People are saying HD 7770 is GCN. Can't confirm about HD 78xx though.
AMD Radeon HD 7970 official review thread
max_snyper
Maximum Effort!!!!!!
GCN or not GCN if their top end card is performing this way then we can speculate that their mid high cards to perform quite well..!
rchi84
In the zone
From my understanding of reviews, the biggest thing to take out from this gen of cards is the fact that tessellation is no longer an nvidia dominated zone. Like cilus said, this levels the playing field for now, even in games like crysis 2 which had to resort to invisible tessellation to show the 6xxx series weakness.
The other thing is that this card is running on what I would consider to be an alpha driver. the performance will definitely improve over six months with new catalyst releases.
Third, these cards respond much better to ocing than the 6xxx series. I expect that by the time kepler launches, we will have a 7980 with 1.2 ghz launch speed as amd seems to have the headroom for it.
These used to be amd's weak areas and looks like they have worked on all of them. That leaves nvidia fans grumbling because they have to wait for the green team to show up to the party.
Pricing is a bit of a sore spot but amd needs to make money so they are justified in charging what they want in a scenario where they can stay ahead of an oced 580 comfortably.
My expectations from die shrinks is more realistic. I don't expect new gen tech to trounce previous gen dual card tech
those days are long gone.
As a consumer I can't wait for kepler to launch as this will mean amd will reduce the prices which would be a win win scenario.
Some of the reviewers are not able to hide their bias. Techradar seems to be the worst. They find it difficult to pat amd for doing something right for once lol.
You know, it's kind of funny no one mentions the 4870x2 anymore. If you look at toms gpu hierarchy, that card is right up there with the 570, 6970, 6950 in dx 10 games.
The other thing is that this card is running on what I would consider to be an alpha driver. the performance will definitely improve over six months with new catalyst releases.
Third, these cards respond much better to ocing than the 6xxx series. I expect that by the time kepler launches, we will have a 7980 with 1.2 ghz launch speed as amd seems to have the headroom for it.
These used to be amd's weak areas and looks like they have worked on all of them. That leaves nvidia fans grumbling because they have to wait for the green team to show up to the party.
Pricing is a bit of a sore spot but amd needs to make money so they are justified in charging what they want in a scenario where they can stay ahead of an oced 580 comfortably.
My expectations from die shrinks is more realistic. I don't expect new gen tech to trounce previous gen dual card tech
those days are long gone.As a consumer I can't wait for kepler to launch as this will mean amd will reduce the prices which would be a win win scenario.
Some of the reviewers are not able to hide their bias. Techradar seems to be the worst. They find it difficult to pat amd for doing something right for once lol.
You know, it's kind of funny no one mentions the 4870x2 anymore. If you look at toms gpu hierarchy, that card is right up there with the 570, 6970, 6950 in dx 10 games.
Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
Radeon HD 7970 CPU scaling performance review
Summary: any modern CPU (only quad cores and above tested) would do for a single card. Good to see those stuck with a Phenom II/Athlon II or get a BD early or sticking with the first gen i5 can upgrade their graphics card without bottlenecking the GPU as long as they game on and over 1080p (which majority of the gamers do).
AMD has a winner here for sure.
AMD has a winner here for sure.
7970 on 3rd party chips is a long way off. Let the cards hit even the US markets first lol.
The reviewed cards had gone straight from AMD to the reviewers.
AIB partners didnt send any GPUs yet.
The reviewed cards had gone straight from AMD to the reviewers.
AIB partners didnt send any GPUs yet.
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sukesh1090
Adam young
look at those performance numbers of oced 7970.they are above 590.its up to nvidia now.how it will answer with its kepler.but till that this 7970 gaint will rule the world for 6months.
Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
And by the time kepler comes, AMD can release a OCed (read 1GHz+) 7970 in the guise of 7980 or like.
i read this somewhere. dont remember the link.