Is anybody using AMD's new HD7970 for FFXIV ?

[Franzisca]

Hi there

What the title says, I'd like to know if anybody is playing FFXIV with the new HD7970 and what your guys performance is like. I was looking forward to get one of the new generation GPU's for various reasons and since Nvidia wont have their flagship out until Q3 2012 the AMD card looked interesting.

I found a video where somebody showed off the 7970 with the official benchmark.
CrossFire doesn't work in window mode so we can assume this is his single-card score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ7s6WrwzU

What I don't understand is according to all benchmarks around the internet the 7970 is about 20% faster on average over the previous generations top card GTX580 yet my 580 is leaving this guys score in the dust with just a slight factory OC while the rest of our PC builds is nearly equal (both Z68/LGA1155 based rigs).

Thats what I got running the benchmark again after watching the AMD video:

FFXIV_Benchmark_02-2012.jpg

Is FFXIV, at least with the current engine, so much pro-Nvidia biased?

Thanks in advance and best regards