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[Nikodemos]

Is this a dual or single gpu?

It's their flagship single-GPU.

As I've predicted in some older thread about the new cards, AMD has followed nVidia (out of choice, out of necessity, maybe a bit out of both) down this path, with their highest-end card being single GPU (and their dual-GPU using lower-powered parts). People who believed they would put out two dual-GPU cards were clearly wrong.

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(This makes me 2 out of 2 up to now with this and Nintendo dropping the 3D out of the 3DS, btw. Yay, better record than Pach.)

 

[Damaniel]

I've been on Team Nvidia almost exclusively for the last 10 years (except for a couple months with a pair of 6870s in Crossfire that hardly worked with most games), but I'm glad to see that AMD might have something that's truly price and performance competitive. More (and better) competition is good!

Now AMD just needs to get all of their driver issues worked out (especially their Crossfire problems)...

 

[RukusProvider]

For comparison, my GTX780 at 1241core and 6800mem does 67.5fps at this setting. I run the card at that 24/7.

Yes it's stock vs OC so I'll be looking foward to it's OC potential.

 

[1st Course]

insane. how is that possible? if i recall it didn't look that much better than COH1

COH2 high aa = 4xSSAA + FXAA

That why it's so demanding. Playing with low aa (FXAA), the game is not really that demanding.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Only reason why I wouldn't buy this immediately is due to the fact that I can't afford to sacrifice my Xbox One and PS4 money, but I'm definitely buying on the price drop.

 

[LittleJohnny]

Just look at this.

This game is terribly optimized. :lol

Fixed that for you ;-)

 

[WolvenOne]

I've been on Team Nvidia almost exclusively for the last 10 years (except for a couple months with a pair of 6870s in Crossfire that hardly worked with most games), but I'm glad to see that AMD might have something that's truly price and performance competitive. More (and better) competition is good!

Now AMD just needs to get all of their driver issues worked out (especially their Crossfire problems)...

According to the guys at Toms Hardware guys, for most games the most recent driver update puts Crossfire X about on par with SLI. It just needs to be applied to DX9 and OpenGL titles at this point, and supposedly another driver update will do just that.

So, assuming they don't somehow break the driver in between now and then, that more or less solves the Crossfire issue.

 

[ethomaz]

Close batter between Titan and the new Radeon... nVidia will need to cut prices... DAT competition.

Both needs 20nm urgent.

 

[Reallink]

It's amazing how different PC and console demographics are. $599 US dollars is a 2 jobs cardinal sin in the console space while over in PC land it's an unthinkably low bargain bin value everyone hopes and wishes for.

 

[kudoboi]

The lack of Titan/780 owners in this thread is amusing. I own a 680 and I aint even mad.

i own a 7870 and im pretty mad that i bought it earlier this year.

 

[artist]

What would make me mad is if Nvidia rushed out Maxwell for winter/spring on 28nm in response to AMD's new cards. It would suck to wait until 2015 for 'Real' Maxwell.

Why would you be mad? As long as the hypothetical 28nm Maxwell kicked ass and took names (at a decent price, lol) then who the fuck cares if it's not 20nm.

 

[foxdvd]

GTX 690 here for well over a year and have never felt bad about my purchase...

 

[vazel]

It's amazing how different PC and console demographics are. $599 US dollars is a 2 jobs cardinal sin in the console space while over in PC land it's an unthinkably low bargain bin value everyone hopes and wishes for.

The $600 cards are for the enthusiasts with a lot of money. The rest of us get the $200-300 cards.

I'm really happy with my factory oc'ed MSI 660ti card which I bought for $300. Especially since I got the Nvidia $150 F2P bundle with it.

 

[ethomaz]

GTX 690 here for well over a year and have never felt bad about my purchase...

I thinkyour GTX 690 beats any card in theses benchs... so you are a really lucky guy :-D

 

[x3sphere]

It's amazing how different PC and console demographics are. $599 US dollars is a 2 jobs cardinal sin in the console space while over in PC land it's an unthinkably low bargain bin value everyone hopes and wishes for.

I'm really not thrilled at all if it's $600. Pretty sure that's unprecedented for an AMD card. I think the 7970 at launch ($550) was their highest, but it had a large and consistent performance advantage over the 580.

Also, there are some other benches in the link that show the new card slightly below a 780/Titan.

 

[artist]

I'm really not thrilled at all if it's $600. Pretty sure that's unprecedented for an AMD card. I think the 7970 at launch ($550) was their highest, but it had a large and consistent performance advantage over the 580.

Also, there are some other benches in the link that show the new card slightly below a 780/Titan.

Engineering sample and unlikely mature drivers, how do they work? Again, I'm not saying these benches are genuine but the perf advantage shown in other games is pretty large for this to make any sense ..

Btw, I think the XT PE & XTX during the X1xxx days were above $600 mark.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Please start making better drivers.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

for $600, you get a Titan killer and also BF4 and 2 more games free....

SOLD.

 

[chaosblade]

I want to believe, because it would be great for the cards a couple notches down that I could afford.

But I don't, primarily based on AMD's previous comments about price and performance.

 

[Putty]

Very nice if true but I'll stick with my 7950 8) I'll quite happily drop the screen res in the future to keep a certain level of eye candy. Having been used to XB/PS consoles for so long aswell I know I can live with even a 720p res.

 

[x3sphere]

Engineering sample and unlikely mature drivers, how do they work? Again, I'm not saying these benches are genuine but the perf advantage shown in other games is pretty large for this to make any sense ..

Btw, I think the XT PE & XTX during the X1xxx days were above $600 mark.

In some of the benches even the 7970 GHz isn't far behind the 780 (see AvP or CoH 2), so it's not surprising the new card is ahead by a good margin in those games. They favor AMD arch.

In games where the performance gap between 780 and the 7970 is larger, the new card is mostly neck and neck with Titan and 780. BF3 looks to be an exception though.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing the OC performance. Most GTX780s can clock up quite high so hopefully the headroom on AMD's new card is also good.

 

[iavi]

Please start making better drivers.

?

Is this never going to end?

AMD's latest drivers, and actually for a while now, have been fantastic. Nailing problems, boosting performance, adding features, etc.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing the OC performance. Most GTX780s can clock up quite high so hopefully the headroom on AMD's new card is also good.

If the headroom is anything like the 7xxx series, good god.

 

[Addnan]

I doubt it's real. If it is real great, I will buy it. At $600 better than Titan, I will believe it when I see it. Not long to go now anyway.

 

[AdmiralPain]

It's amazing how different PC and console demographics are. $599 US dollars is a 2 jobs cardinal sin in the console space while over in PC land it's an unthinkably low bargain bin value everyone hopes and wishes for.

These are enthusiast-level cards, enthusiasts can easily afford them. I usually spend no more than $300 on a new card purchase, unless a true bargain dictates a larger spend.

 

[Smokey]

If these are true and that price is true...gonna have to start working to move my Titan

Based on the rumored specs...don't see this being $600 but if it is lawd help me

 

[TacticalFox88]

If it is $600 that's such a bitchslap to Titan.

 

[MaLDo]

Those are some strange numbers. SLI 780s being beat by a 7970GHz, lol.

SLI doesn't work in CoH2, it's disabled.

 

[damaph]

Those are some very impressive benchmarks for that pricepoint.

 

[mrklaw]

What an amazing card it sounds. You'll be able to run in nice high resolutions and downsample to your monitors resolution.


If they ever update their drivers to bloody support that

 

[Dennis]

Faster than Titan? Me likey.....oh, its AMD. Never mind.

Benchmarks at 1080p? tsh tsh who even games at so low resolutions these days? Its all about 1600p+ now.....

 

[El_Chino]

Faster than Titan? Me likey.....oh, its AMD. Never mind.

Cold.

 

[Nokterian]

That looks promising. Having a 7970 it's a pretty fine card. That card though would be a major upgrade for me.

 

[Sanjay]

Wait, Company of Heroes 2 takes that much juice to run at 60FPS? Really?

@ Medium AA to.

Game is awfully optimized for a game that looks slightly better then COH 1.

 

[KKRT00]

@ Medium AA to.

Game is awfully optimized for a game that looks slightly better then COH 1.

Medium AA is 2x SSAA.

 

[2San]

I hope this is true. Finally some action again. Doubt it though.

 

[Lime]

Wow @ Company of Heroes 2....

 

[Dictator93]

I hope it's true. Nvidia needs a kick in the balls to get motivated again.

THis sounds about right.

@ Medium AA to.

Game is awfully optimized for a game that looks slightly better then COH 1.

Medium AA is 2x SSAA.

People are surprised by bad performance if the game's AA is SSAA?

How does it run without AA? That would be the telling thing.

 

[kharma45]

Brings the goods AMD.

 

[2San]

People are surprised by bad performance if the game's AA is SSAA?

How does it run without AA? That would be the telling thing.

This gives an indication:

with low AA it's not that bad:

Still crazy though.

 

[Timedog]

Company of Heroes 2 must be the most unoptimized POS of all time. I thought Sleeping Dogs was bad.

 

[Dictator93]

@ Medium AA to.

Game is awfully optimized for a game that looks slightly better then COH 1.

Medium AA is 2x SSAA.

Company of Heroes 2 must be the most unoptimized POS of all time. I thought Sleeping Dogs was bad.

Sleeping dogs runs well. DId you happen to run it with SSAA unwittingly like a lot of people?

 

[cripterion]

Competition is good! I owned both ATI and Nvidia and there are cons and pros for each side. I do have a better experience with Nvidia though nowadays so I'm going to hold out for whaterver new cards they got coming next and sit on these 670's.

 

[velociraptor]

Wow. I hope this is competitively priced. This card sounds like an absolute monster!

Probably will cost minimum £400-500 though. Heh.

 

[xenist]

Low resolution and medium to high settings. I'll wait for better benchmarks.

 

[KKRT00]

Sleeping dogs runs well. DId you happen to run it with SSAA unwittingly like a lot of people?

Yeah, people think if thats say max setting that they can always running without learning what options means. Same was for Metro:LL - 'omg game is so unoptimized i have 20fps' when they were running with SSAA ...

 

[kitch9]

What's the use if the drivers are still digital vomit?

Nvidia has been churning out shit problematic driver's for a while.

 

[polyh3dron]

Fix Crossfire and I am fucking in.

 

[velociraptor]

What's the use if the drivers are still digital vomit?

What is so bad about AMD drivers? Been rocking an AMD card since 2011 and I've had absolutely no problems with it.

 

[Dictator93]

What is so bad about AMD drivers? Been rocking an AMD card since 2011 and I've had absolutely no problems with it.

Crossfire and AMD has nothing on Nvidia Inspector really.

 

[rafbanaan]

Thought I was done with the Team Red, but this looks tasty. Interesting indeed . . .

Same here, damn AMD!