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Benchmark Results: Sandra 2012

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Although it’s less likely that these more entry-level cards will be used for general-purpose computing than the Radeon HD 7900-series boards, it’s interesting to see the Juniper-based Radeon HD 5770 take second-place in OpenCL floating point throughput, ahead of the Cape Verde-based boards that center on an architecture designed to improve compute. Testing double-precision performance, on the other hand, does favor the GCN-equipped 7700-series cards.

Nvidia’s cards fail this test under OpenCL, but DirectCompute does work.

AMD’s Radeon HD 7770 takes a commanding first-place finish in both the cryptographic and hashing benchmarks.

Although other cards beat it in hashing performance, the Radeon HD 7750 easily secures a second-place finish in the AES256 hashing test.

It’s pretty easy to tell GPUs with 256-bit memory buses apart from the one with a 192-bit bus and the others with 128-bit buses.

Similarly, all of the PCI Express 2.0 cards move 6 GB/s or less across the interface. Meanwhile, both Radeon HD 7700-series boards are PCI Express 3.0-capable, facilitating a little extra throughput.

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Derbixrace 02/15/2012 3:52 AM
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the 7750 will be a GREAT card compared to the 6670 for those who have a shitty 300w PSU and wants a nice GPU.

hardcore_gamer 02/15/2012 3:53 AM
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I hope the price of 7770 comes down to $130. That is where this card belongs.

phamhlam 02/15/2012 4:03 AM
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dragonsqrrl 02/15/2012 4:06 AM
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jprahman 02/15/2012 4:09 AM
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The fight shaping up between all these new AMD cards and Kepler is looking to be a good one. Time to just sit back with some popcorn and enjoy the show... while planning a new build for when the price war breaks out.

esrever 02/15/2012 4:17 AM
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Seems ok, New stuff ussually cost more. The 6770 being more expensive than the 5770, the 6870 being more expensive than the 5850 ect.

I'd expect prices to go down once supply goes up and demand goes down.

confish21 02/15/2012 4:25 AM
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What a sad release. I'm not even excited for Pitcairn now! I foresee the $170 6870 to hold its own.

anonymous 02/15/2012 4:30 AM
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This is ridiculous. Man this sucks, i've been waiting for the 7770 since early last year, and this crap is what they release?

What_were_they_thinking?

wicketr 02/15/2012 4:32 AM
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Well....here's hoping for a good 7850/7870 release on March 6th. Not much here worth spending money on IMO.

buzznut 02/15/2012 4:36 AM
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This is unfortunate, considering the naming scheme. The 4770, 5770, and 6770 were/are all good budget cards that performed above where they were priced. Bang for buck has always been the draw here, but that 7770 is overpriced. Hopefully AMD will see this fumble; I agree at $120-130 this card makes a lot more sense.

I'd actually like to see the HD 7750 at a lower price too, as we know these prices will drop over time but I still think this is slightly high for launch.

fistoffoo 02/15/2012 4:42 AM
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mattmock 02/15/2012 4:42 AM
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gti88 02/15/2012 4:55 AM
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stm1185 02/15/2012 5:02 AM
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mattmock 02/15/2012 5:06 AM
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stm1185 :
These prices are terrible, even compared to the current competition and not the inevitable huge price drop to compete with Nvidia's next gen. 7770 giving less then GTX460 performance at $160, when in what 2-3 months Nvidia will probably be giving that performance level for under $99. 7770 is crap.


Amd may be taking advantage of their unopposed release of the 7000 series to sell their cards at high margins. They may just be waiting for the new Nvidia cards to come out before they drop prices.

ztr 02/15/2012 5:09 AM
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scallywanker 02/15/2012 5:16 AM
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I was hoping the 7770 would provide a little more umph. I'm running a 460GTX-SLI setup, and hoped that ATI... er AMD's mid-range bracket in Crossfire would provide a significant boost, worthy of an upgrade. With the 460 more than hanging in there at stock speeds, I can't see a dual-card upgrade in the future, unless Kepler just absolutely blows this up at these price points. Even the 7950 and 7970 are a hard sell with limited availability and price-gouging.

AMD is like the Chicago Cubs. Even non-fans want them to succeed, but they can never seem to get their act together.

a4mula 02/15/2012 5:23 AM
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MattMock :
Amd may be taking advantage of their unopposed release of the 7000 series to sell their cards at high margins. They may just be waiting for the new Nvidia cards to come out before they drop prices.



I agree somewhat, but I don't think it's the enthusiast crowd they're targeting here. It's the OEM crapfest that pushes the latest trash onto unknowing consumers while slapping a gaming pc title on their box.

AMD had an edge with the Cayman because its performance was unopposed in the single gpu realm. With these cards that's nowhere close to the truth. In the past you could at least expect to get new DX support newer shading support or anything that would give the current model a unique edge over it's predecessor. I'm just not seeing that with this release. Then to top it off AMD is continuing the trend they started with the 7970 of an over-inflated launch price. While that might have flown with the cards that were untouchable, it's not going to fly here when you can spend the same money for more peformance, period.

I feel bad for pre-built pc buyers that are unaware of things like this, such a ripoff.

scallywanker 02/15/2012 5:28 AM
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scallywanker :
AMD's mid-range bracket



Confused by the launch order and prices, I mistook this for their mid-range, and not their budget range. It's better, but not by much.

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