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[citation][nom]s3anister[/nom]It is a further cut down 7950, seriously, go read the article if you're trying to dispute me on this and FYI, the memory interface is part of the GPU. You basically stated in slightly greater (and in places, inaccurate) detail what I already said.As for overclocking, WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING? From the Tom's Hardware article: That's a 225MHz overclock from the stock boost setting, not a small overclock by any means.[/citation]

Saying more of the GPU, especially the way you worded your post, implies just more of the core clusters and related hardware. The memory controllers are a part of the GPU, but that isn't the implication going by what you said.

Furthermore, none of what I said was inaccurate, I never said anything about the 7870 XT being bad at overclocking (there's a difference between being bad and not being as good as the 7950), and the 7870 XT isn't just a cut-down 7950, it also has inferior silicon quality (inferior binning regardless of further disabled features).

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5158/sapphire_radeon_hd_7870_xt_tahiti_le_2gb_with_boost_overclocked_video_card_review/index6.html

GPU frequency isn't everything in overclocking. Kepler teaches that lessen well too.
 
What I said didn't imply anything other than exactly what I said the first time.

I never said anything about the 7870 XT being bad at overclocking
On the subject of implications...
It is using a cut-down Tahiti with poor binning, but its cut-down memory interface hurts it when it comes to overclocking and otherwise memory-bound situations.
My comment on inaccuracy was in reference to your first comment about overclocking and what it seemed to imply (quoted above) so perhaps we both could benefit from being just a little bit more specific.

Believe me I know that frequency (and cores) isn't everything, architecture design, memory, interface, secondary systems, etc. all play a part in the performance of hardware, but we both know this already. But in reference to the Myst edition card overclocking it does help a lot; if you look at the TH article I linked the first time it shows that overclocked to 1.2GHz the card's performance index is 144.36% vs. 127.05% at stock frequencies: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tahiti-le-7870-7930-benchmark,3401-5.html
 
[citation][nom]s3anister[/nom]What I said didn't imply anything other than exactly what I said the first time.On the subject of implications...My comment on inaccuracy was in reference to your first comment about overclocking and what it seemed to imply (quoted above) so perhaps we both could benefit from being just a little bit more specific.Believe me I know that frequency (and cores) isn't everything, architecture design, memory, interface, secondary systems, etc. all play a part in the performance of hardware, but we both know this already. But in reference to the Myst edition card overclocking it does help a lot; if you look at the TH article I linked the first time it shows that overclocked to 1.2GHz the card's performance index is 144.36% vs. 127.05% at stock frequencies: http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 401-5.html[/citation]

My point was that it no longer overclocks as well as the 79xx cards do in raw performance because its weaker memory bus holds it back a little kinda like Kepler's memory buses hold back the Kepler GPUs. It is not inaccurate to say that the weaker memory bus hurt overclocking performance compared to the 79xx overclocking headroom that was fairly consistent across both the 7950 and the 7970 and the two are not far from the 7970 GHz Edition. The 7870 XT performs more like a 7870 with somewhat better overclocking than it performs like the Tahiti-based card that it really is when it comes to overclocking. Sure, it can hit Tahiti's insane clocks just fine, but that memory bus really hurts.

Tom's review was too incomplete, hence I gave the other link which does demonstrate this.
 
I'm so happy they're doing the deal again. I was suppose to get paid last friday(2/15) when the deal was in stock, but something happen and they're going to pay me on the 22nd instead. I damn near almost shed a tear when I saw it was out of stock lol.
 
Does anyone have any information in regards to when they will be running this deal again? Because after contacting newegg, they didn't seem to know what I was talking about.
 
I'm right there with you UCLAco2016 .... I had auto notify for the return of the card, and then had to wait for the deal... and now its gone again....
 
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