I think the 7950 is going to be ~10% faster overall than the 580. I can't see it being more than about 15% slower than the 7970. The 7870 should fall in close to 580 performance.
I plan on thoroughly abusing my F5 key come the night of the 8th .
Extremely impressive numbers so far in this poll, 33 people buying a 7970 in a few days. Wow, hopefully they have better stock quantities than they did at the 5870 launch, because demand looks very high for this card.
The numbers actually surprise me that more people aren't buying one. I thought they'd be reversed
I don't think it'll be a midnight release
When do you think they will be available then?
I never understood the big fuss about unlocking Radeon 6950 cards. It's a paltry 3-5% gain in performance, it's so small it's imperceptible.
No, doesn't even touch my 6950x2, which are going to be cheaper then a single 7970
Do you literally mean just unlocking the shaders and not upping the clocks on core/mem? A 6950 is just a manufacturer-gimped 6970 so upping the clocks is second nature. Upping voltage is optional (but recommended for anything higher than ~880 core imo). Furmark shows a stock 6950 at 88fps and a shader-unlocked 6950 @ 6970 clocks is pumping out 115fps. That's a wee bit more than 3-5%, more like 31%.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159
No thanks. It barely beats the 580 in the game I am spending most of my time playing. (BF3)
It barely beats a gtx580 when the person running the benchmark is catering to nvidia cards by running MSAA.
When MSAA is off it's a different story, and I'm sure you're thinking that MSAA improves image quality so it should be on. The thing is that MSAA is useless in games that use deferred rendering and FXAA/MLAA are much better options for removing jagged edges.
Also expect driver maturity to change how the 7970 performs in bf3 and other games.
It barely beats a gtx580 when the person running the benchmark is catering to nvidia cards by running MSAA.
When MSAA is off it's a different story, and I'm sure you're thinking that MSAA improves image quality so it should be on. The thing is that MSAA is useless in games that use deferred rendering and FXAA/MLAA are much better options for removing jagged edges.
Also expect driver maturity to change how the 7970 performs in bf3 and other games.
No thanks. It barely beats the 580 in the game I am spending most of my time playing. (BF3)
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