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post #51 of 62
10/15/12 at 3:25am
9/11 conspiracies are real!

OT: will only buy if the price is justified. been holding off since 5850, performance jumps since then has been rather meh... but this pitiful hold-me-over 5570 is showing is age aaskull.gif
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10/16/12 at 11:17am
since i have just bought the cape verde i will skip hd8xxx and 9xxx as well.. my last gpu was amd cedar.
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post #53 of 62
11/10/12 at 10:58pm
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Originally Posted by Arni90 View Post

The 670 is on average tied with the 7970 and the 680 is on average tied with the 7970 GHz Edition at 1920x1080 resolution.
I'm not denying the 7970 edges out the 680 at higher resolutions like 2560x1600 or 5760x1080, but that doesn't change the fact that the majority of people are sitting with 1920x1080 monitors.

Nope, when overclocked the 79xx are faster cards, not tied.
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11/13/12 at 4:03am
He didn't say anything about overclocking.
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post #55 of 62
11/13/12 at 4:29am
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He didn't say anything about overclocking.

Stock 7970 and GTX680 are on par with current driver releases.

When overclocking comes to the playfield, the 7970 scales better than the 680. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.
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post #56 of 62
11/13/12 at 5:34am
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Stock 7970 and GTX680 are on par with current driver releases.

Nope:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1322119/12-11-vs-310-33 thumb.gif
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post #57 of 62
11/13/12 at 7:16am
Wonder when we will see sea Islands.
Perhaps AMD are holding off as the world economy is in the toilet so they figured they would eek out some more performance from the 7900 series first and give themselves more time to have good drivers on launch of the HD8900 series.

Either way I have my cards since January 2012 and I still have the fastest single gpu around. Pretty sweet. thumb.gif

Wonder if there is much juice left in the 7970, 12.11 refined how the memory works, perhaps 12.12 will work on the core?

Surprised if we see the HD8000 series before March 2013 imo.
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post #58 of 62
11/15/12 at 2:27am
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15%-20% over the 7000 series sounds about right. If they overclock as well as the 7000 series then no need for worries, if they don't overclock well then they are a waste of time.

This is the turning point for me, i don't care if they release this cards @1050mhz and they clock to only 1200, i would not even look at them, because with overclocking the 79xx you would get alot close to 89xx if they are limited regarding oc (clock bumped referesh) good for casual users.
Edited by psyside - 11/15/12 at 2:36am
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11/15/12 at 4:58am
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Also, you are completely off on the Nvidia side of things.

I actually wouldnt rule it out what he said (about nVidia).

Fact is (and we all know that), that within the Kepler architecture, GK104 is merely a fragment of whats possible (Tesla GK110 just proves this).
Assuming the 7000 series would have been an absolute GK104 killer performance-wise, I wouldn't rule out the possiblity that we might have seen something different for the initial Kepler launch (i.e. GK100 or GK110) if nVidia really had to, but they actually didn't.
It's not unusual for a manufacturer to hold on to something and instead release something more competitor oriented first. People buy twice -> more profit. (iPhone 4S is a good example rolleyes.gif)
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11/15/12 at 6:07am
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I actually wouldnt rule it out what he said (about nVidia).
Fact is (and we all know that), that within the Kepler architecture, GK104 is merely a fragment of whats possible (Tesla GK110 just proves this).
Assuming the 7000 series would have been an absolute GK104 killer performance-wise, I wouldn't rule out the possiblity that we might have seen something different for the initial Kepler launch (i.e. GK100 or GK110) if nVidia really had to, but they actually didn't.
It's not unusual for a manufacturer to hold on to something and instead release something more competitor oriented first. People buy twice -> more profit. (iPhone 4S is a good example rolleyes.gif)
Tahiti is a fragment of what's possible with GCN as well, there's simply no reason to believe Nvidia is the only company designinig gpu architectures to able to scale well with more functional units.
There is, as you point out, reason to believe companies are restricting progress to make more money.
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