylum i think) it actually beat the 6990.
It's the fastest single card you can buy today.

P.S. there might already be a thread, but whatever.
 
I might be looking to upgrade my graphics card in the new year... ;) I'm on a GTS 450 at the moment and I'm thinking I should give a Radeon a shot.
 
mate you better have a heap of cash saved away, or wait for the 7950 and the nvidia cards to be released for the prices to come down.

I'll try and hit up a 7950 2gb when they get below $300 or so, or if nvidia's cards are better then i'll switch sides.
 
I don't think that Nvidia will let the Raedon dominance of the 7970 last for long. Lets hope that the 670 and 680 dominate the 7970, and at a reasonable price.
 
wolfeking said:
I don't think that Nvidia will let the Raedon dominance of the 7970 last for long. Lets hope that the 670 and 680 dominate the 7970, and at a reasonable price.
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i wouldn't hope for that to happen, but as long as they provide competition and drive the prices down it's all good for me.
 
wolfeking said:
I don't think that Nvidia will let the Raedon dominance of the 7970 last for long. Lets hope that the 670 and 680 dominate the 7970, and at a reasonable price.
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i'd say no to that, i don't think we want amd to go bankrupt now do we? they need to be good at something, but it would be cool if nvidia's cards were even faster.
 
I would rather that they do.

Either way, I always prefer Nvidia. If they aren't faster, at least they have very stable and easily locatible drivers.
 
It would certainly be silly to buy the first next gen card that comes out. Nvidia will be introducing their 28nm GPU's midway through 2012. Personally, this is what I'm waiting for.

AMD aren't going to go bankrupt. They have the budget CPU market on lock.
 
jonnyp11 said:
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Well, when your a linux user, there really is no other choice then Nvidia. Nvidia actively writes and supports drivers for linux. AMD is a pretty big hit and miss all the time. So, most of the linux users shy away from there when they can. Call me a fanboy too, fine with me. I'd rather have a slightly more expensive card over a cheaper card that I can't do anything with on linux. :)
 
Those are some nice benches. But I don't see those few frames between it and the GTX 580 a deal breaker. Especially when you can get the latter for around $50 - $70 less.
 
why spend 550 dollars on this card when a 6990 can be had for like 150 bucks more.. especially with amd's horrendous drivers, it will be a century before all the potential problems are ironed out if any
 
I am a Nvidia fan since a long time, looking at 7970 bench I thought of switching but realized Nvidia still has to come out with 600 series which I think :o will be better than Radeon 7000.
But its pretty good to see some competition to the GTX 580, I read quite much of review and saw 7970 was 15-20% faster than 580.
Why aren't there any much details about the 600 series?
 
Firstly, Intel makes more money than AMD's total annual earnings, in less than a month.

AMD, just laid off 10% of its entire workforce and has a failed chip in the enthusiast market.

Driver support sub-standard.

Expensive too late card appears.

nvidia will crush this, without a doubt.

I hope AMD has a kickass cheap and chearful (something like the 8800GT), that gets kickass frames, and crossfires like a mofo.

Ankur said:
But its pretty good to see some competition to the GTX 580, I read quite much of review and saw 7970 was 15-20% faster than 580.
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Yes but its 450 pounds. That is equivalent to nearly $700 AUD for a 20% improvement.

Currently the GTX580 sells for about $520 AUD. Thats 25% less expensive for 20% less power. Not a good deal really.
Its basically even when you consider $/FPS. So do you need such power?

Only if you have multiple 1080p resolutions or equivalent. Or 3D desires. Other than that, the standard 1080P single monitor, will only produce 60Hz anyway.

So getting 150FPS is pointless for most. Buy a 580, be done with it, then add another in a year. You wont look back.
 
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Someone IS a fanboy though :P

Look, to be fair, AMD's cut stuff was all marketing staff. Which is fine by me.

Substandard drivers: Not entirely. Drivers themselves are alright, driver interface is just terribly clunky.

Expensive card yes but people will buy it, they always do. Also, remember the 5000 series? How long did it take for nvidia to get fermi out? A fair while. I believe AMD had something like a 6 month head start.

But yeah, I won't be buying a 7970. In fact I'm wrapping up a purchase of a 560 ti :)
 
On the drivers, it just depends on the system. I have yet to find a XP driver that is stable for the HD4250 on sisters Acer laptop. That is completely a driver issue, their Vista driver is just fine.
 
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