AMD: R9xx Speculation

Take a look at the resolution on the slide...

 

We are not talking about the slide, but about extreme resolutions, so that slide says nothing about what we are debating...

 

Heaven benchmark with the 6970 in Crossfire.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217424

 

Huh, I click on http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/treiber/grafik/ati-catalyst-komplettpaket/, click the link for the non-hosted Windows 7 64 bit drivers, and the firefox dl manager says they are from AMD and that they are the 10.12's.

Not trying to going OT, new Cat's get their own thread. But now I suppose that those with 6970's who've been posting will soon have new results. Assuming these are legit.

Great timing! (hopefully)

Edit: a word or two

 

They are legit, but they don't support the 6900 series, so I'm assuming they will release a hotfix for them.

 

Very interesting, thanks!

 

Given the FUD level we are seeing now, there's absolutely no chance they'd leak that out.

Frequncy, VLIW length, TMU, ROP, TS/Polygon,... they all can be analysed pretty accurately, well maybe not the SIMD count, but that's it. As long as there are samples out there, you can't stop the leak.

Features like SidePort is another story. You have to acquire a working Antilles board with proper drivers to know the difference. There are none spotted yet. So expecting AMD to leak unnecessary information is really unwise. As much as you want it, don't expect it.

 

And what about real games?

 

New performance number to add to the fray
http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Hardware/2D-3D/unique-radeon-dx11-sujet_866038_491.htm#t7698486

Which is noticeably higher then the ones from the other thread
I wonder if reviews will be released today or wednesday?

 

That makes me wonder if some of the leaks we have seen is from the 6950?

 

That are OC results 950mhz if Chrome translator is working correctly ..

 

Could be, we will find out later tomorrow either way! Hopefully some EU site breaks the embargo a few hours early and puts their articles up at midnight GMT so they don't have to wake up at 5am!

 

Here's another one:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/view_message/35199174

 

Those tests were done on an i7@4.4Ghz, while the one from harwareluxx have been done on a X6 @ 4GHz. And no, those aren't overclocked unless GPU-Z says so - he said CCC limits overclocking at 950mhz.

 

Seems ~10% faster than 570? Does that mean it is almost tied with 580?

 

"Watermarks are gay"

A little cherrypicking there (no tesselation in Metro, etc.), but nice results nonetheless, should tackle a GTX580 in some of those cases.

 

First 3Dmark is default, the other with 70 MHz OC.

 

It's 25% according to this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4665209&postcount=3121

 

Bite the hand that feeds you eh?

 

Ok, so we have lots of leaked benchies...anyone analyze the AF/texture shimmer/quality?
(I sure am impatient)