Only time will tell

CrackinDomes

I see after the 7xx series came out. AMD said nah **** it scrap the 8***. Which I knew would be the case to drop there 20nm chip and show the world a BEAST of a card.

Also the good thing about them dropping this. Is the 7970's should drop in price which in turn I will buy a 2nd one if not a third for tri-fire.

http://www.maximumpc.com/rounding_leaked_specs_amds_radeon_hd_9970_graphics_card

vKonrad

Ok Dozerman

Grabster

Instead of getting more 7970s, you should sell your current one and get a 9970 when it comes out in the next coming months.

CrackinDomes

Grabster wrote: »

Instead of getting more 7970s, you should sell your current one and get a 9970 when it comes out in the next coming months.

All depends on two things: A) Specs hold up to what they are saying they are. Price.

asdfafxxxx

CrackinDomes wrote: »

All depends on two things: A) Specs hold up to what they are saying they are. Price.

regardless you should wait, the 7970 will only go down in price when that card comes out and if it's a lot better you can just purchase that instead of losing money and paying a higher price.

awrherp

Sure, keep thinking that.

780 > 9970

CrackinDomes

awrherp wrote: »

Sure, keep thinking that.

780 > 9970

Compared to the Titan and even the GTX 780, the 9970 looks promising, if not downright impressive.

over_rated

9970 is in 3 years. By then Maxwell will be out. 3 way CF/SLI doesn't scale well especially with an 8350 being the bottleneck.

Grabster

over_rated wrote: »

9970 is in 3 years. By then Maxwell will be out. 3 way CF/SLI doesn't scale well especially with an 8350 being the bottleneck.

How do you know it's coming in 3 years? O right, you don't.

CrackinDomes

Grabster wrote: »

How do you know it's coming in 3 years? O right, you don't.

His post are just always worth a laugh.

Grabster

CrackinDomes wrote: »

His post are just always worth a laugh.

I wonder who and how much he paid to build his computer.

over_rated

Why would it be this or next year? Nobody is going to get 20nm before 2014. How do you know it isn't coming out in 3 years? It's all speculation. And where did you get that they're scrapping the 8*** series?
The specs are already leaked.

CrackinDomes

over_rated wrote: »

Why would it be this or next year? Nobody is going to get 20nm before 2014. How do you know it isn't coming out in 3 years? It's all speculation. And where did you get that they're scrapping the 8*** series?
The specs are already leaked.

From what I read on the AMD site. The 8*** is not totally scrapped its being used as OEM parts. But won't hit the market for the genral consumer to buy.

CrackinDomes

over_rated wrote: »

Why would it be this or next year? Nobody is going to get 20nm before 2014. How do you know it isn't coming out in 3 years? It's all speculation. And where did you get that they're scrapping the 8*** series?
The specs are already leaked.

As you were saying?

http://decryptedtech.com/news/amd-hawaii-chips-to-hit-the-market-this-autumn

Nvidia has already given up the fight and announced cancellation of the GK114 Kepler refreshments for the current year, and AMD decided to take advantage of the situation and release their Hawaii/Volcanic Islands series of chips, which means they will release the products based on those chips by the end of the year.
The new generation of chips, Volcanic Islands, will be superior to the current and future competition from Nvidia, at least when it comes to features according to the latest DirectX standard. Nvidia has canceled Maxwell chips for next spring, which will give AMD sufficient time to prepare possibly necessary responses to future Maxwell for which has already been mentioned that it probably will not support DirectX 11.2.

Nvidia is currently in a bad situation also because the current process of development can not be sustained in the long term, and AMD continues to seriously go further forward with the GPU and APU solutions.

Grabster

CrackinDomes wrote: »

As you were saying?

http://decryptedtech.com/news/amd-hawaii-chips-to-hit-the-market-this-autumn

Nvidia has already given up the fight and announced cancellation of the GK114 Kepler refreshments for the current year, and AMD decided to take advantage of the situation and release their Hawaii/Volcanic Islands series of chips, which means they will release the products based on those chips by the end of the year.
The new generation of chips, Volcanic Islands, will be superior to the current and future competition from Nvidia, at least when it comes to features according to the latest DirectX standard. Nvidia has canceled Maxwell chips for next spring, which will give AMD sufficient time to prepare possibly necessary responses to future Maxwell for which has already been mentioned that it probably will not support DirectX 11.2.

Nvidia is currently in a bad situation also because the current process of development can not be sustained in the long term, and AMD continues to seriously go further forward with the GPU and APU solutions.

Maxwell not coming in spring?!?!?!? FML