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Read more.Have price cuts and driver updates revitalised AMD's HD 7870?
Best for meI hope that incoming 660Ti wont be a faster card
£230 is still way too much for this level of performance, especially compared to the previous generation.
Someone,somewhere at AMD & Nvidia has decided to move mid-range performance into high end prices...not clever.
Not sure how you figure that? This OC 7870 - being faster than a 7950 - is around 20% faster than a stock 6970 - the previous generation top end card. And it's priced over 30% cheaper compared to the 6970 launch price, and even 10% cheaper than the 6970 when the 7950/7970 launched. So 20% more performance for 10% lower cost seems pretty reasonable to me...?Originally Posted by Bagpuss
The 7870 isn't 6 months old yet. It offers significantly better performance than the top end (AMD) card of the previous generation, despite currently being priced around the same - if you can find a 6970 for sale, that isIt performs slightly better than a GTX570, slightly worse than a GTX580 - and it's priced between those two cards, and not much higher than the GTX570. So wherever you look in the previous generation, it seems to me to offer the same or better performance for a similar or lower price...
EDIT: another look back at reviews confirms that the 7950 marginally outperforms a GTX580, so you're looking at an OC 7870 beating a GTX580 at a lower cost...
How can a bad be that the GTX 660 TI "looms near"? The point of the matter is that the 660 hasn't been released and we do not yet know pricing or performance
I'm pretty sure that the Hexus team are intimately acquainted with both the price and the performance of the GTX660Ti, extrapolating from this review and a recent facebook post:
People in the technology journalism business will generally be the first to know these things, after all...... We've an amazing thing for you on Thursday.... So amazing I can't tell you but you will honestly, hand on heart, be well - amazed.
My alarm bells are sure ringing over these 660 Ti comments. Fact is, the card has 25% less bandwidth and ROP's, and has been benchmarked scoring 22% slower than the 670 in Unigine. I really hope it's lack of high-end performance isn't going to be masked by lower settings benchmarks.
There are reviews out there already (youtube) and performance is pretty much what you'd expect..10-20% lower than a 670, although the 192bit memory bus does hurt it when you pile on the Anti Aliasing.
Pricing wise, you're not going to see much change from £250.
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The thing is that the GTX660TI has the same number of shaders and the same clockspeeds as a GTX670. So it could be around GTX670 level performance in many games at 1920X1080. However,my concern,is if many reviews skirt past things like higher quality AA settings,etc which is where the reduced memory bandwidth will be evident against the GTX670. If you look in the review in the OP,even Hexus mentioned how Nvidia didn't like DiRT:Showdown being used for example.I'm pretty sure that the Hexus team are intimately acquainted with both the price and the performance of the GTX660Ti, extrapolating from this review and a recent facebook post:
People in the technology journalism business will generally be the first to know these things, after all...
Anyway,hopefully the excitement will be about the price -maybe it will be around £200??
I find it funny how bad Kepler is at GPGPU, out of curiousity I decided to try out that LuxMark on my GTX460 1GB, on the sala 488k I get 472K samples a second even worse is the room scene where I get 225k samples... not much difference between that and the GTX670! Even the 7870 stock clock gives it a beating.
Hope the gtx660 is a flop, purely because AMD have a better card for the future... dont want my games handicapped in the future.
Well it's gonna have to be a lot cheaper than the 7950, which is currently £263.75 at Scan with 3 free games - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3gb-x...dmi-2x-mini-dp
7870 is as cheap as £203.74 now - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-x...l-dvi-hdmi-mdp
OcUK has the HD7950 for around £240:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...56&subcat=1673
It seems that the GTX660TI is $299 in the US:
http://www.compusa.com/applications/...r5Iu8ExkTmbnnQ
With VAT,that would work out at around £230.
Whoah I'm sorely being tempted by that 7950.
Don't trust Powercolor OC cards. I bought a so called OC 3870 which I had to underclock to get to work at all.
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UC 3870 then
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
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