[Atomic MPC]　AMD gives the 7970 a boost (to 1GHz) - Page 18

Originally Posted by forever109 

found it .
http://www.overclock.net/t/1231760/the-inquirer-nvidias-gtx680-gets-thrashed-by-amds-mid-range-radeon-hd-7870-in-gpu-compute

Originally Posted by Arizonian 

*snip*

"I had a quick look at an - unindentified, obviously, for the vendor's protection - GTX680 2GB card in that factory for just half hour. I was shown some 3Dmark 11 and similar benchmark results, but being a compute boffin, I ran my Sandra 2012SP2 benchmark that I carry around on a USB stick to check GPGPU compute performance in floating point, especially double precision."

Originally Posted by xeekei 

Good for AMD. Their cards really rock, in my opinion!

Originally Posted by Jackeduphard 

but there drivers stink
They need better drivers and less micro stuttering!

Originally Posted by svthomas 

I'd say this bump to 1 Ghz is partially due to AMD seeing the performance of the 670... Heck, the 670 is even giving the 680 a run for its money...

Originally Posted by Homeles 

Yes, a factory OC'd version is performing similarly to its bigger brother. Real big achievement there.

Originally Posted by xoleras 

Arizonian you spend more time arguing about the 680 here than actually enjoying it don't you? My thoughts are, at max overclocks the 7970 and 680 easily trade blows, and this I say after having purchased both setups. The 7970 wins some games, my setups were 7970CF overclocked and 680sli OC, 1125/1700 on the 7970s and max I can get on the 680s is +120 boost (and both cards boost to different levels, different quality chips apparently). Anyway, the 7970 wins some, 680 wins some, but I can say for a fact that the gap is gone when both are oc'ed to their max. I'm sure you've seen 7970 OC benchmarks vs 680 OC at HardOCP and LR, and various other sites, this is completely subjective but I believe the 7970 to have better OC scaling. Granted, my 680s TDR beyond 120 offset so maybe I didn't get the best overclockers, however, 7970CF oc'ed to 1125 definitely beats the 680 in some games (all crysis games, metro 2033, alan wake, witcher 2, bulletstorm), while they're both about the same in wow / bf3, and the 680 winning skyrim, dirt 3, lost planet 2, and some others. I'm also not too impressed with the 680 reference PCB which has a cheap 4 phase VRM and looks low quality all around, while the 7970 has more OC headroom out of the box (subjective opinion.)
Anyway, this isn't meant to slight the 680 which is an awesome card in every way, and in fact i'm planning on getting a GTX 690 for my second box. But why don't you just don't enjoy your hardware and simmer down? They are both great cards IMO, the 680 is a better buy for sure at stock, however the 7970 with 1100+ OC's are great as well. Go enjoy your hardware FFS.
As far as the topic on hand, i'd like to see AMD pull a rabbit out of their hat (like nvidia did with the GTX 580), 1000 isnt' enough. I would rather see a chip revision rather than a clock speed bump (again, similar to what nV did with the Fermi) But I guess the "stock" performance is getting a upgrade, shrug.