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DemoniOtaku on 27 December 2011

I Was Thinking on buy a 6870 early 2012, but will be good to wait to a 7800 series card?



 

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Scoobes on 27 December 2011
DemoniOtaku said:
I Was Thinking on buy a 6870 early 2012, but will be good to wait to a 7800 series card?

They should be out by then anyway. It's a completely new architecture so I'm going to go with get a 7870.... that's my plan anyway.




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Mummelmann on 27 December 2011
Slimebeast said:
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.


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.



DemoniOtaku on 27 December 2011
Scoobes said:
DemoniOtaku said:
I Was Thinking on buy a 6870 early 2012, but will be good to wait to a 7800 series card?

They should be out by then anyway. It's a completely new architecture so I'm going to go with get a 7870.... that's my plan anyway.


I'd sold my GTX260 two weeks ago and i'm waiting to buy a new GPU on janaury, now that the 7000 series has been confirmed I can wait some days till janaury 9th, but no more than that, has been confirmed tha mid-range series for that day? Not even Amazon have them listed!



 

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disolitude on 27 December 2011

 

Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:
I do like that AMD is releasing this early as it will lower the price of the GTX580. If they go down to 300-350 early next year, I may add a 3rd one...

Not sure its needed though as I don't do 3D gaming anymore and 3 monitors run flawless with 2 GTX580s.

What? Why don't you do 3D gaming anymore??

Yeah, i dont. got quite bored with it. i actually go out of my way to avoid 3d movies in theares... once your eyes are completely used to the effect, its game over man.



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Slimebeast on 27 December 2011
disolitude said:

 

Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:
I do like that AMD is releasing this early as it will lower the price of the GTX580. If they go down to 300-350 early next year, I may add a 3rd one...

Not sure its needed though as I don't do 3D gaming anymore and 3 monitors run flawless with 2 GTX580s.

What? Why don't you do 3D gaming anymore??

Yeah, i dont. got quite bored with it. i actually go out of my way to avoid 3d movies in theares... once your eyes are completely used to the effect, its game over man.

What do you mean by your last sentence?

And I thought you used to say it was the other way, that once u had experienced good 3D you couldnt go back to 2D gaming,



disolitude on 27 December 2011
Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:

 

Slimebeast said:
disolitude said:
I do like that AMD is releasing this early as it will lower the price of the GTX580. If they go down to 300-350 early next year, I may add a 3rd one...

Not sure its needed though as I don't do 3D gaming anymore and 3 monitors run flawless with 2 GTX580s.

What? Why don't you do 3D gaming anymore??

Yeah, i dont. got quite bored with it. i actually go out of my way to avoid 3d movies in theares... once your eyes are completely used to the effect, its game over man.

What do you mean by your last sentence?

And I thought you used to say it was the other way, that once u had experienced good 3D you couldnt go back to 2D gaming,


Tastes change i guess. last thing i want to do now is play a game in 3d. Just the idea of putting those glasses on annoys me...lol



JEMC on 31 December 2011

Quick question: Has AMD advanced their launch date? I'm asking because I've seen this on a Spanish site:

http://www.pccomponentes.com/sapphire_radeon_hd_7970_3gb_gddr5.html

On sale with stock for 529 € + shipping.

For reference, this are their prices:

6970 from 298 to 360 €

580 from 429 to 537 €

7970 only 1 model for 529 €

6990 just 2 models for 567 or 599 €

590 from 649 to 712 €



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DemoniOtaku on 31 December 2011
JEMC said:

Quick question: Has AMD advanced their launch date? I'm asking because I've seen this on a Spanish site:

http://www.pccomponentes.com/sapphire_radeon_hd_7970_3gb_gddr5.html

On sale with stock for 529 € + shipping.

For reference, this are their prices:

6970 from 298 to 360 €

580 from 429 to 537 €

 

7970 only 1 model for 529 €

 

6990 just 2 models for 567 or 599 €

590 from 649 to 712 €

 

 

Amazon listed the item for Janaury 9... but there's no nesws on the other models of mid-rang to high level...



 

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