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

[cold2010]

HD 7970 in this game does not get a great value over the GTX 580!!

[Lanek]

HD 7970 in this game does not get a great value over the GTX 580!!

yep it depend the game, drivers surely, for example, guru3d have got a strange thing in Dirt2, whatever they have used as setting, performance was allways 105fps.. and some graphic corruption.

Dont forget, theres only 1 driver available, a beta ( who seem not fully stable in some cases ). ( thoes games have been a lot tweaked on drivers since their release.. i cant remember 1 driver from both camp who was not improve framerates or fix trouble along 2011)

[mindfury]

HD 7970 in this game does not get a great value over the GTX 580!!

My understanding is that BF3 isn't using display lists. Generally speaking, though, we still have a lot to learn from GCN (even though the driver / 3D software teams have pulled an incredible feat off here - thanks guys!). I don't know what rev of the review driver Anand used, but we found about another 5% half way through the review cycle. Additionally we are finding things out right now such as the VLIW opimised FXAA code that DICE graciously implemented under an AMD path is now not as optimal as the NVIDIA FXAA path with GCN!

Lots to learn.

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