Graphic Cards Do AMD's Radeon HD 7000s Trade Image Quality For Performance?

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Based on our original findings, it wasn’t a stretch to question if AMD had decided to try an old trick with the 7000 , giving up hard-to-notice texture detail for a couple of frames per second in some games. We’re glad that AMD responded, clarified the situation, and provided proof in a fixed pre-release driver, plus a commitment to include that resolution in the upcoming Catalyst 12.4 WHQL driver. The driver it sent us for testing suggests that the issue can be solved without sacrificing performance.
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...is AMD cheating now? Or is this really a mistake?

I am going to look at some screens on my cousins 7970 and compare it to my 580 and will try and post,

until then please read the article below:

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Don't know about current generation issues, but my HD 5770 has widespread texture issues and tearing whilst I am playing games like --
  • Dead Space 2
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
  • The Witcher 2

Even after patching to the latest instances of the Catalyst drivers, these issues are yet to be fully resolved. No issues pertaining to choppy frame-rates though.
 
Hd 57xx is notorious for screen tearing!

Even I have xfx 5770 and screen tearing is there in every unreal engine and cry engine games.

Maybe because they are nvidia sponsered?

Not very annoying though.
 
GameR1120 said:
Hd 57xx is notorious for screen tearing!

Even I have xfx 5770 and screen tearing is there in every unreal engine and cry engine games.

Maybe because they are nvidia sponsered?

Not very annoying though.
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ALPHA17 said:
  • Dead Space 2
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
  • The Witcher 2
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Apart from Dead Space 2 no other game is Unreal engine based. Even running Crysis 2 I did not notice any texture issues, The Witcher 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (all editions) and Total War series which suffer unilaterally on my system.

The Witcher 2 runs on The RED engine and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. runs on various iterations of X-Ray both are proprietary engines developed in-house by the studio themselves.
 
It is due to the crappy and buggy software that AMD is famous providing......i think there is no problem with the hardware....You can cleary see that when compared with GTX 580 the screens are buggy
 
Saikiran said:
It is due to the crappy and buggy software that AMD is famous providing......i think there is no problem with the hardware....U can cleary see that when compared with GTX 580 the screens are buggy
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If you cannot provide irrefutable support to this comment please refrain from putting up such thoughts, you have a problem with their drivers too bad, as long as the games are playable why whine.

I said I am having texture tearing it doesn't stop me from gaming, also for my experience with nVidia it is a sad story, I had bought the 9500 GT to replace my damaged Radeon X700 [fan had become ostentatiously noisy] unit in 2008 even after updating to the latest drivers it did not perform as well as my Radeon X700 in games like Crysis [on Shader Model 2.0 rendering].
 
GameR1120 said:
Oh no!

I would have agreed with this something like a 5 years ago.

Today, Nvidia also releases crappy drivers, atleast AMD never blew their graphic cards!

http://www.bit-tech....s-can-explode/1
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Thanks for adding that piece, Sire. Seriously which AMD card has exploded with its own drivers during over-clocking?
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Seriously I have not once while playing Skyrim, or Battlefield or anything else, stopped and stared at the bark of a tree to see if the textures are blurred. Nobody notices things like these. If image quality suffered considerably, people would notice.

About the nvidia card burning, it was a one of occurrence. I don't think there have been any other reported cases.

I have used both nVidia and ATi, and on Windows their drivers are pretty stable, and work just fine. On linux though nVidia drivers are certainly better.
 
@ALPHA17

What's the point in buying a Grahics card which does not perform well....? proof has already been posted by INFECTED....i said it is the software issue but not the hardware.....

BTW i have been using NVIDIA since 8 years from now...no complaints......U must be really unlucky to have issue with your previous NVIDIA card.......and I am neither a NVIDIA nor a AMD fan boy....
 
Saikiran said:
@ALPHA17

To tag people, use # in front of their tags, e.g. -- #[member='Saikiran']

What's the point in buying a Grahics card which does not perform well....? proof has already been posted by INFECTED....i said it is the software issue but not the hardware.....

BTW i have been using NVIDIA since 8 years from now...no complaints......U must be really unlucky to have issue with your previous NVIDIA card.......and I am neither a NVIDIA nor a AMD fan boy....
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It is not definitive proof Sire, these are the opening days of the HD 7*** series, it will get better over time. When I said proof, I meant solid proof that due to the texture glitches and erratum you are unable to play the game. My HD 5770 has texture tearing issues [2[sup]1[/sup]/[sub]2[/sub] years after release] now that is something which is sad, but it doesn't stop me from gaming.

Tell me problems that make gameplay impossible, my proof is a 9500GT which underperformed compared to my ATi X700 graphics card on Crysis [on Shader Model 2.0 and low settings]. Framing was the issue, I could not strafe without throwing the game into an impromptu slow-mo frame sequence that is unplayable. Framing is an issue, low frame-rates are an issue, bad contact box and poor response of controls is a gaming issue, texture tears ARE NOT AN ISSUE until they artefact the entire UI on the screen.

Just beating the hell out of AMD / ATi for having poor drivers is uncalled for, in that case I can go on deriding the Intel HD graphics for having the worst interface and graphics drivers ever.
 
AMD just fixed all texture filtering issues in the latest drivers for HD7000 series. Also performance seems to have improved significantly in Catalyst 12.4
 
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