ASUS Releases Overclocked HD 6900 Series GPUs

[gaurang]

Slightly overclocked, but with better cooling apparatus... more scope for overclocking then?

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[Mr Muggles]

Card manufacturers bring out a new card every damn year with not enough of a jump in performance most of the time. I'm starting to get a little cynical about this to be honest.

[Rastalovich]

It can look a little crazy that way. The big two only really want to beat their own previous cards by around 10-20%, as anything else isn't going to make them the big money.

But as far as the HD69xx pairing are concerned, I really hope people, especially the would-be enthusiasts, don't get completely engulfed by the immediate reviews of the range and take it as a set-in-stone opinion of them - quite like the awful effect reviewers had on the 480 releases. Remember for such a bad card, the 480 immediately dominated the overclocking charts, setting records. (subsequently broken obviously)

There have been outstanding results particularly with the 6970, that I've just not seen duplicated yet. I can only really say that there must be variations to come that will prove better performers. ASUS's offerings merely with the differences they're making, will push the numbers already seen - further.

And if you're not a physx/folding fan, and just crave fps, they're an outstanding set of cards.

Also look out for bios changes and updates. Those with switches would have them for a reason imo. (ones I seen never had switches at all)

[Heebs]

From what I've seen if you game above 1080 then the 6900 series is a better card than the nvidia offerings. Sure the 580 will be faster than a 6970 but the premium you pay isnt worth that small increase in performance. At lower resolutions the 580 is going to be faster but lets say the 580 cranks out 200 fps at 1920x1080, if the 6970 is 20% slower thats still an insane amount of frames. The performance gap gets smaller as you go up in resolution and thats where the 6970 REALLY shines.

[murphy7801]

Originally Posted by Heebs

From what I've seen if you game above 1080 then the 6900 series is a better card than the nvidia offerings. Sure the 580 will be faster than a 6970 but the premium you pay isnt worth that small increase in performance. At lower resolutions the 580 is going to be faster but lets say the 580 cranks out 200 fps at 1920x1080, if the 6970 is 20% slower thats still an insane amount of frames. The performance gap gets smaller as you go up in resolution and thats where the 6970 REALLY shines.

The only reason looks good some large rez is due it having 2gb gddr5 it has less stream processor than a 5870 its actual processing power is pretty weak just handle large textures as soon as they do a double gddr 580/570 that strength is moot.