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That is some sweet overclocking. Presumably they've got the most flexibility to counter keplar without having the chip be faster than it needs to be - the retail partners must be loving AMD at the moment.
Very impressive kudos to amd, hopefully kepler is competetive and we have a decent top end race on :)
cheers
brasc
prices are out - ouck coming in at around £350 , scan at £370 ebuyer not listing yet
We've quoted a basic price of £350, no? It's available for that much right now.
Needs to be £320 before i consider it. Damn good card though!
aye Tarinder -seem most are hovering around £350 :D ebuyer are listing now.
and aggreed - needs to drop a bit , coming in at the same money as the GTX 580 is all well and good - but AMD should steal the march and drop prices by 10% straight off
nice
so basically it beats the 580 in everything bar bf3, overclocks a ton more and at stock has 2/3 the power draw! Yeah, easy decision if you had to pick 580 or this :D.
curious though, didnt the 7970 overclock to similar speeds? So i guess the 7970 will always be ~15% faster if like for like but taking into account that its £100 cheaper... makes it a nice thing to know!
Now for me to wait for kepler so i can finally make my choice :(. Any chance of you guys running a benchmark for bf3 with those massive overclocks along with system draw to see how much it shoots up by?.
Anand have something similar:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hicks12
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5476/43930.png
well thats impressive, 100mhz on the core (xfx) manages an extra 15 fps increase (10 over the 580), excellent stuff!.
Just seen powerdraw for the xfx, even better... still less than a mid range card !
Yep - 28nm are really showing their worth, we've got 580 beating performance for far less power draw.
Hopefully Nvidia have had the same success and finally on par with AMD :P, be an interesting next few months!
It seems with some games the newer drivers produce a nice performance boost:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5476/a...-7950-review/2
You can flash a 7970 bios to these according to ocuk forums which gives a noticable performance increase!
It looks like the finalised drivers for thr HD7900 series will be released in March:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/...card_review/15
WTF??
What do you mean? This is quite normal with new cards. You always used to have to use the drivers that came on the CD for a few months if the card was new.Quote:
Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH
Yeah i don't see the problem, nothing new really. Have these cards had any issues with unstable drivers so far?
Not unstable AFAIK, but performance lower than expected in some games.
Kepler will be the same when its releasedQuote:
Originally Posted by kalniel
Personally i'm waiting to see the price/performance difference with the 1.5GB model. I'm hoping it's more than £25 though, as at that difference it's not worth getting the lower specced card. But at the moment I game on either a 37" 1080p TV or a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, and neither are likely to change any time in the life of this card. I simply don't believe I need 3GB graphics RAM yet. 1.5-2GB sure. But at the mo i'm playing on a 512MB card and while I can't ramp stuff like BF3 or Skyrim up to Ultra it deals with High well enough for texture details. I'd much rather get a card with less RAM but a higher core clock or similar.