WELL I DROPED A DIME TODAY

[gibruce]

Newegg.com - XFX FX-797A-TNBC Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card HOPE IT WORKS WELL !

 

[Matt-aka-FAST]

damn let me know how it is.

 

[balls2dawall]

hopefully, Ati pulls their head out of their ass & give some good driver support; looks pretty bad ass

 

[Homeless]

oohhhh shiny

 

[hydrohybrid]

That should be a really nice card.

 

[Tom-A-Bomb]

HOPE IT WORKS WELL !

Fucking better for that price. Nice buy.

 

[Duke]

A Dime?

Did you get two?

 

[gibruce]

A Dime?

Did you get two?

lol no i dont work for pepsi !!

 

[TinderPlus]

WTF!!!!!!!!!

 

[Duke]

lol no i dont work for pepsi !!

LOL!! Well I'm glad you got you ONE and I hope it kicks butt!

 

[z242pilot]

I've got a similar card Newegg.ca - GIGABYTE GV-R797OC-3GD Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

i doubt you will be disappointed with it, and i haven't had driver or crashing issues.

 

[ChuckTheHammer]

I have that same card pilot, and I love it. Fast, quiet, and no crashes.

 

[Rocinante]

PassMark - Radeon HD 7970 - Price performance comparison

While it is hitting benchmarks close to the 580, but above the 570. Maybe AMD has finally got their head out of their ass when it comes to drivers?

 

[ChuckTheHammer]

Odd; those numbers are different from everything I have seen. Here is a sample

Charts, benchmarks 2012 VGA-GPGPU, 01 - 3DMark11 Performance

or, more to the point for us,
Charts, benchmarks 2012 VGA-GPGPU, 13 - Battlefield 3 DirectX 11 Performance

 

[Rocinante]

Some of those Numbers seems a little skewed to me, I see a lot of Nvidia cards there were produced not on list from TomsHardware. Not trying to discredit TomsHardware, but PCmark has large amounts of testing as it averages all the scores, not a one time test. I've seen articles say they benchmark a series of cards but don't rerun the assessed test after drivers have been released.

On another note, I have been looking at the 7970 from ASUS, it supports 6 monitors on one card. No Nvidia card currently does anything close to that. Except buying 3 seperate cards for $400+. For $600, the asus card looks like the way to go.

 

[ChuckTheHammer]

The Tom's results are pretty standard when you look around. Here is another example: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC WindForce review . The article also shows cooling and power draw. Nvidia I am sure will have something to say about this, but when I saw the performance/cooling combo I got the Gigabyte OC card since my monitor plays nicer with ATI.