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RE: Retakes? When did they ever lose it?
By animekenji on 3/8/2011 10:55:01 AM , Rating: 2
You deny the 5970 is faster than GTX580 and that the Asus Ares is the fastest video card ever made prior to the 6990?

RE: Retakes? When did they ever lose it?
By Beavermatic on 3/8/11, Rating: -1
RE: Retakes? When did they ever lose it?
By inighthawki on 3/8/2011 12:18:12 PM , Rating: 5
Regardless of how many GPU chips are on the card, it is a SINGLE card, and it WAS the fastest card. You sir are just being ignorant.

RE: Retakes? When did they ever lose it?
By ClownPuncher on 3/8/2011 12:51:25 PM , Rating: 3
Actually, all that really matters is price vs performance. Putting things in "classes" is just a trick people with penis envy use.

By inighthawki on 3/8/2011 12:56:26 PM , Rating: 2
Of course it's not in the same class, in the same way a Ferrari is in a different class than your average Ford, but that doesn't mean both cars are not single cars capable of being compared for performance. You cannot simply disqualify someone for putting more performance in a single package.

You need to understand there is a difference between fastest card and fastest chip . Nvidia quite certainly holds the crown for the fastest single chip, the 580, but what people really care about is the fastest CARD on the market.

RE: Retakes? When did they ever lose it?
By PrinceGaz on 3/8/2011 9:42:41 PM , Rating: 2
Has the concept of fastest single card escaped you?

Fastest single card does not mean fastest single card with one GPU. It means fastest single card regardless of what is on the card, so long as it is one card which fits into one socket. That's easy to understand, yes? You put one card into one socket, and attach your monitor, and then find out which card is fastest. You don't take the card apart to see if it has one or two GPUs underneath the heatsink.

Back in he days if 3dfx had their way, we'd have had crazy beasts like the Voodoo 5 6000 with 4 GPUs onboard! In fact, I think this review is the first time since looking at those pre-release samples I've actually burst into hysterical laughter whilst reading a graphics card review, at the sound-level of this monster. I had managed to contain my gasps at the power levels until then.

Graphics cards are going mad, and both AMD and nVidia are equally guilty of power escalation. I know GPU/GPGPU cores lend themselves to ever more transistors for ever more parallel work, but it is going out of control. I only hope game developers (Crytek!) don't target the very high end, as the very high end is now becoming silly, with said PCs consuming around a kilowatt of power when fully loaded.

By inighthawki on 3/9/2011 12:12:42 AM , Rating: 2

I take it you have not seen the new Unreal 3 engine from GDC then. Have a look:
It is rendered in real-time and looks quite beautiful imo, and requires 3x580s to render (though it apparently hasn't been optimized)

By animekenji on 3/8/2011 1:53:51 PM , Rating: 4
The title of the article was AMD retakes single card crown. In order to retake something, one first has to lose it. The 5970 has been the fastest single card since it was introduced. You should go back to school and take a few classes in reading comprehension because you are sorely lacking in that area.

