"Review" is a joke and this coming from someone that has bought Nvidia for the last 2 generations.
Just the way it's done boggles the mind that someone would even try to pass this off as anything but BS.
1. HAWX 2, the outcome is obvious before it's even benched. It's a NVIDIA game AND an outlier. It is not representative of average performance between 2 cards. It's like comparing a minivan with a Ferrari n a situation where you have to transport 7 people as quickly as possible from A to B in heavy traffic, basically completely invalid as a speed test except for that exact rare situation. Lost Planet 2 and Dirt 2 are not much better, though Dirt 2 isn't as bad as the others.
2. Crysis Bench at 1680x1050 is again cherry picked. Crysis is great at being pretty brand neutral, but then the settings were tuned to negate the 6970's advantages like using higher AA or resolutions which would be much more realistic. Someone spending $370 or even $250 on a high end video card is not going to be playing it on a $110 pos monitor and even if they did, wouldn't be doing so on such low settings.
3. Basically stock v.s. heavily OC'ed, really? The original linked post reported that these were max clocks able to be achieved on that particular card including overvolting from 0.975 to 1.137 and turning the fan to permanent 100% A similar conclusion would be reached comparing a 560 to a 570 in a situation like this.
4. Ignored posting AMD positive results like Metro 2033, 3DMark Vantage/11, Stalker, Call of Juarez, etc
Basically the OP is harmful to Nvidia more than ATI in that it shows the OP is spreading pure FUD. It is right that people in both camps should be offended by these skewed "benchmarks" that try to pain AMD in a negative light and also give off the whiff of desperation that NVIDIA fanboys cant play fair. The fact of the matter is, bot camps make great products and there is no need to pull stunts like this. For shame, truly.
This thread insults the intelligence of everyone involved.
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mwmorph said:
Basically the OP is harmful to Nvidia more than ATI in that it shows the OP is spreading pure FUD. ...
For shame, truly.
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