I'm currently using the HD6870, which got a bit outdated lately. I started thinking about a new GPU a few months ago and i initially intended to wait for the HD8000 series which, i was pretty sure, would release in Q1 2013. But now that it's delayed to Q2 and nvidia not releasing anything before end of 2013 i'm considering getting a 7950 or a 7970 if it drops a little bit more in price. I'm probably not going to get anything from nVidia since the overclocking abilities of the AMD cards are better, the performance/€ is better and i have no need for Cuda either. Shall i wait for the 8000 series? Is it worth it? My budget is around 350€.
Should i wait for the HD8000 series?
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PingPangBV
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I know where you're going with that. Yes Intel Core CPUs pretty much owns the AMD FX-series as of today but really, he shouldn't be experiencing any bottlenecks in any games by using that CPU with a single GPU.
Well I last thing I heard about the 8000-series was that it was going to be released in Q1, but I really don't think it's going to be that early tbh, more like Q2 like you said.
The question you should be asking yourself is what kind of GPU power do you need? If you know that a 7970 will be more then enough for your needs then you should go for it.
the problem is that i am a bit afraid that i might regret buying a recent gpu and that if i'd just wait a few months the 8000 series might destroy the 7000 series. same applies for the 700 series (i heard GK110 would be pretty overkill), but the 700 series releases way too late for me.
grassman
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Actually I was going to say grab a FX 8320 :lol:
Yeah it's OTT hating its pretty much on par with 2500k better multi threading tad worse single threading.
My PC started out as a budget build and that is definitely AMD territory, i'd prefer a well overclockable FX-4100 at any time over an i3 (i'm kind of a hypocrate on that since i fucked up my overclock a few weeks ago which caused my OS to crash so badly, i had to reinstall it). Intel is definitely superior in the "high end (not the supercomputing stuff)" area, so next time i will get a CPU i'm going for the real deal. The FX8320 wouldn't be an improvement really, i spend most of my time playing rather old games (cod4, BFBC2), those games don't utilize the 8 cores and for rendering i'd still prefer hyper threading. The reason i want to upgrade the GPU is that Borderlands 2 etc. suffer from heavy framedrops and anything beneath 60fps makes me cry.
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PEXON
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AMD also announced the Radeon HD 8000 family of graphics processors, previously confirmed for laptops and now officially available to OEMs for use in desktop systems as the Radeon HD 8000 Series. Official specifications for the Radeon HD 8700M & 8800M and Radeon HD 8500M & 8600M mobile GPUS and Radeon HD 8000 Series desktop GPUs have now been published, pointing towards a series that tops out with the AMD Radeon HD 8970: a 1GHz (1.05GHz boost) GPU teamed with 3GB of GDDR5 memory on a 1.5GHz clock offering 288GB/s bandwidth, 2,048 stream processors across 32 compute units for 4.3 teraflops of single-precision compute and 1.07 teraflops of double-precision compute, 128 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 colour ROP units on a PCI Express 3.0 x16 interface.
No reason not to get a 7970 now.
No reason not to get a 7970 now.
there is always something better for a few bucks more in a few weeks.Princeatom
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I'm gonna wait for the 8000 series
TheSoulCraft
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It's always good to wait for a new series. You never know, you might dissapoint yourself by buying a 7000 series GPU. The 7000 series is still great though, so if you don't mind being behind the latest tech go ahead.
