News - AMD Radeon HD 6970 performance figures leaked

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here is a comparison between the HD6970 and the GTX570:

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/...ssage/35199174

[Jimbo75]

Neliz says that is the card at 190w TDP. If that's true (and Neliz isn't wrong very often) it's going to obliterate the 580.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

With PowerTune there will be even more performance available it seems.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The HD6970 PCB looks quite clean:

http://www.techpowerup.com/136313/AM...-Pictured.html

[Hicks12]

power tune technology, now that i think about it... isnt this what they had in the 9600XT! If i remember rightly that was an epic card for me , loved overclocking that beast .

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A picture of the HD6950 PCB:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...216839&page=13



It looks the HD6900 series uses a Vapour Chamber.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A well known member of the OcUK forums has received their HD6970 already. Supposedly, there is an exclusive download for the latest 10.12 drivers which come with the cards and this improves performance:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...&postcount=376

[TheAnimus]

How do you get crossfire scaling above 200% for two cards?!

Actually, these things are possible.

Often the law of diminishing returns is applied incorrectly, they fail to realise how its actually many problems that are been solved under the guise of it been one issue.

A classic would be a calculation of every element in a vector against itself. In your conventional view of PC there is 1GB of data to be compared, but only 512mb RAM, by doubling the workers, you've stopped it having to 'page' to slower data.

What I'm getting at is when you've a pipeline of tasks, if you imagine the critical path by been able to change that by having more workers there, your able to reduce the overall.


However I'd agree its more than likely PR bull in this.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some benchmarks from OcUK:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18217817

[Jimbo75]

So many people saying so many different things. AMD has kept it under wraps pretty well again.

Going live at midnight Tarinder?

[neliz]

So many people saying so many different things. AMD has kept it under wraps pretty well again.

Going live at midnight Tarinder?

Hexus is in the UK right? you might want to get out of bed a few hours earlier

[Jimbo75]

Hexus is in the UK right? you might want to get out of bed a few hours earlier

Sup Neliz!

I meant midnight UK time...which is just over an hour away.

Whether or not Tarinder tells us if he will be, I'll be checking here in 1 hour 17 mins anyway...

[Tarinder]

It ain't midnight

[scaryjim]

It ain't midnight

If the NDA doesn't expire at midnight (GMT), what are you doing here at this time

The real question is which bit of America it does expire at midnight in, so we know whether we have to be here at 5am or 8am

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

IIRC,5AM should be the NDA expiry in the UK. OTH,I could be entirely wrong!

[Jimbo75]

Lol, this is just unfair tbh.