Does anyone think it's possible that AMD wrote into the latest driver a throttling factor for mining just for the launch in order to give gamers some 'breathing room' on launch. This might explain the divergent rumours earlier on (older drivers) with current findings today. Especially with the blower style cooler, be curious to see what AIB partners do for cooling and if hash get's better with 'update'
Bingo.
Really? I read this and don't know what to think...
Here is a shocker, maybe, just maybe the rumors were full of shit?
But nooooo, it is much easier to believe there is some grand conspiracy to artificially hinder mining performance at launch just to appease gamer's, many of whom probably are also miners when they are not gaming. Yep, that's it, AMD is going to risk giving market-share to their competitor Nvidia just so they can appease some bitchy gamer who already whines about the price when they could instead be selling them to miners who will gladly pay $100 over MSRP. Sorry, but your pie in the sky dreams of a killer mining card aren't coming true with this release.
Time will tell, won't it? We'll see what the max rate from this card turns out to be.