AMD Radeon HD 7970 announced

[Slimebeast]

Mummelmann said:

Slimebeast said:

JEMC said:

Slimebeast said:
Honestly Im disappointed with the performance. I have waited for so long for this card and I expected around 60% increase compared to the 6970. Now I must figure a new plan on what to replace my beloved Radeon 4850 with to be able to play Skyrim on max.

I don't like that AMD invests so much in compute performance instead of gaming performance (same with nvidia). It feels like I'm paying for something that I will never use.

What resolution does your monitor have?

http://hardocp.com/article/2011/12/22/amd_radeon_hd_7970_video_card_review/5

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7970-benchmark-tahiti-gcn,3104-9.html

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1361/pg7/amd-radeon-hd-7970-graphics-card-review-skyrim.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970/22.html

With this can should be able to play Skyrim on max evan at Eyefinity resolutions.

Okay that sounds promising but I need lots of headroom for graphics mods for Skyrim. My 4850 cant even handle the Morrowind graphics mods Ive installed, not to speak of Oblivion. My screen is 1920x1200 BTW.

I was hoping for a 5870 kind of improvement and similar pricing  (roughly $400 for the 5870 and $300 for the 5850 at launch). Yes I hoped for too much and AMD has made a great card. I feel I can't spend $500 for this. Im leaning towards getting a 6950 and settle for sub-maximum performance in Skyrim while we wait for the 8000-series. 

Skyrim actually isn't that taxing on the hardware, I have a HD6950 and I run erveything on Ultra with FFAA Post Process Injector without so much as a stutter. The visuals are greatly improved and I still have some leverage with my GPU.

Gothic 3 with heavy mods however, is another story...

What is Post Process Injector?

I know Skyrim vanilla version is relativley mild on hardware but like you said, even an old game like Gofic 3 can become very demanding with heavy modding.