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Mummelmann on 27 December 2011
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Slimebeast said:
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JEMC said:
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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.


Its a popular graphics mod which extends and adds a lot of post processing effects, it runs poorly without the 4GB patch though. Textures aren't greatly improved though, we have to wait for the Skyrim HD mod for that but that won't be ready for months yet with the amount of work it takes.