Does AMD get thrashed in BF3/civ V because of a lack of multithreaded rendering?

[Maximilian]

I remember reading AMD dosent support it and those are two heavily threaded games.

 

[3DVagabond]

Define "thrashed"? Seems fine to me. Latest drivers have helped. 😉

 

[Grooveriding]

AFAIK Battlefield 3 doesn't use multithreaded DX11 rendering, just Civ 5.

Seems Civ 5 is fine as well though. No thrashing to be seen, same or faster.

 

[Maximilian]

I was looking at the AT bench:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/550?vs=598

Maybe its out of date now.

 

[3DVagabond]

Yeah, 7970 release drivers were nothing to write home about.

 

[RussianSensation]

I was looking at the AT bench:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/550?vs=598

Maybe its out of date now.

You are also comparing a stock 7950 vs. the 670. 670 is a much faster card than a stock 7950 to begin with. Add older drivers in that bench and it's a blow-out. Without overclocking, the 670 is a much better card than an 800mhz 7950.

Xbitlabs just posted a review today. Latest drivers changed everything for HD7970 series:

 

[Spjut]

AFAIK Battlefield 3 doesn't use multithreaded DX11 rendering, just Civ 5.


Seems Civ 5 is fine as well though. No thrashing to be seen, same or faster.

Yeah, Repi confirmed that DX11 multithreaded rendering isn't used in BF3. In its current state, it apparently wasn't good for their use case

 

[Maximilian]

You are also comparing a stock 7950 vs. the 670. 670 is a much faster card than a stock 7950 to begin with. Add older drivers in that bench and it's a blow-out. Without overclocking, the 670 is a much better card than an 800mhz 7950.

Xbitlabs just posted a review today. Latest drivers changed everything for HD7970 series:

Wow... pretty decent. Makes me want to look into a low price 7950 now, ill probably just stick with the 5850 though, i just have upgrade itch is all :\

 

[Silverforce11]

Wow... pretty decent. Makes me want to look into a low price 7950 now, ill probably just stick with the 5850 though, i just have upgrade itch is all :\

Go for it man.. its cheap, and grab a MSI TF3 7950 or Powercolor PCS+, both are excellent overclockers, and priced great.

A few minutes download, install and test OC, you have yourself a gtx680 and 7970 GE killer for ~$300. It even uses much less power than the 7970 as well, why bother paying more for the top tier.