AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

[dookulooku]

^

I'm inclined to believe this is fake. First, the image isn't clean at all, it looks like it's been altered. It looks like the text has been pasted over another image.

Second of all, the Crysis Warhead scores for the GTX 570 are way off, often 20% or more below typical scores for those settings. It's possible that they are using a really stressful test, though.

 

[amenx]

I didnt know vsync did that... 😵
vsync on actually lowers a cards TPD?

VSync can also lower temps.

 

[sagrada]

3dMark11 is not representative of real world gaming, and quoting kitguru quoting Fudzilla is like dividing by 0

Hopefully for AMD it beats the 580, because right now at the egg they only have one brand in stock. Those things are selling well I guess. Not much time left to get them holiday $$$. Looking forward to the reviews tomorrow.

I think they usually go by 12:00AM PST?

Apparently they have supply issues, so it's not just selling well (how many $500 cards sell "well" anyways) - there just arent enough cards period.

I'm inclined to believe this is fake. First, the image isn't clean at all, it looks like it's been altered. It looks like the text has been pasted over another image.

Second of all, the Crysis Warhead scores for the GTX 570 are way off, often 20% or more below typical scores for those settings. It's possible that they are using a really stressful test, though.

It was compiled by neliz, but the settings are pretty stressful - look at the resolution / AA

 

[dookulooku]

It was compiled by neliz, but the settings are pretty stressful - look at the resolution / AA

I said the scores were low, even for those settings.

What I meant by a stressful test was that they used a custom timedemo with a ton of things going on. Not the resolution/AA settings.

 

[Idontcare]

3dMark11 is not representative of real world gaming, and quoting kitguru quoting Fudzilla is like dividing by 0

+1 rep points for invoking L'Hôpital's rule and succinctly capturing the situation :thumbsup:

 

[buckshot24]

I love new video card release time!

 

[MentalIlness]

I love new video card release time!

Yep, all the cockroaches...Ooops, I mean fanbois come out of the woodwork to play defense. 🙂

 

[Idontcare]

Yep, all the cockroaches...Ooops, I mean fanbois come out of the woodwork to play defense. 🙂

Is this really necessary?

 

[Triggaaar]

And this is the latest pricing from Gibbo at OCUK:

Where are those prices from? Overclockers uk doesn't have anything up for the 69xx series.

 

[Lonyo]

Never heard of KitGuru but they're already low on my list for linking to a Fud article. Their 'source' is nothing more than the German benchmarks posted last weekend.

Kitguru informed us that NV was dropping CUDA on the GTX465
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2076109&highlight=kitguru

That the GTX470 was being EOL'd in order to make a dual GPU card
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2076128&highlight=kitguru

Amongst other gems.

 

[betasub]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

 

[Silverforce11]

A lot of people doubted whether ATI can pull it off, thinking they had yield issues and whatever. Stocks are fine.

 

[Attic]

Nice picture!

Excited to see reviews and some discussion about how the card stacks up. It's overdue IMO.

 

[Lonyo]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

That's almost certainly rather a lot more HD6970's than they have GTX580s in stock.
They do have at least 50 GTX570s in stock though.

 

[CitanUzuki]

3dMark11 is not representative of real world gaming, and quoting kitguru quoting Fudzilla is like dividing by 0

Bwhahahahha! Nice.

 

[flopper]

That's almost certainly rather a lot more HD6970's than they have GTX580s in stock.
They do have at least 50 GTX570s in stock though.

they sold 300 580.
more on order but not many cards to sell.

6900 series however is full house 😉

 

[Arkadrel]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

I counted that to 162 cards (163 if you count the unboxed blue one at 3rd top row), just doing it in my head without marking cards or anything.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Where are those prices from? Overclockers uk doesn't have anything up for the 69xx series.

most likely the OcUK forums. Don't forget that the price rises in January are at least partly down to our VAT rates going from 17.5% to 20% 🙁

Edit: linky

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217697

Double Edit: From the thread

Thats just 6970's and only 1/3rd of what we have in stock for launch.

For those thinking 6950, well I have nearly 1000pc of those in stock ready for launch as well.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

About 150 cards, nice layout and interesting touch with the burger.

 

[nanaki333]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

now make a video of a guy in a koolaide costume bust through it! OH YEAH!

 

[Zargon]

About 150 cards, nice layout and interesting touch with the burger.

I'm going out on a limb to say, MERITLINE!!!

 

[MangoX]

Plenty of HIS cards ready for launch at OcUK:

Very, very lovely :twisted:

 

[Wreckage]

A lot of people doubted whether ATI can pull it off, thinking they had yield issues and whatever. Stocks are fine.

http://www.amdzone.com/joomla/index...until-december&catid=52:video-cards&Itemid=85

The doubt starts here.

AMD's upcoming video cards, code-named Cayman, have been delayed about three weeks. The Radeon 6970 and 6950 video cards were originally supposed to be available sometime in November; however, Advanced Micro Devices will launch the cards during the week of December 13th. While this delay might hurt holiday sales, AMD is tight lipped as to its reasoning.

 

[heflys]

Good to see that stock seems to be high. Hopefully it stays that way.

 

[Firestorm007]

http://www.amdzone.com/joomla/index...until-december&catid=52:video-cards&Itemid=85

The doubt starts here.

Go back and read the date on that article. It reads Monday, November 15th. Fail!