Dirt Showdown
“DiRT Showdown is the new arcade racing game from the team that brought you the award-winning DiRT series, uncaged in 2012. Pick up and play controls combine with electrifying events, frenzied crowds and stunning graphics to deliver high octane, dive in and drive thrills from event one.” From Codemasters.com
Dirt Showdown sadly didn’t run and we think a driver issue was to blame.
not bad, not bad at all, hopefully those new apu’s will support the 7730 in hybrid crossfire, DO not buy the ddr3 version, its wasting money, make sure and buy the gddr5 version, you can purchase a 6670 gddr5 for around £45, if you shop around, so £50-£55 for this card is spot on, thanks for the review Eteknix, spot on as usual.
shame you don’t compare against the 6670 🙁 – would love to know how much of an upgrade this would be to a GDDR5 version of the 6670 my kids have
I am sorry we couldn’t get a HD 6670 in as they are too old for vendors to provide them. I did however find this – http://media.bestofmicro.com/H/K/394616/original/Average-Perf.png which shows that GDDR5 vs GDDR5 you’re looking at about 7.5-10% more for the HD 7730. Power consumption is more or less identical too. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7730-cape-verde-review,3575.html I’d definitely encourage you not to bother making the upgrade from the HD 6670. It really isn’t worth it, I’d say the minimum you should consider is a HD 7750, ideally a HD 7770 if you really want to see a noticeable improvement. The HD 7730 compared to the HD 6670 is just a generational boost, nothing significant, but since it comes in at a similar price if you made any new builds i’d definitely get this over the HD 6670 if the price is right.
thank you! if you want to borrow one – im sure my kids could `lose` there pc for a few days 😉 – but I guess your right about either a 750/70 or maybe even waiting!
My 6570 has 480 stream processors, how is it going to phase out the 6670?
More processors doesn’t mean more performance. The HD 6670 is about 10% faster than the HD 6570. The HD 7730 is about 7.5-10% faster than the HD 6670.
Stop comparing SPUs (stream processing units) between generations. The GCN SPUs in the HD7000 are MUCH more powerful than those in the HD6000 and HD 5000. Heck, this little 7730 DESTROYS my HD4650 which has around 320 SPUs. Just like my 800 SPUs HD5770 gets torn apart by the 640 SPUs HD7770.
On NVIDIAs side, their GTX 600 take around twice the number of cuda cores compared to the GTX 500 in order to be as powerful. HOWEVER, the kepler cores are much more energy efficient and thus, the 650ti is on par with the 560ti. But it consumes around 75% less energy then the 560ti