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6970 performance just below GTX 580 Quote:
ATI Radeon HD 6970 "Cayman" to Provide Significant Performance Boost - Graphics Cards Maker - X-bit labs News: AMD Radeon HD 6900 - Powercolor verrät die vermutliche Leistung | Grafikkarten | News | Hardware | GameStar.de PowerColor ile Radeon HD 6900 serisinin performans |
Sorry, but if there's no benchmarks, it's just FUD. That's pure speculation based on what one PR person said. |
There is a reason this is in the rumors section. You don't usually hear PR people underestimate things. If anything I'd expect the 6970 to be slower than what she said. |
what i want to know is the final specs with regard to shader numbers. there you can draw conclusions with a quick calculation..or two... how? well, its not that straight forward, but compare 6850 to 6870 at same clock speeds, and see what the difference the extra juice under the hood makes under a certain scenario. if that guy says 30% better than 6870, i guess add 30% to the underhood, thus...hmmm...1456 shaders? doesnt seem enough for a high end card...lets try 50% ..1680? more like it. im expecting anywhere around the 1600 shader mark. or more. |
No point getting too excited over the PR stuff. Like SugarJ says, until we see some proper benchmarks we'll never know. I dunno why AMD had to go and Screw up their numbering system again though.... In what universe does logic dictate that a 6870 should perform worse than a 5870, 5970 be dual chip but 6970 be single and 6990 be dual etc.etc.etc. I've had better luck with ATI cards than Nvidia for Longevity and can't believe how power hungry the higher 4XX cards are, but am getting bored with weird naming schemes and endless driver updates. |
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yup, that's why i like clock for clock comparisons :) |
Believe me if AMD where to make a card as powerful as the 580 it would use just as much power. It takes a lot of juice to put out as many frames as possible. |
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^^^ C'mon guy lets not turn this into a "King of the Hill" - Red vs Green Flame War.....in all fairness Iphakrateous the 5970 is more on par with the 480 / 580 and we all know the Power Consumption of that Card. I think the point Belgolas was trying to make is that any Card with the poop of the 580 is going to have high power consumption regardless. |
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