AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580
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CrossFire And SLI: 3DMark 11
Two Radeon HD 7950s in CrossFire maintain their lead over a pair of GeForce GTX 580s. A couple of Radeon HD 7970s are also pretty awesome-looking though, especially when you consider the only two faster configurations employ four GPUs each!
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Im not Paying $450 for barely better then GTX 580 performance a year after its released. They will have to knock that down to like $300, $250 for a 2gb version when Nvidia releases their next gen cards. Wait those money grubers out imo.Reply
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thesnappyfingers stm I was thinking the same thing. But then agian it is still cheaper, more efficient compared to the gtx 580. Still, I am waiting it out till kepler.Reply -
rmpumper 7950/7970 should be priced ~$50+ of 6950/6970 prices. So as it is now, if nvidia's gtx680 will be better than 7970 they will price it at >$600? That's a load of crock.Reply -
Derbixrace great value compared to the 7970 because you can OC it to be faster than it on stock voltage and even further with voltage tweaking ;)Reply -
esrever I'd love to have one once kepler comes and these drop in price. Im gonna start saving.Reply -
It beats the GTX580 one on one in most benchies and that's not taking into account the overclocking headroom these things have, they're also power friendlier and with XFX, cooler, quieter and expected to be cheaper so what's the problem? Me thinks me smell's NV fanboys!!Reply
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dragonsqrrl rmpumper7950/7970 should be priced ~$50+ of 6950/6970 prices. So as it is now, if nvidia's gtx680 will be better than 7970 they will price it at >$600? That's a load of crock.Every rumor and leak I've seen so far on gk104 pricing seems to indicate otherwise...Reply
http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-gk104-kepler-gpu-priced-at-299-230-/
According to Nvidia's AIB partners the initial price set for the first gk104 based graphics card is $300. Of course this can go up or down based on the competition. Unfortunately, I have the feeling it'll be going up.