reverzewish these editions would come out sooner after the release of the GPUs

MelvisI agree, and i still haven't seen the benchmarks on these new chips, are they realy any better or what?

reverzewww.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/5.html

wizard did a great review of the new drivers for their most recent cards, 7870 does very well at an excellent price, also overclocks like mad while keeping low power usage, so these toxic editions will only improve on that. Been thinking about buying one but then i remember myself i got a 6950 that has no issues running any games.

MelvisYea i saw the review and that made me change my mind from getting 2 GTX660Ti's to the 7870's and for $100 less per card.

Yea so i just want to see a stock one of these versus a stock older 7870 and see the difference?

Yea 6950 is still good thats for sure.

MelvisYea so i just want to see a stock one of these versus a stock older 7870 and see the difference?

Th3pwn3rPersonally I'm still not a fan of SLI or Crossfire, I often see people having issues so I prefer one big powerhouse of a card if I'm going to spend the money.

alwaysstsLook at the TPU chart where 7950 (800mhz)/660ti is. It will be right in that split hair group. Like others have mentioned, this replaces the 800mhz 7950 pretty much exactly.

At the end of the day you can't help but laugh when 7870 is a well-designed chip, but people seem to want something just the slightest bit faster than it's stock capability to get over the that hump it sits straight on top of when overclocked (max settings and 1080p). Obviously they could not straight up bin or warranty 1200mhz, so the result is AMD making three different cards that perform the same (7950, 7870 TLE, 8850) and only about 10% faster than a stock 7870.

• It's still based on Pitcairn and not Tahiti LE
• It's exclusive to the Chinese markets