Quote from: BOARBEAR on January 05, 2012, 12:55:06 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on January 04, 2012, 10:35:42 PM

Quote from: newguy05 on January 04, 2012, 10:10:05 PM

i will be pretty upset if the 7xxx comes out only marginally better for mining. Because i just sold both 5970 at $300 a pop on ebay getting ready for the 7xxx series. Miner is down right now waiting for the new card to release.

Why would you do that? The discussion has been for months that GCN architecture may not be mining friendly.

Your sold 5970s deliver 1.4 to 1.5GH. You do realize that it is a pipe dream to think the 7970 will be ANYWHERE near that. Worse at launch the card is likely going to sell at $549 and even then availability may be difficult.

Disablo may be able to pull some respectable performance out of the card (eventually) but your sale was downright foolish. If the 7970 could someday deliver 500 MH that would be decent. 600 MH+ would be amazing. It isn't going to deliver 1.5GH. You can't optimize something out of nothing.

He did not say 7970. He could wait for a 7890 or something that uses VLIW4 which are better at mining.

Well a couple problems w/ that.

1) 7890 or 7870 or 7850 will all be relatively expensive at launch.
2) Launch for the 78xx series isn't until Feb or March and that might be pushed back further. What is the oppertunity cost of 2x 5970 for 4 months?
3) There is no guarantee that 7870 will use VLIW4 or be any better at mining. Later reports indicate the 78xx will be GCN also and only the entry level OEM trash (76xx) will be die shrinked VLIW4.

Like I said all this has been extensively discussed for last month or so.

Now IF the 78xx series has good performance and IF someone like diablo can tweak mining kernel enough to unlock that performance AND if the cards launch on time and IF AMD is aggressive in pricing then MAYBE the 7850 will be a decent mining cards ... in 3 months. To sell hands down the best mining card for a hope is .... silly.