***AMD Radeon HD7970 GHZ Edition - Official Reviews Thread***

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lavaheadache

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AIB are going use whatever cooler they feel fit. I'm sure some are going to use the reference cooler used on the 7970 and I'm sure other companies will not
 
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master_shake_

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Skurge said:
The posters in this forum. When the 480 came out, power use didn't matter. Compute did and DX11 performance did when there like DX11 games out. Now the 7970GE is the fastest thing out power use is really important and high ress, high AA is irrelevent now. So is compute. Even though games are using it now. at leaset talk of physx has all but died out.

People with 4.5ghz+ CPUs and 3+ GPUs are talking about how a 7970 uses tons of power.

Yeah AMD is the joke here.
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Mob mentality, Nvidia tells people that efficiency matters, and compute is useless for anything, they listen then regurgitate it everytime they get a chance.

its like denial, so they plug there ears and type away.
 
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AMD's new CEO showing he really is out of touch with the market.
I'd like to of seen a better reference cooler introduced and cards binned for lower power consumption and higher clocks.
Instead they just up the clocks and add a bogus boost which no one even cares for even with Nvidia cards.
To add insult to injury the price is now back up to $500. :\
Guess I'm not their target anyways. I returned my 670 and bought a dirt cheap gtx 460. To heck with this Gens pricing/performance. I'm all in on gtx 670 performance for $200 like it should have been.
 
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Riek

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ShintaiDK said:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/club-3d-first-with-radeon-hd-7970-ghz-edition/16400.html

First GE out. Reference cooler.
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Thats probably the original reference cooler of the 7970 though.
 
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lavaheadache

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OILFIELDTRASH said:
AMD's new CEO showing he really is out of touch with the market.
I'd like to of seen a better reference cooler introduced and cards binned for lower power consumption and higher clocks.
Instead they just up the clocks and add a bogus boost which no one even cares for even with Nvidia cards.
To add insult to injury the price is now back up to $500. :\
Guess I'm not their target anyways. I returned my 670 and bought a dirt cheap gtx 460. To heck with this Gens pricing/performance. I'm all in on gtx 670 performance for $200 like it should have been.
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lol, can't say I disagree with you entirely
 
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OILFIELDTRASH said:
AMD's new CEO showing he really is out of touch with the market.
I'd like to of seen a better reference cooler introduced and cards binned for lower power consumption and higher clocks.
Instead they just up the clocks and add a bogus boost which no one even cares for even with Nvidia cards.
To add insult to injury the price is now back up to $500. :\
Guess I'm not their target anyways. I returned my 670 and bought a dirt cheap gtx 460. To heck with this Gens pricing/performance. I'm all in on gtx 670 performance for $200 like it should have been.
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I care about GPU boost and find it very innovative -- to enable more performance while still staying below a TDP threshold and still have nice thermals and acoustics.

Also like that AMD is trying to offer more innovation here as well.
 
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BallaTheFeared

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Skurge said:
The posters in this forum. When the 480 came out, power use didn't matter. Compute did and DX11 performance did when there like DX11 games out. Now the 7970GE is the fastest thing out power use is really important and high ress, high AA is irrelevent now. So is compute. Even though games are using it now. at leaset talk of physx has all but died out.

People with 4.5ghz+ CPUs and 3+ GPUs are talking about how a 7970 uses tons of power.

Yeah AMD is the joke here.
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480 is considerably faster than the 5870 right now, in the titles people talk about like BF3, BMAC there is a huge performance difference between the two.

As far as compute goes Nvidia actually had support in place for many software titles people were using, AMD clearly does not. It's still the best option there due to software reliance, though at least AMD now has capable hardware. If only they didn't have such a woeful history on the software side.

PhysX provides IQ that AMD simply can't compete with, after a point fps stop mattering because they're so far past what you can actually see with your large 60Hz monitor that "faster' isn't actually faster, and higher IQ provided is all that really matters. BM:AC is a perfect example where Nv provides a far better end user experience as well as far higher visual fidelity. It's a far better option to increase IQ than ever increasing amounts of AA past 4x.


My i5 runs at 5.4GHz for gaming, and my three cards are worlds faster than a single 7970 while being similarly priced with water.


Indeed they are, have you seen their "gpu boost" lol gawd, it's awful how far behind the curve AMD is.
 
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BallaTheFeared said:
480 is considerably faster than the 5870 right now, in the titles people talk about like BF3, BMAC there is a huge performance difference between the two.

As far as compute goes Nvidia actually had support in place for many software titles people were using, AMD clearly does not. It's still the best option there due to software reliance, though at least AMD now has capable hardware. If only they didn't have such a woeful history on the software side.

PhysX provides IQ that AMD simply can't compete with, after a point fps stop mattering because they're so far past what you can actually see with your large 60Hz monitor that "faster' isn't actually faster, and higher IQ provided is all that really matters. BM:AC is a perfect example where Nv provides a far better end user experience as well as far higher visual fidelity. It's a far better option to increase IQ than ever increasing amounts of AA past 4x.


My i5 runs at 5.4GHz for gaming, and my three cards are worlds faster than a single 7970 while being similarly priced with water.


Indeed they are, have you seen their "gpu boost" lol gawd, it's awful how far behind the curve AMD is.
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butthurt much?
LOL... i thought that you were just trolling, now i see you are a fanboy
 
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SirPauly said:
I care about GPU boost and find it very innovative -- to enable more performance while still staying below a TDP threshold and still have nice thermals and acoustics.

Also like that AMD is trying to offer more innovation here as well.
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Do you leave on turbo when you overclock your CPU?
 
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ShintaiDK

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Remember AMDs (de)boost works the other way. 1050Mhz default, 1000Mhz when too high load.
 
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Rvenger

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BallaTheFeared said:
In power usage and noise creation, hells yes.


It's like a Harley vs Ninja, one is loud, obnoxious, and hot, while the other is sleek, fast, and efficient.


Hey hey, people still buy overpriced Harleys too.
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Don't worry Balla, the 680 is still fast enough. :sneaky:
 
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master_shake_

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BallaTheFeared said:
In power usage and noise creation, hells yes.


It's like a Harley vs Ninja, one is loud, obnoxious, and hot, while the other is sleek, fast, and efficient.


Hey hey, people still buy overpriced Harleys too.
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so like you, couldn't anyone put a water block on a hot inefficient card??

cause i bet those 470's you own were nice and toasty with just the stock cooler.
 
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Why are rabid fanboys allowed to thread crap without consequences? Oh, probably for the same reason a focus group member is allowed to be a mod... Forgot this is AT here
 
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BallaTheFeared

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Don Karnage said:
No one cares about Dirt 2.
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lol :sneaky:


More people care about D3 than anything...

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Pretty petty these "arguments" people have, reduced to calling people fanboys/thread crappers/trolls just because they point out a couple negative aspects of a company designed to exploit end users for maximum profits.

master_shake_ said:
i'm not totally sure what i am supposed to see here

76 degrees on an open air bench custom fan profile and there is only one card?
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It's not about what you can see, it's about what you can or can't hear. You could probably get a 7970 to run pretty quite with a custom fan profile, but you'd still have to listen to the coil whine.
 
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master_shake_

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BallaTheFeared said:
It's not about what you can see, it's about what you can or can't hear. You could probably get a 7970 to run pretty quite with a custom fan profile, but you'd still have to listen to the coil whine.
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really coil whine??

i have 2 reference gigabyte hd 7970's from launch and there is ZERO coil whine.

i had more whine from the EVGA 480 i bought.
 
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BallaTheFeared

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Really? Cause I have 16 7970s and they all have coil whine even at desktop, where they stutter from MS and I get low fps in aero with screen tearing too!

Crazy how we could have two different experiences!
 
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