HD 7xxx offers twice the performance as previous generation!

gmcizzle

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According to that wikipedia page, the 6990 produces 5099 GFLOPS vs. the 7970 which does 4096 GFLOPS. So, even the fastest single GPU card of the 7xxx series does not have as much throughput as a current 6990. Faster? Yes. Twice as fast? No.
 

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GFLOPS isn't necessarily a good way to measure GPU performance. Performance is best gauged by the pixel/texture fillrate.

The HD 7970 has a pixel fillrate of 64 GP/s and texture fillrate of 128 GT/s

The HD 6970 pixel/texture fillrate is less than half that number.

Maybe a 120% boost in performance? Oh, and don't forget super-fast XDR2 memory.
 

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I stopped reading at Wikipedia..

Wikipedia - anyone can go in and change whatever the hell they want.

brb gonna go change it to "HD 7000 will more than triple all the performance of quad 590 sli. "
 

+ 1 jillion. we will probably see roughly 30% increase in performance from current gen imo. I dont see us having double or even above 50% increase in performance any time soon
 

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The inherent problems with Moore's law is making it difficult to increase processor performance significantly.