That is when you point out the market share of various monitor sizes, and the fact that almost everybody doing eyefinity does it on 1920x1080 monitors, on a tiny few do it with 2560x1440 monitors and almost nobody does it with 2560x1600 monitors.

With luck, you get to point out that the poster making the BS argument only has 1920x1080 monitors in their setup.

If they persist, point out the market share once again, and ask if they believe the market share will change enough to support their view within the lifetime of the Radeon graphics card they are trying to pimp. Be sure to point out that if the market share were to suddenly change then nvidia's 4 gb GTX 680/670's would be even better placed than the radeons to take advantage.

Check this out,as many review sites have already mentioned xfire needs some refinement
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2253819

Yes, I've been quietly following crossfires' GCN woes for a while now.

Screen tearing is pathetic with Eyefinity on just one card


And in that thread, there are some genuinely stupid comments about "fixing" CrossFire

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4828/s ... dex14.html

Tweaktown got ahold of a Sapphire Toxic edition and it's definitely faster than the GTX 680 at the costs of power usage, heat and noise. This is the one that i am hoping to evaluate.

It is nearly as loud as a 6990
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4828/s ... dex16.html

It will be interesting to watch Nvidia respond.

More price cuts on the way for all 7000 series cards. How will nvidia respond?

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/amd-announces-new-pricing-structure-for-7000-series-cards/

If you want my guess, Nvidia will bring out their Ultra or Ti editions to regain the crown


The GTX 680 Ultra/Ti will sell for $500
 The Radeon HD 7970 will be available for $429 USD, down from $449 ($499 for GHz ed.)
Overclocked GTX 680 will be $450 and regular GTXes, $429
The Radeon HD 7950 will be available for $349 USD, down from $399.
The GTX 670 Ti will be available for $379-$399 and the regular 670s will etail for $349
The AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition will now be available for $299 USD, down from $349 at launch.
The GTX 660 Ti will be available for $329/$299 depending on clocks

There's my predictions

Do you think the ti versions will just have higher clocks? Because it seems nvidias cards don't have much more headroom. Looking at cards like the evga 680 classified users arent getting much more performance then a overclocked 680.

I think gk104 is pretty tapped out as far as performance goes, I don't think they can squeeze much more out of it.

i got a nice performance increase when i overclocked my GTX 680 +175/600MHz (1181/3604MHz)
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=29157

The secret is in overclocking the vRAM and most of Nvidia's partners have just concentrated on (weak) core overclocks
Here is my GTX 680 (1181/3604) at max OC verses a faster-than-GCN HD 7970 (1200/1575MHz)
--- i think the overclocked GTX 680 at nearly 1200MHz holds it own pretty well against an overclocked 7970 at 1200MHz, nevermind GCN's 1050MHz. If Nvidia can overclock the GTX 680 to 1100Hz as the base clock, the crown will probably go decisively back to Nvidia

Apoppin you going to do one of your driver comparisons? It would be interesting to see how much performance improved from around the time you did that evaluation till now.