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8/13/12 at 11:11pm
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Looks like you forgot the part where AMD's completely dominating the $100-$300 market. Whoops.
Easy to forget, you know. Being most of the market, and all.
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8/13/12 at 11:36pm
go amd. I just don't want this company to die...unlike some of you guys
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8/13/12 at 11:51pm
Waiting for the BIOS to be leaked for reference 7950 owners to flash at their own free will. smile.gif

This is just going to push the standard 7950 down that much lower on the price scale, which is just going destroy the 660Ti, which it already does since its already only $10 more as is right now.

Nvidia needs to quit cutting down their midrange chip, and just release the big boy already.
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8/13/12 at 11:52pm
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Waiting for the BIOS to be leaked for reference 7950 owners to flash at their own free will. smile.gif
This is just going to push the standard 7950 down that much lower on the price scale, which is just going destroy the 660Ti, which it already does since its already only $10 more as is right now.
Nvidia needs to quit cutting down their midrange chip, and just release the big boy already.
I hope people don't buy that thing, the 7950 is such a better deal its just ridiculous.
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8/13/12 at 11:54pm
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Originally Posted by pioneerisloud View Post

Waiting for the BIOS to be leaked for reference 7950 owners to flash at their own free will. smile.gif
This is just going to push the standard 7950 down that much lower on the price scale, which is just going destroy the 660Ti, which it already does since its already only $10 more as is right now.
Nvidia needs to quit cutting down their midrange chip, and just release the big boy already.
Some 7950s were already around $320, this will probably push them below the $300 mark thrusting it into direct competition with the 660ti, yes? Boy, Tahiti is getting almost as many SKUs as GK104 is.
Also, if GK110 was ready, it'd be out. Nvidia isn't exactly holding back.
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8/13/12 at 11:56pm
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Waiting for the BIOS to be leaked for reference 7950 owners to flash at their own free will. smile.gif
This is just going to push the standard 7950 down that much lower on the price scale, which is just going destroy the 660Ti, which it already does since its already only $10 more as is right now.
Nvidia needs to quit cutting down their midrange chip, and just release the big boy already.
Some 7950s were already around $320, this will probably push them below the $300 mark thrusting it into direct competition with the 660ti, yes? Boy, Tahiti is getting almost as many SKUs as GK104 is.
Also, if GK110 was ready, it'd be out. Nvidia isn't exactly holding back.

There was a Gigabyte card going for $309 actually yesterday on newegg. The 7950 Windforce 3x.
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8/14/12 at 12:34am
I hope factory overclocked HD 7950 with powertune boost hit 1 Ghz speeds. And if they are priced at USD 360 - 370 that would be really nice. smile.gif
Edited by raghu78 - 8/14/12 at 1:36am
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8/14/12 at 1:59am
AMD just overclock their cards and release them. It is like Nvidia releasing a 850 MHz GTX 470 to destroy a HD6950.
Nice card if it is going to have higher overclocking potential than the original 7950. otherwise doesn't worth it if the original 7950 is at a much cheaper price point.
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8/14/12 at 6:56am
The new base clock speed of the HD 7950 will be 850 MHz, compared to the 800 MHz of the original reference HD 7950. The GPU will be able to boost as high as 925 MHz.
That should give the new 7950s a solid performance gain over the original with a clock speed increase of as much as 15%.

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8/14/12 at 10:16am
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The new base clock speed of the HD 7950 will be 850 MHz, compared to the 800 MHz of the original reference HD 7950. The GPU will be able to boost as high as 925 MHz.
That should give the new 7950s a solid performance gain over the original with a clock speed increase of as much as 15%. Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

No boost= no performance gains
And I doubt, with the reference cooler, it is boosting very far in those scenarios. Aftermarket coolers should open up the thermals and it should boost much further.
Edit: Worth noting that boost does not affect memory clocks, and any scenario that is largely CPU dependent will show no gains.
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AMD just overclock their cards and release them. It is like Nvidia releasing a 850 MHz GTX 470 to destroy a HD6950.
Nice card if it is going to have higher overclocking potential than the original 7950. otherwise doesn't worth it if the original 7950 is at a much cheaper price point.
Yeah. That's exactly what they had to do. Everyone who was buying cards was going 'Oh look the 7950 gets destroyed by the 670' while not realizing that some these 670s are boosting upwards of 1100MHz while the 7950 is sitting at 800MHz.
Edited by Sapientia - 8/14/12 at 1:27pm
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