AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

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Jacky60

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Oh Lord time to fleabay the 5970/5870 tri-fire. Will 3 x 6970 give me 30% more performance I wonder? OR do I wait for the 6990? Roll on midnight or tomorrow am. For the record here in UK most 570's are £300 and 580's £400 vs £300 for the 6970 and £225-£250 for the 6950. I really hope the catalyst 10.12 bring even more performance to the 6970.
 
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Silverforce11

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The drivers on the retail cd is very old (i guess its expected since these retail boxes were sitting in warehouses for ages, driver cd production would have been in early september). 10.11 which is actually really bad for the 6xxx series. 10.10e isnt horrible as 10.11 (which is older .. weird)
 
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borisvodofsky

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formulav8 said:
Am I overlooking some numbers or something? The 580 seems to be just as fast as the 6970?

Crossfire scaling is very good. nVidia will hurt more in that they have a huge die to compete with AMD's smaller die when it comes to a price war. But will have to wait for a full review to see what the real die size is for cayman I guess.
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The trouble is in PERFORMANCE vs PRICE.. not raw performance.. Life ain't so simple people... :D:D:D:D

I will be buying $sub 200 6870,, whos wit me.. hahaha :D:D:D Wh00000t
 
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Udgnim

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look forward to more reviews, but based off the Russian site, the 69XX looks to be pretty good price / performance wise
 
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ShadowOfMyself

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As expected they really shine at 2560x1600... In a few ocassions the 6970 takes the overall lead

This kinda reminds me of 1800 vs 1900... Huge difference if the games can take advantage of the new architecture, but when they dont, the card is barely faster than the 5870
 
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Arkadrel

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Why did those russians bother with all those tests if theyre gonna use old drivers that might have HUGE performance effects on the benchmarks.

There was a heaven 2.1 benched with the old vs newest drivers and the differnce was like 30%!
Tests with old drivers should not even be in this thread.
 
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lavaheadache

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Arkadrel said:
Why did those russians bother with all those tests if theyre gonna use old drivers that might have HUGE performance effects on the benchmarks.

There was a heaven 2.1 benched with the old vs newest drivers and the differnce was like 30%!
Tests with old drivers should not even be in this thread.
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if you go back and look at that thread again, the one with the newer drivers was also at 1920x1080 vs1920x1200 on the first one
 
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tincart

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Arkadrel said:
Why did those russians bother with all those tests if theyre gonna use old drivers that might have HUGE performance effects on the benchmarks.

There was a heaven 2.1 benched with the old vs newest drivers and the differnce was like 30%!
Tests with old drivers should not even be in this thread.
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There is no indication that the "new drivers" are real. The only place that driver version shows up is on that one image. I am skeptical.
 
bryanW1995

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ShadowOfMyself said:
As expected they really shine at 2560x1600... In a few ocassions the 6970 takes the overall lead

This kinda reminds me of 1800 vs 1900... Huge difference if the games can take advantage of the new architecture, but when they dont, the card is barely faster than the 5870
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I think you have it backwards. this time, game that really took advantage of that 5th shader won't see much of a bump from the 6970, while games that weren't as "amd optimized" should see much larger improvements.
 
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badb0y

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Wreckage said:
Translated the conclusion



If this is indeed AMD's new architecture, then this is what they are going to have to fight Kepler with.
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Remember that peice of crap we called HD 2900? That same architecture evolved into HD 5000 series. Not too shabby wouldn't you say.
 
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Phanuel

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badb0y said:
Remember that peice of crap we called HD 2900? That same architecture evolved into HD 5000 series. Not too shabby wouldn't you say.
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And that's where you'd be wrong...

He already finds it pretty shabby if you've read all of the hemming and hawing and contorting release timeframes from 280 to 480 to match something to the 5000s that beat them from nVidia's side.
 
OILFIELDTRASH

OILFIELDTRASH

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I'll just wait for the anandtech review. I don't see how you guys sift through that garbage. I'll go to bed, wake up and have a little something to read over breakfast.:)
 
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SickBeast

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tviceman said:
59.1 for a stock gtx580 vs. 52.2 for a stock hd6970 and 49.0 for an hd6950 at the same settings in Unigine? I don't think Nvidia is in trouble; it more or less looks like customers are going to have lots and lots of price points in which they can choose from to purchase a graphics cards.
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Where are you seeing the GTX 580 score 59.1 in Uniengine? I'm seeing it score 43.3 at 1920x1200 here:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/nvidia_gtx_580/6.html

I guess we'll have to wait and see. The 6950 looks really good to me thus far.
 
SolMiester

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TBH, AMD has really lifted their game in the past 18 mths and their isnt much between the 2 companies anymore....AMD has fixed their XF issues and has managed to produce a GPU as powerful as nVidia at a much lower transistor count.

Now if only they could make the CPU more competitive!
 
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