gtx 690

Ankur said:
See here

7970 CF vs 690
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/588?vs=586

7970 CF vs 680 SLI
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/588?vs=585

The 7970 CF performs better than 680 SLI or single 690. The 7970 single card is slower than both as we seen before, but in Crossfire it is faster and also 50$ cheaper.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-690-benchmark,3193-6.html

That is not true. GTX 680 SLI is fastest than 7970 CF on BattleField 3. Take look at link i post.
 
Ankur said:
According to benchmarks, 7970 CF beats the 690 and 680 SLI, So probably 7990 will beat 690, so at last 690 price comes down.
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Wow, I hadn't seen the benchmarks (until just now)... That's surprising, great scalability. I have to say they're about tied, with the CF 7970's winning some, and the SLI 680 winning some. Then again though, I'm assuming the 7970 GPU's on the 7990 won't be fully fledged 7970's, similar to the 590... Guess we'll have to wait and see :D

I hope AMD comes out on top and creates some competition
 
Mr.Moose said:
Wow, I hadn't seen the benchmarks (until just now)... That's surprising, great scalability. I have to say they're about tied, with the CF 7970's winning some, and the SLI 680 winning some. Then again though, I'm assuming the 7970 GPU's on the 7990 won't be fully fledged 7970's, similar to the 590... Guess we'll have to wait and see :D

I hope AMD comes out on top and creates some competition
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Not all Linux user would buying AMD video card because Linux does not support this video card. Most of Linux user will buying Geforce.
 
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Ankur said:
According to benchmarks, 7970 CF beats the 690 and 680 SLI, So probably 7990 will beat 690, so at last 690 price comes down.
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While it's true that 7970CF wins some benchmarks, about every review on the planet says the 680>7970, 680SLi >7970CF, and 690>7970CF.

Look what else Anandtech said about 7970CF:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5805/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review-ultra-expensive-ultra-rare-ultra-fast/19

Unfortunately we’re going to have to put AMD out of the running here; as we’ve seen in games like Crysis and Metro the 7970 in Crossfire has a great deal of potential, but as it stands Crossfire is simply too broken overall to recommend.
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Even if the 7970s had equal performance in general, their feature set puts them out of the running: no PhysX, no adaptive Vsynch, no TXAA, no CP FXAA, no CP AO, worse 3D, no anti microstutter.

AMD has been napping while the NVIDIA folks have been making the cards everyone will be buying this year. On STEAM it shows 9/10 flagship cards sold in April were 680s.

NVIDIA Focus Group
 
harry clemance said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-y0wTesyk&list=UUcx2OUQ9OGdL4FTexi0h35Q&index=1&feature=plcp
As far as I can tell the 7970cf is at a par with the 690 but the 680sli beats all
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On the games CF works with there aren't many where the 7970CF isn't in the ballpark for performance.

The problems for 7970CF are:
1. CF itself isn't as good
2. CF has more microstutter, as shown on German websites
3. AMD doesn't have the feature set, or even close to it
4. The value on 7970s is dropping like a stone. (i.e. when it comes time to resell what you save now you'll lose then)
5. Worse power/heat/noise

Basically all I see going for 7970s right now is compute, and if you're one of the ten guys with 75X16 resolution, 3GB VRAM could come in handy.

If TweakTown's review of the 670 proves accurate, as of next week there won't be many AMD cards over $350 leaving the stores at all. It's going to be a very tough year for AMD with Ivy bridge on one front, and Kepler on the other.
 
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