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The AMD Radeon HD 7970 doesn't introduce any new filtering methods but, like Cayman, does support EQAA, in addition to MLAA and the traditional standard & edge detect modes. Partially Resident Texture support can make for better hi-resolution images, as seen in AMD's Leo demo, made the by the creators of AMD's Toy Shop demo. Watching Leo at the AMD SI tech day was nothing short of jaw dropping. Sitting in the front row and watching a pre-rendered quality animation being real time rendered on three 60" HDTVs was an incredible experience. The demo uses tessellation and new indirect light methods processed by compute, as well as PRTs, to deliver a very high quality image. The Leo demo will be available sometime later, once the usual legal bumpf has been taken care of.
That's almost perfect 300% scaling!
Doing the math that's 2.986!!!!
It's actually ~260%, assuming linear scaling with clocks from 925 to 1100/1125. He was using the wrong card (stock), but so are you (1125 MHz instead of 1100)197.642 / 77.2 = 2.56 = 256% scaleing (out of a possible 300%) for 3 cards.
I don't have 3x6950, I have 1x6990+2x6950. Not every sample overclocks well, for example guru 3d only managed 1050/5800, I can overclock my cards by a similar amount.
Guru 3d managed 1050/5800 in their original review because that's where they stopped. In their follow up they got 1125 on the core of the same card. They stopped because they wanted to make sure they finished their review without frying the card.
Lol so it not only beats the performance of GTX 580 but the price too? Time to camp Newegg lol
197.642 / 77.2 = 2.56 = 256% scaleing (out of a possible 300%) for 3 cards.
still room for improvment in drivers.... that said... doesnt look too bad avg. 200+ fps with everything on in BF3.