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Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition Released

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19 Mar 2013 20:15 - 19 Mar 2013 21:48 #22888 by BenB
Sapphire Launches Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition Graphics Card for Mac Pro. May or may not be all it is cracked up to be. And there are rumors of much more powerful GPUs coming soon, too.

www.fcproxuniversity.com/FCPro_X_Univers...ersion_Released.html
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19 Mar 2013 21:12 - 19 Mar 2013 21:49 #22895 by BenB
This from the guy who did the benchmarks;

"...I did run some FCPX tests (directional blur, gaussian blur, rain effect, underwater effect). The 7950 was faster on all four tests. The advantage ranged from 2.8% for direct blur to 18.8% for gaussian blur and rain effect."
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21 Mar 2013 00:15 #22942 by FCPGuy

BenB wrote: Update: Seems like Sapphire is very puzzled by the lack of pro app performance. We should see a diver and/or firmware update to fix this. Crossing my fingers. This from the guy who did the benchmarks;

"AMD is looking into these issues to see if it is a driver issue. They are concerned especially about the Motion performance.
Meanwhile, I did run some FCPX tests (directional blur, gaussian blur, rain effect, underwater effect). The 7950 was faster on two and slower on the other two. So I call it a tie. Again, not sure why and they are working to find out.
So far DaVinci Resolve is the only video pro app that's does GPU intensive functions significantly faster than the 5870."


What was the reason removing this information?
Is Sapphire not looking into this anymore?

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21 Mar 2013 00:20 #22943 by BenB
Sapphire is very much looking into the Motion (Apple pro app) performance issues. I've not heard they weren't.

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