AMD Radeon HD6950/6970(Cayman) Reviews

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Lies. Please reference high IQ tests of those games that bring mid range GPUs to their knees. For some reason no one bothers to test high IQ med. resolution except for techpowerup. Techreport does high IQ high res and GTX 460s drop to 23 fps.

23 FPS in what? Civ 5? Sure, because the CPU becomes the bottleneck. I have yet to encounter any repeatable late-game situation where the framerates dip to low digits.

Or maybe that's because sites testing the game are using a completely unrealistic in-game benchmark that doesn't use AI (the one thing that tanks framerates when actually PLAYING the game).... Yes, it spits out frames but what's the use if it doesn't reflect real-world gameplay?

We used Civ V and I am continuing to look for an acceptable situation where framerates can be conclusive but once again, I haven't been able to yet.

Perhaps you should actually see their testing that they did, and not lip service.

They did no testing other than discussing the points and counter points between NVIDIA's claims and AMD's. And yet they continue to use the benchmark in their reviews.