Hardware AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review

Very nice magazine Custom Pc, i do buy it often but with this review of 5970 and previews reviews on graph. cards its very very obvious their favourites are Nvidia cards. Its ok by me but when talking about prices between the 2 companies...i mean come on!!! is it Nvidia? Noo...whatever nvidia throws is always...(99%) better!!! I have now in my system BFG GTS250 OC so i hope im not biased,thank you.

 

I could have sworn I read a review a few days back that said this card will melt your face off..... all the other respected sites also vouch for this, so now I come back to see some updates to find that it is under performing... what gives can somone explain ( I am certain that there was a rave review here)

 

Are you suggesting that CPC/Bit-tech are manipulating the figures? What I think it might be is that same old story - AMD bring out a new card that looks great on paper, yet the drivers are in a mess and the games used to test the cards run better on Nvidia hardware because TWIMTBP team have worked with the developers on making things run smoothly. A £500+ card that performs no better than a single 5870 is a waste of time.

You can have the most powerful car in the world, but if you are using ox cart wheels, it is all for nothing.

 

drivers, CPU bottlenecks

 

so which drivers were they using originaly ? are the new drivers inferior to the original ones the usedd ? and where they using an ingerior cpu on this round of testing compared to the original article or to all the other review sites ?

 

Wow. Just another reminder of how far this site has fallen.