AMD Radeon HD6950/6970(Cayman) Reviews

[Piotrsama]

Someone clearly forgot Call of Juarez, where AMD had the company completely block MSAA support entirely so that it had to be run AMD's way or no way at all as NVidia had not yet optimized that method of AA. This artificially made the 2900XT look competitive with the 8800GTX(although 2 driver releases later that was nowhere near the case). To make it worse, the copy they sent NVidia was BEFORE this change, and they then sent reviewers the benchmark with it all changes literally not even giving NVidia a chance to acknowledge that there was a change.

AMD was not on charge at that time, don't blame them.

How would you feel if you bought a new $379 video card and found out it absolutely sucks in comparison to it's competitors in 2 games you play because the reviewers felt that it would be more fair to AMD. I know I would be OUT RIGHT furious if it's a game I really enjoy playing, wouldn't you?

It would only be your fault for not searching reviews that benched your favorite games.

What AMD need to be worried about, as well as all owners of the new AMD cards, is if crysis uses tessellation as heavily as HAWX2 does, which current rumors makes it appear that it might. If it does, then people are going to be extremely upset with their purchases.

Of course, I'm never one to gamble on the "what-if's" of the future when it comes to hardware. I look at the here and now scenario.

Ok, just stay with your "what-if's" on the software side