Quote Originally Posted by Kristoferr View Post
The reason i sayd 1:1 is because its rather similar perfoming card which came out nearly 4 months after the HD.
Actually it's been only 2 months since HD7970 became available for purchase. Paper launch, remember?


Its not 16% better like some fans posted earlier. Not even close.
When you take into account ALL resolutions commonly used in games, yes... it is 16% better. I know you just want to cherry pick a few very high resolutions that 99.999% of gamers don't use because they don't run 3 monitors, but the numbers are quite clear.

Like i sayd before. AMD needs to drop 7970 price bit under the GTX and it will still be atractive to buyers. AMD has already sold a lot of cards in past months. Now they can afford a price cut.
You'd have to cut the price at least $150 in order to get an objective customer to even consider the 7970. I could care less about the fanboys since they'll buy anything. If the CEO took a dump in a box, one of them would buy it. hehe.

What interests me a lot is how much costs the production of GTX 680 vs HD 7970. The GPU dye is big part of the overall cost, but its not everything. We may think that GTX should be cheaper to make, but im not 100% sure on that.
Of course GTX 680 is cheaper to produce. It's a much smaller GPU die which means more chips can be made from each wafer, plus you guys are forgetting about the elephant in the room.... VRAM!! That extra gb GDDR5 is not cheap, nor is the wider memory bus, or additional layers in the PCB.