Tuesday, December 20th 2011
AMD's Own HD 7970 Performance Expectations?
Ahead of every major GPU launch, both NVIDIA and AMD give out a document to reviewers known as Reviewer's Guide, in which both provide guidelines (suggestions, not instructions), to reviewers to ensure new GPUs are given a fair testing. In such documents, the two often also give out their own performance expectations from the GPUs they're launching, in which they compare the new GPUs to either previous-generation GPUs from their own brand, or from the competitors'. Apparently such a performance comparison between the upcoming Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580, probably part of such a document, got leaked to the internet, which 3DCenter.org re-posted. The first picture below, is a blurry screenshot of a graph in which the two GPUs are compared along a variety of tests, at a resolution of 2560 x 1600. A Tweakers.net community member recreated that graph in Excel, using that data (second picture below).
A couple of things here are worth noting. Reviewer guide performance numbers are almost always exaggerated, so if reviewers get performance results lower than 'normal', they find it abnormal, and re-test. It's an established practice both GPUs vendors follow. Next, AMD Radeon GPUs are traditionally good at 2560 x 1600. For that matter, the performance gap between even the Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 580 narrows a bit at that resolution.
Source:
3DCenter.org
A couple of things here are worth noting. Reviewer guide performance numbers are almost always exaggerated, so if reviewers get performance results lower than 'normal', they find it abnormal, and re-test. It's an established practice both GPUs vendors follow. Next, AMD Radeon GPUs are traditionally good at 2560 x 1600. For that matter, the performance gap between even the Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 580 narrows a bit at that resolution.
101 Comments on AMD's Own HD 7970 Performance Expectations?
WHUT?
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Reading can be very difficult. Sorry you weren't a winner this time.
Thank YOU for playing.
It all depends on bechmarks when some computer expert has the amd 7970, I personally believe to be true due to 3 reasons, first and 1000mhz gpu design, the second speed virtual memory and the third the 3 gigabytes of virtual memory
www.overclock.net/t/929152/have-you-killed-a-570-no-recent-deaths-buy-some-570s
nope my memory is correct thanks for playing ...
Nvidia has OCP ATI/AMD has Powertune...
and the 580 is just a fully working 480...btw... :banghead:
AMD VP = Alec Baldwin
Suzy = Liz Lemon/ Tina Fey
Bob from Marketing = Tracy Morgan - "These cards are PHAT, they is at least 1.3x the speed of the other cards - I made this graph to show the relationship."
The specifications listed above hint that the 7970 is NOT double the performance of a 6970, so yeah, it's disappointing. With that said, there's very little reason for 6990 users to upgrade, and if the rumoured prices of $499 are correct, I see very little reason to purchase 7970, at all. It's not like current games push the 6950, even, nevermind the 6970.
Besides, it's fail becuase I cannot afford $500 for a GPU.:laugh:
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And they will need a 79xx product priced aggressively because when the Kepler from Nvidia comes out, if you already have a 79xx, you are less likely to upgrade... thus hurting the sales of the competition.
If however, the price is too high... then most people will want to wait for Kepler to either go that route, or to see if the price drops when there is competition in the space.
If I was them, I would release the 7970 at the same price as the 580 and then release the 7950 at the same price as the cheapest 6970 and make it unlockable. That would flood the market with 79xx parts and seriously :nutkick: Nvidia.
IMO i agree that the 7950 will be the product to watch.
First. Why is it blurry? The Picture does not indicate that it was taken by a camera. No lines or glass or splotches.
Second. The lettering looks tampered with. It could be that someone attempted to blur it on purpose. But why in such a way? Their are far easier ways to blur a photo. Not to mention the graphs look doubled.
Third. The areas around the lettering. They look brighter white to me. Why? If a photo was blurred this should not be the case.
Someone said that this graph looks accurate according to rumors. But thats assuming the graph is legitimate. The graph could too easily and IMO probably is fake. Theirfor of course it would represent the current performance rumors.
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At $500... Nvidia hasn't any reason to worry about lowering the 580's (40Nm price is fixed) they might adjust a little and AIB will offer more custom solutions, but Nvidia has no reason to run out little the buildings on fire. They’ll hold and play their cards, because they know they'll be in the same situation when Kepler starts showing.
They'll want to cut into a nice chunk of Nvidia's market share, and, you're right, they won't do it with a $500 card. It would be unfortunate if they couldn't produce enough units to take advantage of what they have, but scarcity would be the only way the price would stay that high.