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Hate to break it to you but Kepler drivers really aren't that great as is right now either. I don't even get the Nvidia/AMD drivers thing. Nvidia has just as awful a track record as AMD does on that front. How quickly have people forgotten that G80 was unusable on Vista for six months? Or that Nvidia drivers were responsible for a full 28% of all Vista crashes? Let's be real here. They both could be a lot better.
That said I imagine GK110 (if it's a gaming card) and HD8xxx will have both AMD and Nvidia fall back a little to their 'old' positions. I don't expect AMD to maintain the lead they have right now with the ghz edition but I do expect them to regain the price/perf advantage.
If Nvidia is done with large dies in GeForce cards however it's a whole new ballgame.
Not to mention the fan-stopping card-killing 196.75. Still, the GHz edition has yet to show its face. It'll be interesting to see how pricing changes in the coming months.
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Great job AMD, Get that early lead over Nvidia! thumb.gif

Early lead? I'm confident Nvidia is ready with a refresh and this time will be right on track with AMD's release.

I speculate we will see the flagship cards in December for both AMD and Nvidia.

On a side note: Consumer confidence that GPU's will work out of the box is important to maintain customer satisfaction and shouldn't take half a year to iron out.
 
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Early lead? I'm confident Nvidia is ready with a refresh and this time will be right on track with AMD's release.
I speculate we will see the flagship cards in December for both AMD and Nvidia.
On a side note: Consumer confidence that GPU's will work out of the box is important to maintain customer satisfaction and shouldn't take half a year to iron out.
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Hate to break it to you but Kepler drivers really aren't that great as is right now either. I don't even get the Nvidia/AMD drivers thing. Nvidia has just as awful a track record as AMD does on that front. How quickly have people forgotten that G80 was unusable on Vista for six months? Or that Nvidia drivers were responsible for a full 28% of all Vista crashes? Let's be real here. They both could be a lot better.

Because nVidia has never had these problems. At least AMD's issues were only for crossfire.

Anyway, I've skipped this gen, and will skip the Ghz edition cards too. Heres hoping 8k gets out on time, I'll need to burn some x-mas money by then biggrin.gif
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Consumer confidence that GPU's will work out of the box is important to maintain customer satisfaction and shouldn't take half a year to iron out.

This.

With the way their drivers have been lately, I think Sea Monkeys would be a more fitting name. A November release and a May usability date? Yeah, Sea Monkeys...
Edited by MacG32 - 6/20/12 at 9:59pm
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so much derp!

 

Who cares about the 7990..? It will be eclipsed anyways, someday... whenever.., etc. The big news is that the $200 segment will get moAr feature rich and allow a wider audience with remarkable gaming with the 8770, etc.

 

There is always enough hardware to push whatever exoctica ur persueing..   how/why does the 7990 define anything? Specially when we are within a thread that makes it EOL..

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I meant to get across either AMD or Nvidia, not to single out anyone. Regardless, if your not ready out if the box with a complete product on a hardware and software support, then you prematurely released.

I'm glad to hear things seem to be back on track with releases.
 
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I meant to get across either AMD or Nvidia, not to single out anyone. Regardless, if your not ready out if the box with a complete product on a hardware and software support, then you prematurely released.
I'm glad to hear things seem to be back on track with releases.

I think consumers having confidence that their card won't be killed by a driver update is a bit more important.

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As others have mentioned, I will not be purchasing any more AMD cards until they start releasing better drivers. I had no issues with a single card, Once I hit 2-3 cards THEN I started having problems and I am still using drivers released in February for my tri fire eyefinity setup. That STINKS. I really like AMD cards but will be going back to Team Green until these are addressed.

have you tried 12.6 yet? also why do you need three cards just for eyefinity. i run eyefinity just fine on 1 card (granted i will be getting a second 7970 in a few months)
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Can we please stay on topic.

"AMD has bad drivers" - "If AMD fixed their drivers, I might consider them." - "I'm sticking with the green Team." "GK-" I'll stop there...

None of these things have much of anything to do with the article, some of the comments here have literally ZERO to do with the article... If you don't have anything to say about the article itself, just don't post. Simple. So your gonna buy a nvidia card? Good for you, go to the rants and raves or something and make a post telling us all about it.

This is looking really good for AMD right now. They seem to have gotten into a regular release schedule thats both aggressive and yet predictable it seems. AMD seems to be doing most things right when it comes to GPU's. Now if they could transfer this over to their CPU design/release schedule the whole company would be looking better. But this gives us a lot to look forward to. Can't wait for some hard numbers to trickle out in a few months.
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Man I love big die designs, I want all the usability out of a card as possible, I was so disappointed with the 680 the game performance was a nice jump, but for a $650 dollar card (AUS) I want it to be world shattering performance game and compute and heck it should fly for that much, being Uni ish I probs a couple years of high end cards but, if we spend that much on a gpu we got the other tec to back it up so make it strong, make it suck power and chew through the numbers, make te mid range cards the ones with nice power numbers so we can run it on cheaper powers supplies, that's my 2cents
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