AMD Radeon HD6950/6970(Cayman) Reviews

[TheBreezyBB]

This thread will be full of win in next couple of days!! Complaints about the drivers being old would take a lead role in this one :P:

[SpuTnicK]

That review is weak sauce, Unigine is not a game.

test most of recent games...

here you, just stop crying.

[Lanek]

How is it possible in Dirt2 Hardwareluxx test, he get +44% on min fps and only 2fps on average vs a 5870 ? Driver problem? demo benchmark?

[Dezmen]

here you, just stop crying.

I talked about Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops(or Modern Warfare 2) and some other...

[xBanzai89]

How is it possible in Dirt2 Hardwareluxx test, he get +44% on min fps and only 2fps on average vs a 5870 ? Driver problem? demo benchmark?

Lag spike? Thats why graphs of the total game play FPS is useful.

[Lanek]

huum, yes but 2fps difference ? seriously, you make it run 3 times and you will get 3 times +- 2fps average difference ... or the 6970 improvement don't work well on this game.

[Heinz68]

You guys should let onethreehill make these threads. He is much better at updating the list.

I agree, why starting thread with "in progress", instead of waiting for some real reviews.
This way at least there wont be any need to speculate about the drivers.

EDIT
Plus the links this thread started with were already posted in "AMD Cayman info (or rumor)" thread,
probably for good reason.

[Dezmen]

I agree, why starting thread with "in progress", instead of waiting for some real reviews.
This way at least there wont be any need to speculate about the drivers.

EDIT
Plus the links this thread started with were already posted in "AMD Cayman info (or rumor)" thread,
probably for good reason.

I'm posting here summary info/benches/reviews... so ppl don't need search through 100000 pages...

[twistedneck]

I'm posting here summary info/benches/reviews... so ppl don't need search through 100000 pages...

Keep it up - got the chips out, only a few hours until midnight in Europe.

[zalbard]

Keep it up - got the chips out, only a few hours until midnight in Europe.

Almost 3am, you mean.

[Dezmen]

Almost 3am, you mean.

3:46AM here )) GMT+2

[hurrdurr]

3.56 here too. Obviously I won't stay awake.

[TheBreezyBB]

It's almost 5 AM here.

[zerazax]

Lag spike? Thats why graphs of the total game play FPS is useful.

That's min fps though... so it's weird, but the min fps increase of 44% is pretty significant

Maybe 6970 can't go as high in max fps consistently as 5870, but has a far higher minimum and thus relatively same average, but higher mins are always better

[Hell Hound]

More important than max.

[Heinz68]

I'm posting here summary info/benches/reviews... so ppl don't need search through 100000 pages...

Let's call the right way. You posting rumors from the rumor thread. I doubt right now anybody cares about the rumors and users benchmark should come from members at this forum.

As I said the main reason for waiting for the real reviews is to end the speculation about the drivers. Which keeps going on same as in the rumor thread, no need for that.

Right now this thread is about as good as if somebody started a new thread about reviews with this:

[Dezmen]

/updated ... xD

Let's call the right way. You posting rumors from the rumor thread. I doubt right now anybody cares about the rumors and users benchmark should come from members at this forum.

I post rumors also, so ppl will compare with real reviews :P So i put "User Benches"

[TheBreezyBB]

The cards are out on Newegg. 370$ price tag is just Pure WIN!!

[-=DVS=-]

Wow cards out before reviews

[zerazax]

$370 for 6970
$300 for 6950

Awesome. Those 6950's look like a potential 5850 repeat scenario

[zerazax]

OMGZ 6950 for $15!!!!111

[TheBreezyBB]

Now, I'll be getting a 6970 for the new year.

[omega1alpha]

This industry sucks. Too many brainwashed consumers and fanboys all over the place. What happened to the 4800 series generation pricing? You know, $300 for a new 4870 and $200 for the 4850. Looks like the 6970 is going to be just under $400 and almost the same as the 5870 release pricing. This sucks. Too much for hardware that changes faster than the average punk gamer changes his underwear. I know, it's less than the 580 GTX, but Nvida likes to rip off the "intelligent" who buy this stuff.

I'm sure a ton of zombies will claim that this is great pricing. Nvida has been ripping off the foolish for years and now AMD decided to join them. We need some more competition. This crap is way overpriced and yes I can afford to buy all of them if I wanted. I want lower prices. Luckily, as the global economy falls on it's face over the next few years and millions join the ranks of unemployed, no one will be buying this crap unless they can convert it to food or firewood. Bye...bye Nvidia and Amd. I guess you can focus on military applications.

[thatdude90210]

The 6800 series fill that 4800 role nicely. You can get very good performance at $180-240.

[Pontos]

So, now that we have the full 6 series released, can somebody make a list of AMD cards in ascending order according to performance?
For reference, consider this:

4850 -> 4870 -> 5770 -> 4890 -> 5850 -> 5870.

How does the HD 58xx series perform in comparison with the HD 68xx and 69xx? (Disregard dual-card products like the 5970).

I seriously got lost ever since they released the HD68xx series.