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>old as fuck yet still relevant to this day
What went so right?
>>55401777
Tbh my machine still runs a 7870 and I don't have much trouble with it. Granted, my monitor only runs at 1440x900.
>>55401787
Same, no issues
>>55401777
4 digits > 3
the trick is to either play at smallish resolutions or just not buy into the 84xSSAA 600fps 8K texture mod scene and realize that a game has more worth than its graphic presentation.
>>55401777
7970? Forget that. I still rock 5870s in Crossfire.
>3 years old
>first gcn 1.1 card ever, so its blessed by new updates
>still faster than a ps4
>literally runs better as time pass by
>>55401795
>4 digits over 3
correct
>2005 hardware
>plays gta v and rise of the tomb raider
What went so right?
>>55401910
PowerPC and ATi graphics
>>55401934
>ati
im pretty sure it was a modified version of a 7600gt
>>55401963
360 has ATI. PS3 has nvidia.
>>55401963
No, the 360 has a modified...I want to say X1900?
>tfw u can literally run VR on your 7850
>>55402009
X1800, but it was a lot more advanced than any of the actual R520 graphics cards and was actually ATI's first unified shader GPU.
>>55401777
can't play mgs5 maxed
can't play da:i maxed
can't play tw3 maxed
can't play metro maxed
just grabbed a fury for €300 because I simply can't stand it
it's worse since I got a 144hz monitor, now going under 90 fps bothers me a LOT it just isn't smooth
heck even going to the movies and seeing all this motion blur added the 24 fps films disturbs me
>>55402107
>turning on shitty settings that don't add anything worthwhile visually
Modern games literally look better on low settings everything except for textures.
>>55402169
Retard.
>>55402169
this is silly are you high or something
>>55401777
You mean what the fuck went so god damn wrong.
>US based companies spin off their foundries to incompetent chinks
>no one can actually shrink the process
>languish for years
>>55402107
Why are /v/ migrants so bitter?
I've never seen anywhere else on the internet that was so whiny about graphics.
Shit, most games barely look different between high and low anymore.
>>55402377
Are you using "/v/ migrant" as an insult here ? How could that be relevent since the thread is obviously about the use of the HH 7970 in video games (maybe also bitcoins idk).
I want to see the best that a game has to offer, wether it be gameplay or graphics.
How am I bitter for wanting the best possible graphics the game as to offer ?
How can you even say such non-sense as
>most games barely look different between high and low anymore.
I went from HD4890 to a HD7970 and I saw the difference when I could dial up those graphics settings
I went from HD7970 to a R9 Fury and the same thing happened.
>>55402495
And don't even get me started on framerate
>>55402495
r9....
house fire...
i could see a difference to when my case became a furnace
Well, my R9 280 is supposed to just be a 7950, and it still handles most everything around high at 1080p, and I don't plan on upgrading until it medium becomes a struggle. People are too eager to drop lots of money for only modest gains.
>>55401843
>faster than a console with a laptop CPU that still manages to overheat
AMDrones really setting the bar low
>>55402672
This. Gtx680 4gb here, still runs everything great on high settings.
Can't tell the difference between high and ultra without a side by side comparison, but it's a bit more noticeable going from high to medium.
>>55401873
What's the point in spending $500+ on a card and not just going for the flagship?
>>55401777
GCN aged well while Kepler aged like milk.
>>55401910
>>plays gta v and rise of the tomb raider
yeah on the lowest possible settings at like 10fps
i have a 7950
only reason I can see to upgrade would be when I junk my 1080p monitor (I broke the other, ran dual obviously)
Probably for a 2k
>>55402829
I've noticed that too. Before I built my desktop, I was playing everything on a laptop at low - medium, and the jump to (at the time) ultra was incredible. Going between ultra and high is maybe just a bit of aliasing or slightly fuzzier shading.
>>55402169
The grapes man, it's always the grapes
>>55401777
Bought this and an i5 2500k around five years ago, haven't looked back since. Still runs every game I throw at it on the highest settings.
>>55402169
b-buh muh lens flare, rain and smoke
Can anyone help me I'm trying to find this card?
>>55402107
>motion blur added
24fps film is the superior frame rate for film.
Anything higher on that size of screen looks literally retarded.
>>55404622
That is VERY clearly homemade, spaz
>>55404593
What a good time to buy wasn't it?
>>55404622
>homemade aurebesh scribbled on the card
>tfw I know what that is and what it says
gtx 470
>>55404622
GTX470, says right on the top
all the shit from chinkpadgeneral?
>>55401777
my 6970 still goes alright
>>55404636
Just because your brain isnt used to it doesn't mean it's worse. I have seen the Hobbit in 48FPS and it looked really good because you could actually see what was going on in action scenes, instead of all that flashing across the camera.
When will I have to upgrade my 3470 and 970?
>>55404663
Yeah, best tech purchase I've ever made.
>>55402495
>How am I bitter for wanting the best possible graphics the game as to offer ?
because you're like an audiophile, more concerned with whether or not your expensive hardware will let you see your ballsack pushing up against your pants than the actual game itself, attempting to rationalize your bitterness with "well I just want the BEST"
most normal people don't really give a fuck and don't throw a tantrum when they have to turn down a setting or miss out on half a pixel of resolution in the event they sit around and ogle their reflection in the water
i still use my 7950 and feel 0 need to upgrade
>what, under 60fps?
>switch some settings to high instead of ultra
done
sapphire vapor-x masterrace
>>55402860
>GCN aged well while Kepler aged like milk.
not really. the 290x used to beat the 780ti when it launched, now the 780ti smokes the 290x and is pretty close to outperforming an OCed 290x (390x).
only problem with these cards seems to be that nvidia overpriced them and didn't include enough vram, but they've been relavent for almost 4 years now.
>>55405056
kepler aged like shit stop shilling
>>55405103
>2560x1440
read my post again, idiot:
> ... didn't include enough vram ...
anyone who uses a card from january 2013 with 3gb of vram for 1440p gaming is an idiot. even the latest and greatest cards struggle to get good performance in 1440p and 4k in some games. the 780ti still has performance on par with a $500 card almost 4 years later.
>>55405125
the 1080p one is the same story, again stop shilling kepler is garbage.
>>55405125
here now stop shilling with cherrypicked benchmarks
>>55405125
i have a 3gb card and my vram rarely pushes past 2500mb in shit like bf4 and gtav at 1440p. haven't played doom yet.
>>55404767
Don't mind the animemes here. They are so used to shitty animation cells being duplicated in their manga cartoons that they've forgotten what real life actually looks like. 48fps is close enough to true vision that it should be standardized, any thing less is fucking cave writing flip books. Just bc it's what has been normal doesn't mean it's right.
>>55405149
>relative performance
nice meme raja
>>55405155
Gta v has been confirmed to use 4gb at 1080p...
>>55404767
>Hobbit
shit movie son
My 7850 is still going fine.
>>55405158
relative performance shows a combined percentage between all tested games, it literally cant be cherrypicked, but hey i guess that's why nvidia shills hate them
>>55404593
>2500k
Fuck yes best cpu ever. It's stayed competitive for longer than even the Q6600. Intel plateaued after sandy bridge.
>>55405161
>Gta v has been confirmed to use 4gb at 1080p
probably when you enable worthless shit like super high res shadows and turn off models downscaling at a distance, but i'm not autistic.
>still using a GTX 460
>no problem playing modern games
>>55405210
You're not autistic so you post false information on an anonymous image board?
>>55405197
>relative performance shows a combined percentage between all tested games, it literally cant be cherrypicked, but hey i guess that's why nvidia shills hate them
the problem with relative performance is that one game driving down performance for that card can tank the average, which is probably what happened with the image you posting, since you avoided linking the original review
TPU's relative performance is also unreliable as hell, since not every card is re-tested unless it's also listed in individual benchmarks shown in the review.
>>55405230
yeah there's no reason to upgrade. i finally upgraded to a fairly decent build since my HD 4890 was dying and a core 2 duo wasn't cutting it anymore, but that shit was about 8 years old and could STILL run gta v.
games have been advancing at a crawl since like 2011 and you're retarded to upgrade every 2/3 years.
>>55405277
>the problem with relative performance is that one game driving down performance for that card can tank the average
A single game will barely have an effect on the average.
> since not every card is re-tested unless it's also listed in individual benchmarks shown in the review.
This is a lie.
>>55405277
>the problem with relative performance is that one game driving down performance for that card can tank the average
Which is exactly what would happen if you bought the card and played that game, wait you dont do that. You bought it to show of your benchmarks.
>>55405297
This. My HD5870 still gives me 70fps in gta v 1080p and runs bf4 at 50-70 fps depending on the map
>>55405297
>upgraded my 290x to a gtx 1080
shut up fag, don't tell me what to do
>>55401873
is that windows 8.1?
>>55402838
Overreaching poor people who shouldn't spend all their income on a GPU but do anyways.
>>55401777
Not gimping their cards like Nvidia
I am still using a 660 ti. It's OK if you don't mind playing new meme games at high, plus most of the time I only play Overwatch and HOTS.
>>55401777
well for starters the card was seriously underclocked...giving it a seriously big headroom for oc
>>55401777
I got a 7970 and it runs beautifully
I gotta upgrade eventually though
>>55401839
this guy gets it.
best price:performance. everrrrrrrrrrrrr
two 2gb 6870s is also bae af even for 2k res
>>55405277
>being this btfo
I guess you're not getting paid for the day, Sanjay. :^)
I have a 6850 and sure enough I can't play fallout 4 but whatevs
Well the truth is I have a 280x laying there gathering dust until the day I sell it but I'm socially retarded and I don't know how to tell the current buyer to hurry the fuck up and that I'm not willing to spend an entire month not selling this because he might buy it.
>>55404947
So you intentionaly dumbed down my point, moved the goal post, talked as if you represent "most people" then finally tried to make me childlish saying I'm throwing tantums in order to better suit your argument which is
>it's perfectly fine to play games at low settings because you have outdated hardware and if you don't do this you must be some kind weirdo
The comparision with audiophile is like your previous posts, totally stupid.
I guess by "audiophile" you refer to people who think they can ear high frequencies and spend thousands in placebo equipment.
Placebo is the keyword here. Buying a $1000 digital cable is placebo.
Buying a R9 Fury going from a HD 7970 to play your favourite game maxed when you could only use the lowest settings with bland textures, low poly models, low draw distance and low framerate is not.
You are the one trying to "rationalize" a not-so-rational behaviour. It's almost like I'm detecting hate in here but I may be going far.
>>55405230
tfw gtx 460 started to bluescreen occasionally
>>55401777
>Released in fucking 2007
>Just now have to replace it for 1080p gaming, was crushing everything but the newest games on at least medium
>They will never make a better series of cards than the 8 series.
>>55405934
Easy. First one to arrive with the money gets it. No reservation. I once had 3 people race each other on a day for a shitty GTX 960. When the first one showed up I told the other 2 to just go home and suck it up.
>>55408234
Yeah that'd be nice. I put this GPU on sale for 3 months and got just one person to actually show up.
I'm going to tell him that I already have a buyer and to hurry the fuck up or else.
>>55402107
>7970 can't play mgs5 maxed
nigga I play MGS 5 Maxed out 60 fps with 7850
>>55408263
Why not just ebay it?
>>55408234
>Not pitting them against each other in a bidding war
>Missing out on one of the best parts of a capitalist society
L2Salesman fool, it's like you don't even like money.
I have a 280x. It can't keep up on 1440p,so i'm going to upgrade soon to 1070/1080 when the prices drop.
>>55405149
ahahhahaha +18% increase with SLI
is novidya even trying?
>>55404593
>mfw I bought the exact same combo 1,5 years ago
>>55405149
>people actually bought Titans for sik gamez due to market hype and bullshit
I have a 7970 in my Alienware. It's only used for LAN at friends and a little 4-way split screen on the projector when my main machine is busy, but it handles everything nicely and for 1080p it really doesn't need anything more as of yet.
>>55408425
>you wasted money on an old, dead socket
The people that got the value were the ones that bought in early, and got the long term value from it.
The whole point of the 2500k meem is the performance/$ over the life span.
You spent money that could have been spent on a new socket and a machine that would have lasted.
Instead you bought someones burnt out leftovers.
>>55408133
Still using my 8800gt. Will have to upgrade soon for 1080p (Wolfenstein runs at 1fps). But fuck, what an awesome card.
>>55408646
>pairing my 5 or 6 year old 2500k with my gtx1080
>zero fucks given
ya fuck you intel
>>55408646
yup, cause I was short on money. But that's why I posted a pepe
4850 here. still runs ok, only gaym I play is Dotka
>>55401777
>still relevant to this day
No it's not.
32 cu gcn clocked at 1ghz. Exactly same as 280x, exactly the same as 380x, exactly the same as rx 470. They just keep dropping the price.
I can't decide if AMD having zero innovation over four years is a good thing or not.
All i play these days is rocket league and my old 2gb 7850 can run it at 140 fps. Even fallout 4 ran decently on medium settings. But i just got a new job and for the first time in a long time i have money burning a hole in my pocket, might upgrade soon, once all this new gpu drama has died down.
>>55409075
Yes it is.
lmao
i'm still using a HD4870 and it runs most games at medium/high settings.
There has been no reason to upgrade since 2008 lmfao.
>>55409286
>>55401990
Ps3 has its own custom cell architecture, not nvidia retard.
>>55409318
>>55409318
coupled with an nvidia gpu, retard
aight 7970 senpai, mine is starting to die, keeping it going with a pair of ziptied on case fans that keep it cooler than ever but what's the upgrade path here if you plan on decent price/performance and not to upgrade for at least 3 years?
gtx 1070 when they hit 400 usd? Wait for rx 490?
also considering a sapphire rx 480 and then reselling it for half the price when vega options hit in a year or so
>>55409461
i5 2400, 7870 here. Just sold my itx cube for 450
Im going kabylake i7, dan sfx a4 and RX fury or any name amd spew out after the 490 housefire meme has ended.
My desktop is still using pic related. How embarrassing is this? What would happen if I tried to play modern games?
>>55409461
Just keep the 7970 dream alive and get a rx 470 lad.
Polaris is gcn on 14nm with zero improvement so either AMD is bankrupt and finished or Vega is suddenly going to be a 4 year leap in their tech when it hits.
>>55409531
you'd probably be alright at 800x600 on medium
>>55409531
Its about a gtx 560 which I was using until last year. It isn't really that bad slightly worse than xbox one.
>>55401910
360 was literally the first fully DirectX 10 compliant hardware ever created
It's old but it has unified shaders and eDRAM. PS3's GPU on the other hand is an absolute joke. I don't want to know what kind of software routines had to be written on Cell to make Uncharted 3 work in compensation for that god awful Nvidia GPU.
>>55409461
Im getting the Sapphire 480 as its a decent upgrade from the 280x (7970), and then decide to sell it or keep it when the 490 is actually released.
>>55402107
>autism problems
>>55409635
>480 decent upgrade from a 280x/7970
no, no it's not
>>55409531
I'm currently using this too. What would happen is, you would need to play at the lowest settings on a very low resolution for plenty of games. Some might not even work well at all. Don't try the latest batman, or else experience a slideshow.
>>55409699
Is it not? Would you save those 100 bucks and keep the 280x?
>>55409699
Well, I sold my 280x for 150 eurodollars which is roughly half of the 480, so it's pretty nice.
>>55409742
Lucky, I have tried for a while to sell mine.
>>55408277
I didn't @ 1080p with a 5930K and 16 GB of RAM
It was closer to 20 fps
>>55402928
Same boat friend. HD7850 should work on a single 1080 for quite a while longer.
>>55401777
Git gud
>>55401777
7870 user here UwU
I've never found a game that this card couldn't play, But MSI made the PCB out of playdough, so I have to have a soda can holding it up, or else it'll sag, artifact, and crash.
How long will I be able to keep using my 660?
My uncle used to mine bitcoins when it was possible with GPUs and not miners. He had around 20 7970s mining. Now that it's obsolete he has no use for them so he gave a couple to me. I have no use for it since I have a 390x so I gave it to some friends and now they can play games, modern games with me.
>>55411240
>He had around 20 7970s mining.
Is your uncle a fucking millionaire?
>>55401777
isnt the 5850x2 still good even now?
>>55402495
you sound salty as fuck. you can circlejerk with your other two /g/ friends about how much money you spend yearly on new tech, but the majority doesn't do that.
>>55409318
>The RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' is a proprietary graphics processing unit (GPU) codeveloped by Nvidia and Sony for the PlayStation 3 game console. It is a GPU based on the Nvidia 7800GTX graphics processor and, according to Nvidia, is a G70/G71 (previously known as NV47) hybrid architecture with some modifications. The RSX has separate vertex and pixel shader pipelines. The GPU makes use of 256 MB GDDR3 RAM clocked at 650 MHz with an effective transmission rate of 1.4 GHz and up to 224 MB of the 3.2 GHz XDR main memory via the CPU (480 MB max). Although it carries the majority of the graphics processing, the Cell Broadband Engine, the console's CPU, is also used complementarily for some graphics-related computational loads of the console.
>>55402672
>>55402829
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1d9bxbd8HI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2mJaYQhaYc
Actual side by side comparisons for different graphical settings.
>Tfw Ultra is literally benchmark meme fodder for most games.
>>55411726
>Is your uncle a fucking millionaire?
He is now :^)
>>55404622
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4r2tij/custom_star_wars_gtx_470/
>>55408133
Overpriced.
8800gt was better
HD5870 was better
Probably even gtx 460 was better
HD7870 was better
GTX 970 was better
>>55411776
I don't know about now but the 58x0 def stayed relevant longer than cards usually do. I think unless you managed to snag the less popular 2GB 5870 the 1GB of VRAM is way to little now days.
The 8800GT/X and its variants was another card that had a really good shelf life.
First gen Core i7 Nehalem chips are still really nice. If you got one in 2008/2009 that's a long time without needing to upgrade. They even released a six core version on the same socket.
>>55401777
>tfw upgrading from a 7950 to a 1070
It's been a hell of a nice video card for all these years, hoping to get similar life out of this next one.
>>55415806
You wont since
>DX12
>>55416152
True, a lot of things to consider right now. Vulkan, DX12, etc. I can still cancel it anyway, it's really expensive. Money isn't a problem but I mean it could still be worth waiting it out a couple years.
>>55416152
>>55416686
Nvidia's scaling in DX12 compared to AMDs is absolute shit.
>old as fuck yet still relevant to this day
What went so right?
who /Q6600/ @ 3.4GHz here?
>>55416771
that's not always the case, though it's not much of a surprise considering that their dx11 driver can handle almost twice as many draw calls.
>>55416784
>old
I don't think you understand what that word means.
>>55415806
heh, all the new generation crap will never be or feel like the old stuff
>>55416922
Q6600 @ 3ghz. Dell OEM won't let me over clock without the pad mod so that's as good as itll get.
Using thermal paste with toothpaste :p. Had no paste on hand after doing the pad mood so just improvised.
>>55416784
My nigger. I see no reason to replace this thing anytime soon. Hoping to keep it til 2020.
>>55416784
>le 2500k face
fuck off meme shits NO ONE CARES
>>55416784
>smokes the FX8350
>still keeps 60 fps with newer titles
nothing this good will ever come back and i feel like i should buy one even i dont have a intel pc.
>>55402107
>he fell for the maxed settings meme
Nigga I can play on my 7870 oc'ed to 1200mhz almost every game released with a visual fidelity comparable to the one you got when ignorantly maxing settings. Just disable some gimmicky things like hairworks or 8xAA. Damn even a gtx 980ti is capable of running all the games released nowadays smoothly at 4k if you know how to properly tune the settings, don't fall for marketing memes saying that you need two 1080s to run 4k
>tfw gtx 970 meme card
>it will probably age like shit
>>55417604
as soon as Nvidia stop telling it to not use more than 3.5GB you're screwed. Sorry senpai
>Buy 5850 in 2009
>runs everything great
>yuge overclocks
>rock solid
>end up selling 5850 for more than I bought it
>5850 still running fine in 2014 but replace it with 290x because I got 1440p monitor
>290x overheats like a sumbich
>thermal throttling
>bad memory controller results in constant black screens
>RMA card 4 times and get 4 replacements
>each has same issues
Should have just kept my 5850
>>55417604
the clock is ticking. soon enough it will go to
"legacy" support, then just dropped altogether
>>55416784
Still on an i5-750. This thing will keep going forever. Don't see myself replacing it for another couple generations.
>>55417615
>>55417641
I know right
I got really cucked
I need to sell it to a fool and get a 390 or something
>>55416784
I have one too friend, keeping for evs
>>55401777
Those fans are the worst fans
>>55416784
>old
>not still using core 2 duo
>>55405056
>780ti when it launched, now the 780ti smokes the 290x and is pretty close to outperforming an OCed 290x (390x).
This is objectively false. The hierarchy at the time of release was unambiguous and went
Titan Black
780ti
290x
Titan
290
780
And now the 290 goes toe-to-toe with the 780ti, where the 290x will cleanly outperform it.
>>55409621
Why the fuck did playstation go with that stupid amount of cores, it's like they expected developers wanting to just develop exclusively for their shit
>>55401777
What are you talking about?
That's bleeding edge tech for AMD.
Friend of mine gave me a similar card and I cant for the life of me figure out how to take this ugly ass black bar off of it.
>>55416571
Get the 490, AMD cards age really well.
>>55421817
490 = Vega?
>>55421869
Most likely yes, it will be released Q4 this year.
>>55408353
Fuck that, never eBay a card, dumb buyer sends me back a bent card that's broken not in static protection and I have to refund them
>>55401910
because ati was actually based before amd bought them up and made them quite possibly the shittest hardware company in existence.
>xbox 360
>ati graphics and ibm cpu
>ahead of its time
>better hardware than 95% of gaming pc's at the time
>£300
>xbox one
>amd apu
>already outdated
>a shitty dell prebuilt with a 750 ti for £350 was better
>£439
>>55402790
nvidiots having high expectations they can't reach cause of limited VRAM
>>55419746
This explains why ps3 had tons more exclusives as well as better graphics than the 360(comparing exclusives of course).
>>55423363
>as well as better graphics than the 360(comparing exclusives of course).
Pretty much every PS3 exclusive that isn't a movie has pretty crummy graphics though
>>55423363
PS3 sold more, and 360 barely sold anything in Japan.
Early on it had >nogames
But exclusives were because of the amount sold and (almost) all Nippon devs going PS3 by defualt
>>55423510
>ps3 sold more
literally like 200k more units or something along those lines. the 360 was by far the most popular global console during the 7th gen. it was the no1 dudebro console.
>>55401910
>"""plays""" tomb raider and gta v
>>55423926
Dudebros who mainly play Cowadooty and sport games
PS3 was bigger in Europe and much bigger in Japan.
>>55424035
>PS3 was bigger in Europe
barely
>>55419746
>that stupid amount of cores
Please stop pushing this meme. SPE's are not cores. The Cell was a single core CPU with 7 SPE's.
>>55401843
>i still can't play DS3 at a decent framerate
Maybe I should stop being such a lazy neet and go out to get a part-time job.
