Radeon HD 7950 vs. GeForce GTX 680 On Linux

[sonnet]

How could the reviewer overclock the HD7950?
I have a HD 7850 and i couldn't find any tool to change the frequencies of the card.

[Vadi]

i've got a 560 (so a step below a '70) and the performance is quite acceptable in Wine, but I haven't tried Skyrim. It seems there's no demo so I can't tell much, because atm Oblivion is being played through (on highest possible settings and non-laggy fps, not sure how get a counter up).

[ZombieNo7]

One thing I didn't see discussed all that much here was performance in wine. I'm actually debating between the 7950/70 and the 670, and I'm thoroughly on the fence at this point due to these benchmarks. I play a ton of games in wine, mostly stuff like Skyrim, and I'd like to know which is better in that respect. Just about all of the reviews and benchmarks I've read favor the 670 in Windows, but that's Windows, not wine. If the fglrx drivers are improving at the rate that the Catalyst drivers are, and the cards are as overclockable as they seem, it looks like the 7950/70 is the way to go in Linux, but I'm still unsure. Anyone here actually use either one?

[b15hop]

I have one of these 680's now. But Not using it with Linux. Seems a bit of a waste to me. Nothing really takes advantage of the card....

the last 2 sentences wasn't so much out of limits and even Bridgman found a funny part in it:
the point is there are so many thinks without any scope/room to move and Bridgman can't do nothing about it because of this its "Trivial"
and the "Trivial" part is something like this: he can only make sure Future AMD products become more open-source friendly

because of this there is a high chance to get opensource functionality on the "VCE" unit and the ( scope/room to move) for the UVD1 and UVD2 and maybe UVD3 unit is near by ZERO.
the hardware pipeline of amd is 3-4 years this means amd need up to 4 years to chance hardware

2013 this will be history and people can use opensource on amd hardware without "pain" LOL

I LoL'd really hard to find that you're now the "Conspiracy Leader" ... xD

[chithanh]

2013 this will be history and people can use opensource on amd hardware without "pain" LOL

I will believe that when I can see it, not one second earlier.

...the success rate of the Phoronix Catalyst news reporting is like 99% and has been for years.

2013: A Good Year For Open-Source AMD

Any questions? (Well technically it is not about Catalyst, but still)

[TobiSGD]

2013 this will be history and people can use opensource on amd hardware without "pain" LOL

I will believe that when I can see it, not one second earlier.

[aceman]

if i was bridgeman i would even ever respond to any forum post Q has been in. its like, whats the point.

Hey, why are you so biased? Yes, Q's posts are often out of limits. But not recently and surely not his comment 19. It was on topic and informative and I'd say even true. So what is the problem? No problem for those who can strip out the last 2 sentences

[Kano]

Yes AMD is still working on problems with the new design. In theory it has got a hardware h264 ENCODER like kepler but there is still no software that can access it.

[Luke_Wolf]

Okay... but that shows that, on average, the 680 was faster than the 7970 at Mass Effect 3. I'm assuming the 7950 wouldn't fare much better.

It wasn't just AnandTech though. Hexus.net, Tom's Hardware... it was pretty much across the board IIRC.

Not so fast, while single monitor other than Deus Ex gave Nvidia the lead (although the AMD card tended to have higher highs), Multimonitor which tests the extremes of what a card can do gave AMD the lead.

It's also worth noting that GCN is a completely new architecture which they really haven't tuned all of the performance out of yet so tests from 3 months ago fail to give the whole story. So while Nvidia has probably gotten most of the performance out of their 680 because it's an evolutionary and a simplification step off of Fermi, AMD actually has some real play left in terms of optimization.

[johnc]

Because Anandtech is oh so known to be the unbiased reviewer whose is the bastion of integrity and definitely not taking money from Intel and Nvidia... not... Try HardOCP or some other more legitimate reviewer site that's not to be considered in the same context as TheBrightSideOfNews http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/..._card_review/3

Okay... but that shows that, on average, the 680 was faster than the 7970 at Mass Effect 3. I'm assuming the 7950 wouldn't fare much better.

It wasn't just AnandTech though. Hexus.net, Tom's Hardware... it was pretty much across the board IIRC.