5970 - worth it?
- Thread starter G-sus
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looking to snatch up another one 
Read up on it, in most case the 5970 will kick the 660 and 7850 ass big time. It is a duel GPU card and can also kick some as to the 7970.
alxcsb
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Show me one benchmark in which the 5970 is faster than the 7970, especially with the 12.11 drivers. Notice in the following link how the 5970 loses big time in most real life benchmarks, not even being able to run Crysis in 2560x1600. The 7970 has 3 times the frame buffer, uses 30 percent less power, quiet, cool, better OC headroom, will continue to receive driver support. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should buy a card that is 3 generations behind, unless you can get a 5970 for less than £100. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/587?vs=508
Read all the post on page 2 and 3, so you will know some things.
5970 is imho still a top card. Close to being on par with a stock 7950.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,14.html
Sure it'll chew power like its going out of fashion but if you can get it at a bargain bin price i'd jump at it.
That psu is a little long in the tooth though and suffers from bad vdroop so maybe limit the overclocking on the gpu if you do by chance get one.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,14.html
Sure it'll chew power like its going out of fashion but if you can get it at a bargain bin price i'd jump at it.
That psu is a little long in the tooth though and suffers from bad vdroop so maybe limit the overclocking on the gpu if you do by chance get one.
seumasbeathan
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You are aware that in the link you just posted there are benchmarks in which the 5970 beats that 7970 right?
And also it really annoys me when people do the whole "its old therefore it is useless thing" thats rubbish, for example a 3 year old 5870 is in most games on par and sometimes better than a 7850, a card which is 3 years newer, just because it is newer doesn't mean it is better
alxcsb
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Yes, there are, in which the 5970 wins by 2-4% max. On the other hand, most of the other ones are won by the 7970 by more than 10%, in some cases, such as Batman AC, the 7970 is more than twice as fast. Hell, the 5970 doesn't even bench in Crysis @ 2560. To put an end to this, I would buy the 7970 just because it is more future proof and it will be a faster card in future games, not to mention that it will also receive updates through new driver versions.
seumasbeathan
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And how much is a 7970? is it £170? Because thats how much G-sus got a near equal card in the 5970
G-sus
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The 7970 is a 3GB card, the 5970 is a 2 GB card and it's dual GPU, so essentially it's 1GB per GPU. I won't be playing anything at 2560, so I'm only worried about 1920x1080. The reason I'm looking at a 5970 in the first place is because of funds. If I had the money, of course I would be buying a 7970, hell I would buy a 7990 if I had a lot of money. If I can get similar performance to a 7970 for cheaper, I'm taking it.
right on mate.
