AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580

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Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3

Another strong showing puts the Radeon HD 7950 ahead of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580 at all three tested resolutions, with and without multi-sample anti-aliasing applied.

It’s worth noting that AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 remains at the top without anti-aliasing. However, once it’s applied, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 590 pulls into the lead.

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bak0n

More good GPU news. Keep em coming!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ;)
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esrever

I'd love to have one once kepler comes and these drop in price. Im gonna start saving.
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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!!
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hardcore_gamer

According to W1zzard's review, this card tops the Performance / Watt chart.
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primonatron

Are the Skyrim benchmarks on the v1.4 beta patch?

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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...

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.
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