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Does AMD even need to release a 7990 now?? They're beat before they even release it lol

Why do you say that? The 7970 and 680 are neck and neck in nearly everything. I have no doubt that the "7970X2" and the "680X2" will be roughly comparable as well.

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Cut amd some slack. Even though nividia always seems to preform better for the past two cards, amd has been the better bargain for price. :thumbsup:

Only have had one real driver issue in widows(ubuntu is a difrent story).

 

On a difrent note.

I hope this dual GPU card will run at full clocks. It'd give them a real edge.

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Why do you say that? The 7970 and 680 are neck and neck in nearly everything. I have no doubt that the "7970X2" and the "680X2" will be roughly comparable as well.

I guess you're right, I doubt AMD will allow themselves to lose in the the price war again, especially being second to release. The 680 core is just so amazing with it's performance/watt, that's my favorite aspect of it :happy: . I don't think they'll have to gimp the 690 like they did with the 590 so I'm actually excited about another 295 quality dual core from them.

 

Cut amd some slack. Even though nividia always seems to preform better for the past two cards, amd has been the better bargain for price. :thumbsup:

Only have had one real driver issue in widows(ubuntu is a difrent story).

 

On a difrent note.

I hope this dual GPU card will run at full clocks. It'd give them a real edge.

I would cut AMD some slack, just surprised by how great a release the 680 had.

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<br>I guess you're right, I doubt AMD will allow themselves to lose in the the price war again, especially being second to release. The 680 core is just so amazing with it's performance/watt, that's my favorite aspect of it  <img src="http://forums.overclockersclub.com/public/style_emoticons/default/happy.gif" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=":happy:"> . I don't think they'll have to gimp the 690 like they did with the 590 so I'm actually excited about another 295 quality dual core from them. <br><br>
<br><br>Ivy I'm sorry to say... the GTX 295 wasn't a dual core :lol:

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Ivy I'm sorry to say... the GTX 295 wasn't a dual core :lol:

 

It was a dual GPU core card

 

I don't think they'll have to gimp the 690 like they did with the 590 so I'm actually excited about another 295 quality dual core from them.

 

The 295 was "gimped". The GTX295 was not a true 2x GTX285 which the ASUS Mars I was, the GTX590 was not a true 2x GTX580 which the ASUS Mars II was, the HD6990 was not a true 2x HD6970 like the ASUS Ares was and the HD4870x2 was not a true 2x HD4890. Looks like you never get a true "quality" dual GPU card from Nvidia - You have to wait for a custom ASUS card to come out to gain access to the full clock speeds/SP that two fastest performing single GPU's would have in SLI/CF

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He said DUAL CORE CARD, I corrected him.

 

Yes it is a dual core card. Just like a GTX680 is a single core card. Are you saying that "dual core" is a term only used for CPU's or something ? Because everyone knows the 295 is a dual GPU card and not a dual CPU card. A core is a core, a GPU is a core or dual core and a CPU is a core or dual core or quad core. Im confused at you statement ?

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Yes it is a dual core card. Just like a GTX680 is a single core card. Are you saying that "dual core" is a term only used for CPU's or something ? Because everyone knows the 295 is a dual GPU card and not a dual CPU card. A core is a core, a GPU is a core or dual core and a CPU is a core or dual core or quad core. Im confused at you statement ?

 

When people usually refer to dual core etc. they mean a processor with multiple cores(MCM), in the 295s case it's 1 Processor, 1 Core per card.

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When people usually refer to dual core etc. they mean a processor with multiple cores(MCM), in the 295s case it's 1 Processor, 1 Core per card.

 

Well you do know what GPU stands for don't you? Graphics Processing Unit. And CPU is Central Processing Unit. So i'd say you just shot your own argument in the foot as they are both processors. :lol:

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Lol, come on guys. The proper term for two GPU's on a single PCB is Dual GPU, not Dual GPU cores. Nvidia cards have CUDA cores, which the GTX 680 has 1536 CUDA cores, and the HD 7970 has 2048 cores. A CPU, like an i7 2600K has 4 cores and with hyperthreading, 8 threads.

 

Anyways, the 7990 (edit: didn't mean 6990) probably won't overclock better than the GTX 690. Going by how much power consumption and heat the HD 7970's output, and how much better the GTX 680's are.

 

What AMD really needs to do is get into the implementation of better algorithms for anti-aliasing like Nvidia is doing. Nvidia's using the "work smarter, not harder" idea while AMD is trying for better hardware and trying to brute force its rendering using outdated AA methods. With 16xQ CSAA, it looks better than 4x MSAA, and performs the same. You can see how much better Batman: Arkham City looks and performs with GTX 580's and GTX 680's with 16x CSAA over HD 7970's with 8x MSAA.

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