SolMiester
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- Dec 19, 2004
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I bought my first 7950 in April of last year...haven't had any issues with it since then. Which single card issues are you referring to?
LOL, are you serious?
I bought my first 7950 in April of last year...haven't had any issues with it since then. Which single card issues are you referring to?
LOL, are you serious?
LOL, are you serious?
I'd wonder the same.
When have you used an AMD card again with all the "expertise" of yours that everyone must be having issues with them?
Just want to point out that the first was out of stock when I was purchasing my Haswell system, and now the second one (that I ordered) is now on backorder -_-
Unfortunately, AMD still doesn't have a good top-end offering or a good mGPU solution.
I just got a second 7950 to xfire as a stop-gap solution to get to 120 FPS without having to shell out for a 780 or 690... and so far I'm still trying to figure out what everything is doing. And 40 FPS on xfire is a non-stop stutterfest. It's reasons like this that make the 780 look more and more appealing ($650 vs $500-600 for 2x 7950, but at least I don't have to fiddle with it)
I'd wonder the same.
When have you used an AMD card again with all the "expertise" of yours that everyone must be having issues with them?
The AMD drivers for my 2900, 4870, and 5870 were absolutely flawless for me. And I really mean flawless. For the games I played, the things I did, I never once had a hint of a problem. I'll be the first to admit my driver experience with the 7970 has been a little different, there have been quirks here and there that I've found and dealt with. Nothing that ever even approached more than an annoying minor problem, but definitely not perfect. But the last few releases I've used have been trouble free to this point.
LOL, are you serious?
They are flying of the shelf at newegg. I order my EVGA ACX yestoday as soon as I got the in stock notification. For people that haven't upgraded in a few years price don't really matter. It's just Galaxy and Zotac that no one want to touch for some reason.
LOL, are you serious?
Did you even read the post?....NV is miles ahead of AMD when it comes to releasing products...WTF are you talking about high end cards for?...Im talking about drivers, software, OOB experience, marketing and product delivery. All of which AMD is a runner up in!
GTX680 was also a luck-luster improvement over 580. I'm talking about high-end cards because you picked on 7970 for delivering little improvement over previous generation.
Yeah, NV is miles ahead in product delivery, AMD had the whole line-up released when NV released GTX680, the same holds true for AMD's 5series and NV's 4series, NV is always late to adopt a new process node, in the past they at least brought great performance improvements but now it took them 1.5 year to bring a high-end card to the market. Also I couldn't care less about marketing. You specifically picked on 7970 and its drivers and then backtracked that you were talking about other things. If someone was expecting mature drivers for a whole new architecture like GCN over previous VLIW 5/4 then he was clearly delusional. When NV released 8800GTX they also had many issues with the drivers especially in Vista. It'd say it was worse then 7970.
its driver development has been and still is poor, that cant be argued, and I LOL at all the deniers...whatever, its no skin off my nose.