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The asus 670 DC2 top will be available on newegg tomorrow. Be ready.
After seeing the max overclocked numbers over at TPU against the 7970 im having second thoughts
The asus 670 DC2 top will be available on newegg tomorrow. Be ready.
After seeing the max overclocked numbers over at TPU against the 7970 im having second thoughts
Never assume overclocking. Worst thing you can do.
Kinda weak numbers for my favorite game
At that resolution you need multiple cards for BF3. An Average of ~60fps is just barely cutting it IMO.
Also as has been noted in other threads, HardOCP uses faulty testing methodology and incredibly wacky graphs.
yeah he should do a clock for clock comparison of the gtx670 and gtx680. he will then see less than 5% difference in most cases as the cards are indeed bandwidth starved. once you get the memory speed up there you will see those extra cores start to scale much better.hehe, man I've heard it all when it comes to [h]. Display something positive about nv; great review, well done chap. Display something positive for AMD; flawed methods, bad review etc. lol
The 7970 is super fast if you put a big overclock on it and brings it to parity in the games it is slower than a 680 in and even faster in the games it is faster than the 680 in (Crysis, Metro) Even if you overclock the 680, as that review shows
It looks like the 670 is so much slower than th 680 and 7970 in that review because the memory couldn't clock over 6.4 Notice the 680 with 7ghz memory speeds keeping up with the 7970.
http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1336900308CAz2bNKppI_3_5.gif
Kyle claims in that review it is the extra CUDA cores in the 680 helping it, that will be some of it but, GK104 is hungry for memory bandwidth and the 670 is coming up short in that review because of that as well. Especially with him benching 2560x1600.
And you claim this or that to prove a point. It's not just because it's showing a good AMD card...I do own a 6950...
The problem is Hardocp thinks things are playable when they are not. 60fps average in BF3 is not that hot...not on MP.
And you claim this or that to prove a point. It's not just because it's showing a good AMD card...I do own a 6950...
The problem is Hardocp thinks things are playable when they are not. 60fps average in BF3 is not that hot...not on MP.
I'm not really arguing that point. For a MP FPS to be comfortable I never want to go below 60fps as a minimum personally.
Just saying that the 7970 is peforming as it is there because that is the reality of the cards performance, same can be said for the 680, 670. [h]'s benchmarks are fine and give good results.
Though I don't agree with his conclusion about the cuda cores being accountable for the large difference between the 670 and 680. It's the 670's poor clocking memory that is slowing it down and 1600P is likely making the memory speed more of a handicap than it would be at 1080P. imo.
I bit on the 680 DC2T model that popped up on Newegg a few hours ago. Hope I don't regret spending the extra $120 for 7% performance
I'm not really arguing that point. For a MP FPS to be comfortable I never want to go below 60fps as a minimum personally.
Just saying that the 7970 is peforming as it is there because that is the reality of the cards performance, same can be said for the 680, 670. [h]'s benchmarks are fine and give good results.
Though I don't agree with his conclusion about the cuda cores being accountable for the large difference between the 670 and 680. It's the 670's poor clocking memory that is slowing it down and 1600P is likely making the memory speed more of a handicap than it would be at 1080P. imo.