Radeon HD 7000 Revealed: AMD to Mix GCN with VLIW4 & VLIW5 Architectures

[Lanek]

I will not too much wait about score in 3Dmark suite at launch, ( first cause what i want to know it is how they OC, and what the score OC ),
but remember whatever it is Nvidia or AMD, in general in 3Dmark, we see a big boost 1-2 drivers then when this is a new architecture ( 3Dmark06 + cypress, a 2000pnts boost on the second official driver, same in vantage. and for Fermi it was the exact same thing with the GTX480. )

For thoses type of bench, new arch need allways some drivers tweaking for perform at their full potential.

Specially 3Dmark11 is a lot more complex in what it test compared to old benchmark ( who was mostly graphic based ), Physic, OpenCL, computing, + shader performance... a driver for a new architecture with new or enhanced performance in 3Dmark11 will surely need a lot of tweaking.