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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested

Posted by timothy on from the that's-rent-in-some-towns dept.

MojoKid writes "Rumors of AMD's Southern Island family of graphics processors have circulated for some time, though today AMD is officially announcing their latest flagship single-GPU graphics card, the Radeon HD 7970. AMD's new Tahiti GPU is outfitted with 2,048 stream processors with a 925MHz engine clock, featuring AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture, paired to 3GB of GDDR5 memory connected over a 384-bit wide memory bus. And yes, it's crazy fast as you'd expect and supports DX11.1 rendering. In the benchmarks, the new Radeon HD 7970 bests NVIDIA's fastest single GPU GeForce GTX 580 card by a comfortable margin of 15 — 20 percent and can even approach some dual GPU configurations in certain tests." PC Perspective has a similarly positive writeup. There are people who will pay $549 for a video card, and others who are just glad that the technology drags along the low-end offerings, too.

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  1. It's too bad... by Reverand+Dave · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...that AMD can't put out a video driver that isn't total garbage.

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  2. Re:Overpowerful. by unity100 · · Score: -1, Troll

    there is no difference in between 25 fps, or 30 fps or 40 fps to the human eye playing a game. other than the counter fraps shows. there wasnt any difference in between these with respect to human physiology and eye-brain connections either. we were still perceiving 24 fps as smooth, and anything over 30 fps as very smooth. thats why hdmi standard used to mandate 24 fps.

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  3. Re:Overpowerful. by unity100 · · Score: -1, Troll

    . I feel that 25fps is just flat out unplayable and anything under 60 is distracting and annoying. I believe that most gamers would agree

    and thats the problem. you FEEL that. all scientific researches show 'smooth' being 24 fps for human eye (hence hdmi minimum mandatory frame rate), and anything over 30 fps smooth even if you try to twinkle your eye by looking towards another direction than the display.

    you FEEL it. its totally subjective, unscientific, unbacked opinion.

    and its bullshit. excuse me but there is no other way of putting this, after thinking like you for close to a decade and trying to beef up my pc to meet the totally unnecessary frame rate counts, only to eventually notice that its a whole load of subjective bullcrap.

    we, as people, do not notice differences from 30 fps and on, EVEN if we ourselves 'feel' that we do.

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