AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

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Arkadrel

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...driver version 10.11 ... not the review drivers. (russians out for webpage hits)

People that dont have drivers ment for reviewers and are useing 1month+ old drivers that arnt optimised for the 69xx cards.... shouldnt leak benchmarks lmao. And they shouldnt be in this thread with links to them... dont we want the real reviews?

*shakes head*

looking forward to a more trustworthy reviewer's review, someone that atleast has the right drivers for the card.
 
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jamey0824

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Any site using 10.11 drivers shall earn a spot on my blacklist. I mean there really is no excuse drivers were out a few days ago.
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Dark Shroud

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Yeah I'm waiting for Anandtech & [H] reviews. I want a HD 6970 but I don't want a price higher than $350 or it will be a HD 6950 for me.

I'm wondering how much a HD 6990 is going to cost.
 
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Arkadrel

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@Jamey0824,

Real reviewers got newer optimised drivers, along with their cards.

People that work in stores, and opened the box and used the CDs drivers are useing 1month+ old drivers that arnt really optimised at all for the 69xx. That russian site review, on the first page is useing those drivers. So gotta take those results with a grain of salt.
 
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rgallant

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BFG10K said:
That BIOS switch is fascinating. They must have quite a few RMAs from failed flashes to bother implementing such a thing.
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-maybe amd thinks the new chip design might need a bios update along with new drivers - down the road.

-just like the mother boards bios updates to correct issues .
 
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Aristotelian said:
What does this mean? I didn't know AMD had their own retailing outlets.
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I meant the people there, not that it's an outlet. They have been the source of a lot of propaganda lately. Just my opinion of course.

Either way I look forward to real reviews and such.
 
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cusideabelincoln

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rgallant said:
-maybe amd thinks the new chip design might need a bios update along with new drivers - down the road.

-just like the mother boards bios updates to correct issues .
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Not quite the same scenariou as a motherboard because motherboards support many different combination of components and are made to support things that aren't even released yet. A video card BIOS just has to deal with a limited set of hardware combinations: The reference design and then other designs AIBs will use, most likely for overclocking.
 
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BFG10K said:
That BIOS switch is fascinating. They must have quite a few RMAs from failed flashes to bother implementing such a thing.
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maybe we'll see both camps offering them in the future. definitely makes oc'ing much easier.

edit: dagnabbit! ninja'd again!
 
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nitromullet

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bryanW1995 said:
maybe we'll see both camps offering them in the future. definitely makes oc'ing much easier.
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If it proves to be well received and useful, I could see it becoming the norm for high end cards to have a dual BIOS feature. Good idea IMO.
 
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Udgnim

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[H]'s post

AMD is launching its new Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950. These two GPUs round out AMD’s high-end Radeon HD 6000 family of single-GPU video cards. Priced surprisingly low for the performance, these two cards are ready to to deliver solid value in the high end market place. Spending your holiday cash wisely, just got easy.

THIS REVIEW WILL BE PUBLISHED AT 12:01 PST.
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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1569165
 
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ShadowOfMyself

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If you are worried about prices going up, buy them before that happens... They sure arent lacking stock

This seems to be very similar to the 48xx launch anyway, incredible value for the performance... Nvidia fans should also be happy since there have to be huge price cuts coming
 
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waffleironhead said:
Its economics. Supply and demand.
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Except GTX460 768mb/ 1GB cards are selling like hot cakes and yet their prices have fallen. AMD has pulled this crap with HD5750/5770/5850/5870/5970/6850/6870. There is a good chance even if they have ample supply, they will raise the prices of 6950/70. We'll see.
 
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RussianSensation said:
Except GTX460 768mb/ 1GB cards are selling like hot cakes and yet their prices have fallen. AMD has pulled this crap with HD5750/5770/5850/5870/5970/6850/6870. There is a good chance even if they have ample supply, they will raise the prices of 6950/70. We'll see.
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I think the 460 prices droping is nvidia trying to gain market share. Its a win/win for us all in the price/performance area.
I agree, we will have to wait and see how the how well they actually perform and sell.
One thing can be almost guaranteed though. Newegg will be selling them at above retail and people will be crying about "price gouging".
 
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Arkadrel said:
...driver version 10.11 ... not the review drivers. (russians out for webpage hits)

People that dont have drivers ment for reviewers and are useing 1month+ old drivers that arnt optimised for the 69xx cards.... shouldnt leak benchmarks lmao. And they shouldnt be in this thread with links to them... dont we want the real reviews?

*shakes head*

looking forward to a more trustworthy reviewer's review, someone that atleast has the right drivers for the card.
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Man just a few hours left. Don't worry about what drivers they used . Tomorrow is another day than we can have the 6990 topic and it goes around again, I thought this was a rather successful hype campaign. Look at it like this If the price is right who is to say how this ends up . AMD seems to have alot of 6970 for sale. But if I were to guess the 6950 in Xfire could be the big deal .
 
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waffleironhead said:
I think the 460 prices droping is nvidia trying to gain market share. Its a win/win for us all in the price/performance area.
I agree, we will have to wait and see how the how well they actually perform and sell.
One thing can be almost guaranteed though. Newegg will be selling them at above retail and people will be crying about "price gouging".
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Retail price gouging is a whole other story. Taking advantage of supply/demand is sort of expected from retailers.

According to overclockers.co.uk there is a planned price increase in Jan from AMD, and this is known before any reviews or sales figures... If they know they can sell for higher, why don't they? The only reason I can think is to get reviewers to review the card based on an artificially low MSRP.
 
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