PowerColor 6970 pictured and benched

[Mr Krugga]

New CCC looks nice. Hope they managed to increase performance in some games as well.

Yes, 50% increase with Cayman Pro/XT

 

[Sidney James]

It strikes me that the processor is a 1055t amd at 4.2!! now I could be wrong but a lot of people can only manage 3.8 on air and why go to trouble of watercooling a chip like that(cheap)?

 

[Mr Krugga]

It strikes me that the processor is a 1055t amd at 4.2!! now I could be wrong but a lot of people can only manage 3.8 on air and why go to trouble of watercooling a chip like that(cheap)?

Yes, you're wrong.

 

[GoodStuff]

Its a tad unusual to try and mis-direct people by purposefully releasing slow cards into the wild tho its not really a great tactic if people are leaking how slow your cards are* even if they actually are a lot faster.



* You will lose customers i.e. people will think "well blow waiting for that then I'll just buy the <insert EOL/competition> card instead" and spend their money before release.

It's probably to make up for when AMD released fast versions of the HD 6850 (1120 shaders and tessellation was over 30% better!) to some reviewers instead of the regular speed versions (960 shaders). Now this time, they send reviewers slower cards. Some reviewers were dumb and returned the faster 6850s for the regular. And the reason, it seems, that those 6850s had extra shaders was since they had a different BIOS that activated the extra hidden hardware.

So it can be totally possible that there are fast and slow versions of the Radeon HD 6970.

http://www.geeks3d.com/20101025/radeon-hd-6850-with-960-and-1120-shaders-tessmark-and-shadertoymark-comparisons/
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20604-hd-6850-with-1120-shaders-went-to-reviewers
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1942

 

[Skyrocket]

lets talk about the card not the gui for it please.
based on those benches. thats poor even for a 6950.
it could all change in the next 3 days......

cant see it happening though..

no wonder charlie and co have been quiet.

 

[GJ02]

^^^
charlies last comment on SA yesterday was suggesting why people weren't asking about the switch turning from 1920sp to 25••+

He hasn't really been quiet

 

[Buckster]

rightyo - if we're sensible - why would you possibly have a switch like that for that purpose

it would make no sense at all - if there was such a switch it'd be done by software

 

[Scougar]

Performance that bad? Not gonna happen.

 

[GJ02]

I do wonder
This guy has got the card, why is there no comment or reference to this new mystery switch
Also the sticker on the card, isn't it the same guy with the sword that's on the HIS card ?

 

[Buckster]

I'm beginning to think I should unsubscribe to this thread as we're all speculating - but its kind of interesting only a few days to go ...

anyone seen the testers recent posts re power usage under load ?

I see hes posted a screenie using the new GPU-Z build which in theory supports the new cards.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Still happy with my 5970 - where is the 6990?

 

[magicroundabout]

without reading all the thread that bench is clearly a fake. just looking at the number of shaders, date and the actual difference in fost of the numbers it's fake. the 1600 shaders is clear to see.

compared to the other GPU-Z results in the other thread this isn't real

 

[Buckster]

what other GPU-Z results magic ?

 

[magicroundabout]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17982398&postcount=1190

 

[buttkinz]

I think all this mess is that amd never had a set of drivers finished and people are using 5800 achitecture drivers

 

[RavenXXX2]

without reading all the thread that bench is clearly a fake. just looking at the number of shaders, date and the actual difference in fost of the numbers it's fake. the 1600 shaders is clear to see.

compared to the other GPU-Z results in the other thread this isn't real

Yeah GPU_Z results in the other thread are from the same guy in this thread, hes just updated to a new version of GPU-Z that now shows the correct specs.

 

[magicroundabout]

but aren't they both 0.4.9 versions?

 

[sturmtruppe]

Not takin any of this info in tbh.

I remember this time last year, speculationthat nvidia would be dead and buried by now....I think I'll wait for when the card is properly benched.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah has not brought out a new build just updated it to support the 69** cards, link below.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=136218

 

[magicroundabout]

personally i'm not buying it. i'll wait till official results are out