And if TPU review is wrong? Unlike you I read several different reviews of the same product.
TPU wrong? Well Recus, you should leave the forums now, that's heresy.
And i do also read many, many other review sites I prefer Anand, Hexus & TPU as my staples but the German site HT4U.net does a pretty comprehensive review as well -shame i don't speak german! I find a lot of other review sites to be poor though, many fail to bench cards at high resolutions, preferring to stick to 1080p, which is console-tastically underwhelming. The irony is, people don't need 680's and 7970's at that resolution.
Well of course. Nvidia has taken AMD and us for a ride. The incompetent masterminds at the helm of AMD, the same that are driving the company to disaster, launched the 7970 clocked conservatively and at an astonishing price - remember? $550. Nvidia on the other hand wasn't ready with the big chip, you know the one that was supposed to be the flagship and compete with the 7970, the infamous GK110. In turn the very manufacturable, smaller and very powerful midrange chip was almost ready. Some tweaks, the ingenious boost and bam!
You have another flagship which at launch was better by a fair margin than the 7970 and claimed the most important title of the fastest GPU.
Now imagine what would have happened if AMD would have launched the 7970 clocked as a GHZ edition?
Quite so. But rumours suggested AMD weren't sure the initial bins would stand up to the core increases but with hindsight, they did clock very well indeed. Shame they priced so high initially (which also brought $$$ signs to Nvidia). Still, there's always Larabee...no wait, Knights Corner or is it Broadwell...... Intel wont stay gpu agnostic forever...