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ATI 7970 first benchmark.
CalmOceans
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From tomshardware. This is the only leaked benchmark slide so far, the rest were bogus, if more come out, go ahead and post them here.
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An interesting slide, but this just shows tesselation performance, and it's in my opinion marketing hype at best. The people at toms hardware, especially the ones posting their ideas and speculation are comical to say the least. I've never read so much stupidity in my life. However it will be interesting to see what AMD can do. From what I understand it's a refresh/upgrade of the Cayman XT core. Higher clock frequencies, more SP's ram etc. I haven't read anything saying it's a new architecture.
I haven't run an ATI card since my 9500 pro, but competition is good for both sides as it keeps prices down. Go AMD give Nvidia a swift kick in the nuts so it keeps kepler prices reasonable...
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I'm guessing that you pulled that from this page:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-HD-7000-GPU,14309.html
In that case, the claimed specs are trivially wrong. In particular:
"384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, memory clock slightly below 1 GHz, target bandwidth of 240~264 GB/s"
384-bit GDDR5 at 1 GHz is 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth. A lower clock speed would mean less bandwidth. It would also make no sense at all, as AMD uses 1 GHz for even their Redwood and Barts GPU chips that have more memory bandwidth than they can make good use of. That's the lowest bin of GDDR5 memory chips available, so going slower than that makes little sense unless either it's a power limitation (as in laptops) or your GDDR5 memory controller is a disaster. And it makes no sense at all if you're so desperate for more bandwidth that you need a 384-bit memory bus.
Another set of sliders, allegedly from AMD (being reported by a different site) seem to more or less corroborate the performance claims from Tom's Hardware, though it's hard to tell exactly, since they've only given tesselation performance (not exactly a great overall measure).
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/25278-hd-7970-up-to-60-percent-faster-than-gtx-580
At the resolution tested (2560x1600, not really a common one), the mean seems to be about 45% faster. Given the modest speed difference between the 580 and the 6970 (~15%, isn't it?), 60% - 70% faster than the 6970 is about what I'd expect.
http://videocardz.com/29950/amd-radeon-hd-7970-benchmarks-gaming-performance
They seem to really be showing cases where the 580 will stumble based on its 1.5GB of memory, such as multiple 30" monitor situations.
That said, some of it was pretty impressive to me.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/12/22/amd_radeon_hd_7970_video_card_review/
The link includes benchmarks of Eyefinity setups with the 7970 as well. Many sites reviews are now live, this is just one that I noticed had Eyefinity sections.
I just read Anandtech review. It's not exponentially faster but it is faster and a good deal cooler. I have high hopes for a fast and quiet 7750 & 7850.
If you have a 6970 there is no need for this card if you play games. But its nice that AMD brings again first 28nano on the market.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/
But you need a new gen 3 motherboard and cpu if you fully wanne enjoy this card.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
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