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AMD's New Flagship HD 6970 Tested

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-pixels-please dept.

I.M.O.G. writes "Today AMD officially introduces their newest flagship GPU, the Radeon HD 6970, hot on the heels of the Radeon HD 6870 released at the end of October, then the NVIDIA GTX 580 in early November, which is Nvidia's current flagship card. Initial testing and overclocking results are publishing at first tier review sites now. While the HD 6970 is a strong performer and the price point is outstanding for consumers, the GTX 580 retains the flagship crown while the AMD 5970 keeps the single card performance crown with its dual GPUs on a single card."

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  1. Confusing naming by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These video card naming schemes are just a confusing mess of numbers now. Are the 6000 series better than the 5000 series, or are they parallel series for different market segments?

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  2. Drivers! by Bigbutt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as AMD's driver writers can't come up with stable drivers, picking up an AMD is still a crapshoot.

    [John]

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    1. Re:Drivers! by armanox · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Haven't had issues with ATi drivers since 2007.

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  3. Re:Linux Support? by GooberToo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hardware acceleration is available for both AMD and NVIDIA but is largely limited by whatever software you're running. So for example, flash is only accelerated on 32-bit NVIDIA for now.

    Generally speaking, NVIDIA still provides a superior driver experience and NVIDIA still have the far, far superior OpenGL implementation. AMD has come a long, long ways but it will likely be a year or two, or perhaps even more, before AMD can really challenge NVIDIA in both performance and quality on OpenGL/Linux.

    For the foreseeable future, NVIDIA is still the only sane option for 3D+Linux. Unless, of course, you're the gambling type.