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[ChalybsUmbra]

I just ordered a laptop with the 7970M from xoticpc. It's nothing like the desktop version, but ATI won themselves an Nvidia fan this round. The more competition the better; it keeps things improving and reasonably priced.

[Vulpesveritas]

Aniquilator6, on 10 June 2012 - 12:01 AM, said:

Trinity's improvements on the IPC front is good news regarding Vishera.

If priced right and with an enough performance bump over Bulldozer, it just might become competitive on the price/performance segment.
Adding this to the amount of AM3+ users that bought a Phenom II (which is a very capable CPU as well) waiting for a Bulldozer CPU and Vishera just might have a chance to shine and recover some ground for AMD.
Let's just hope it doesn't come out too close to Intel's Haswell or it will have a harder time.

On-Topic - This new HD7970 v2 looks like what AMD should have launched in the first place to hold the performance crown longer. Still, it the HD7970 v1 had no competition when launched so it's understandable.

Cheers

That and AMD is doing a different binning idea here; v2 are going to be top - binned chips like the Nvidia GTX 680, and V1 are any and all chips at this time instead of select chips. The 680 are all top bins of the GK104 line, which is the main reason why they're so low in stock. AMD cares more about sales and less about a benchmark so long as they can keep selling their product, which is superior to the 680 in non-gaming tasks as it is, and is basically just as fast in gaming. A binned chip will push it past that point in all likelyhood.

[Meldarth Sunphot]

TriggerhappySOB, on 08 June 2012 - 06:11 PM, said:

But this is the question...

Will it blend?

On a serious note though - Ive been using AMD for all of my builds until the last one where I decided to go with an intel/nvidia combo instead of amd/ati... and to be perfectly honest ive had fewer problems with nvidia than amd. Maybe i just got the bad chips, but they never lasted longer than a year with proper PM and care.
On the opposite end of the spectrum... Price of AMD is WAAAYYYY better than intel or nvidia...

I'm a system builder - I've had issues with them both for years.........Nvidia makes solid cards but shady business practices; ATI/AMD drivers for a long time were crap.......Now AMD running the show I haven't seen any major issue from the drivers - unlike Nvidia that's released a couple card killing drivers....

both have plus and minus - big plus is eyeinfinity on one card.......once you run it......you'll never ever go back to single monitor again

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FACEman Peck, on 08 June 2012 - 06:49 PM, said:

Something related to this, I find it odd that dual GTX 680's are more powerful graphics-wise than the GTX 690, which has dual 680 GPUs in it already...

I hope someone can explain this to me.

PCI-E standard is 300 watts - they needed to stay under that; so downclocking - and creative playing with wattage - cause the way Nvidia actually says their total watts usage and what it really is.........is interesting needless to say......

Same reason 6990 from AMD came with the ausom switch........don't touch it; it was hair under 300 watts......flip it and blew past it for overclocking.....