TotallyI'm not stirring s**t here but just wondering. Anyone else notice that the GTX680 has half as many transistors as the HD7970 and uses the same amount of power, how it does that translate into a larger chip?

It doesn't, don't let the fanboi's tell you otherwise. 7970 = GTX480 in terms of direction. Hopefully AMD don't do an Nvidia and drop it all just to gain more frames in games whilst losing compute power.

GzeroIt doesn't, don't let the fanboi's tell you otherwise. 7970 = GTX480 in terms of direction. Hopefully AMD don't do an Nvidia and drop it all just to gain more frames in games whilst losing compute power.

nah AMD didnt focus on compute power until the market was right hence the 7970 having what the 5800 and 6900 series didnt.

NV dropped it to reduce complexity. 7970 is the First Gen GCN arch which is still pretty much a test subject. Revised and 8x series should be the true finished product

eidairaman1NV dropped it to reduce complexity. 7970 is the First Gen GCN arch which is still pretty much a test subject. Revised and 8x series should be the true finished product

No Nvidia couldn't get a cost effective "Top Dog" to work even with "complexity of Turbo Boost", so they figured better to get the gaming crown ASAP by using a much more cost effective "mainstream" chip and then use Turbo Boost (PCB and components') to make it really sing, though not commit harry carey doing so! It was a good move that work in their favor, but Nvidia’s "test subject" went back into R&D (GK110). Tahiti came to market and yes bigger and costly from the fact the TSMC pulled a price increase for 28nm just a few month before it came to market. That price increase was what a GK100 couldn't deal with, that and the added cost of PCB for the Turbo boost made a non-starter.

The thing we see is that 28Nm parts have huge clock potential, but that erodes the efficiency and TDP in a conventional clock application, can AMD bring a "Tahiti" with Dynamic clock controls to market on the next refresh?

Looks like some 7xxx price cuts are showing up in Europe....

www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jules/amd-radeon-price-cuts-come-crashing-through/

About time, Make way for the Geforce of doom.

PRICE CUT @ NEW EGG (US)

7950's as low as $379.99
7970's as low as $469.99

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