More power efficient, cooler and more powerful if its atleast 50 percent faster im replacing my hd 7970 for a hd 9970

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-Volcanic-Islands-7790,22518.html

AMD is doing big things.

Do we really need graphics cards this fast for next gen games I would wait untill the first next gen console games h*t pc ,because with consoles being pc like the games will be optimized and no longer poor ports .pc only games are going to be the only games taking advantage of such power and they will be few and far between with next gen consoles basicly being mid range pc's

games will still need to be ported as the amd arcitecture is a fair bit different to the standard apu cpu's as they dont share memory the same way. because the amd apu in the ps4 uses shared gddr5 its memmory though put will be huge which means games can be programmed a different way(easier and more efficent) and its this difference that means games will still have to go through a porting process.

xbxo games will likely need a lot less effort to port but in general your still likely to see some perfomance hit on some games that use more than 4 threads. but if your cpu has hyperthreading or is at least x2 faster than the amd apu then this h*t should be minimal.

what in the hell are you talking about

yes we do current top end cards are even slow with todays resolutions on ultra like crysis 3 etc ppl with 120hz monitors want 120 fps and ppl with higher resolution will demand more gpu performance. and 4k is not far away either. try to run some newer games with your current card on 4k it will fail

there will allways be settings higher than consoles output AA levels higher texture quality etc

ofcourse. PC graphics are vastly superior. Next gen consoles are still 720p capped. Thats pathetic. Even my old laptop has a 1600x900 resolution lol

Crysis 3 is not optimized just like every other game from the current generation consoles . Next gen games should not need much more power . And 4k is still a good 5 years away from being affordable .

Spot on jay

crysis 3 is not a console port and what do you have against upgrades? faster hardware and overall upgrading in my eyes is great and should evolve even faster

we are talkin tech now go brush yer teeth and leave the adults to chat in piece.

its clear you dont know who you are talking to

Wrong .Crysis 3 is a port with some dx11 feature slapped on top . Yes it looks amazing but it could be optimized a lott better than it was . And im against upgrade for minimal gains ,Been building pc's for over 17 years now and back in the early days you had to upgrade to play some games there was no LOW settings you simply could not play the game and an upgrade ment amazing new graphics ,now days its all about how many fps you can get on a benchmark .

crysis 2 was a port with dx11 features not 3.

benchmarks are just for measurment overall game smoothness is what counts the most the lowest fps dips are the ones that ruin the gameplay for me thats why i upgrade. my last card started to struggle and then i upgraded.

Fake. All these articles come from this post where a user guessed what COULD be possible.. http://www.semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=168728postcount=7

'' That is all fake. It (the image these articles are based on) was made by a user on SemiAccurate; all the r*tarded sites out there just took it and assumed it was something from AMD. ''