another review
http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/657...est-met-22-gpus-testresultaten-wqhd-2560x1440
R9 390 nipping at the heels of 980. the venerable Tahiti aka R9 280X nipping at the heels of 780. :thumbsup:
Tahiti and Hawaii are clearly going to go down in GPU history as some of the best GPUs in terms of longevity behind 9700 Pro, 8800 GTX, GTX 580.
580 is automatically disqualified and I am surprised you included it. It's barely 1 year older than 7970 but over 5 years from December 2010->December 2015, how do they stack up?
9700Pro is famous for slaughtering GeForce 4 and most of 5 but its longevity was nothing special. 8800 GTX is good but that too never could play modern games a High/VH settings at 1080p for 4.5 years -- 7970 OC could. 7970 OC also kept up with 780/OG Titan (next gen NV high end cards) as more modern games came out. 9700 Pro got slaughtered by 6800GT, 8800GTX got destroyed by GTX 260 216/4870, and 580 got smoked by 7970/680/770. That means in that context 7970 also beats 9700 Pro, 8800GTX, and 580. Add in Bitcoin and Ethereum mining, FP64 support, almost never VRAM gimped over 4.5 years, and that makes 7970 the best card ever made in my eyes.
The reason 9700Pro and 8800GTX are so epic is how badly they beat their competition but their longevity comes nowhere close to 7970s. Granted, games and hardware advanced far faster back then so it's a bit unfair to those older cards.
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Great to see Ubisoft going out of its way to add 4K textures to largely console ported game. I like to see more effort being put into AAA games vs. say Dark Souls 3 or Quantum Break which are 99% identical to console versions in terms of IQ.
For next gen, 8GB should start to become mainstream as more gamers upgrade to Polaris 10/GP104 1060Ti/1070.