AMD Radeon HD 7970 Video Card Reviews Roundup

What's really cool is that today we're not just looking at a reference designed card from one of the AMD partners, instead we're looking at a card that not only carries an out of the box overclock, but also carries with it a new cooling solution.

The Black Edition naming in the new XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation isn't anything new to us, the new Double Dissipation tag is, though, and that refers to the cooling solution they're using today.

Reference clock speeds on the HD 7970 were set at 925 MHz on the GPU and 1375 MHz on the memory.  For comparison, the XFX Black Edition ramps that up to 1000 MHz on the GPU and 1425 MHz on the GDDR5 memory.  While these aren't out of this world results that we might have been hoping for, the 8% boost or so in clock rate will surely be seen.

Today we are finally able to talk about partner cards and so have paired up PowerColor's hardware in our test system and have retested the latest games such as Battlefield 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic with single and dual GPU's on the latest drivers and game patches. What does the PowerColor 7970 and CrossFire offer us? Let's find out...

In this episode of the podcast, Scott and special guest David Kanter from Real World Technologies dissect the Radeon HD 7970. Our panel also answers some listener questions, discusses upcoming games, and examines the Eee Pad Transformer Prime from Asus.

Sapphire Pure Black X79N Motherboard and HD7970 GPU Review

AMD launched their new flagship HD7970 graphics card in December, and we have been extremely impressed with the solution as it has claimed the top performance slot

First up on our test bench is the HIS Radeon HD 7970 3GB. We will be putting it up against the best of the last generation in a selection of real world tests which include Battlefield 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Skyrim all at 5760x1080. In addition to this we will also look at GPU computing and media performance as well as power and thermal performance.

Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: HD7970 Quadfire Eyefinity Review. So what if money was no object? What if you want to break world records? Perhaps Quadfire HD7970s would be the ticket...

Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: HIS HD7970 Crossfire & Eyefinity Review. If one HD7970 is exceptional, what would the performance of two be like? Thanks to HIS Digital we can find out. Read on.

Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: PowerColor HD7970 Overclocking & Eyefinity Review. Next up in our insane look at the HD7970 is Powercolor, purveyors of some of our favourite Radeon cards.

AMD have lifted their partner NDA today, and in this review we will be looking at the performance of two HIS HD7970s in a Crossfire configuration.

Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: VTX3D HD7970 PCIE2 vs PCIE3 Review. Today we start our mammoth look at the HD7970 with the VTX3D version, and a change of testing methodology.

AMD might have trouble keeping up with the competition in the CPU arena, but their acquisition of ATI allowed them to become a major player in the graphics world. AMD and NVIDIA regularly trade places in the "fastest video card" rankings, and while NVIDIA's been good holding down the title with its current high-end, the Fermi-based GTX 580, it looks as if AMD's new Tahiti-based Radeon HD 7970 will snatch the crown away...especially if it's a hot-rod, factory-overclocked video card like today's test subject: the XFX R7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation.

AMD's Radeon HD 7970 has quickly established itself as the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world. In our ASUS HD 7970 CrossFire review we take two of these beasts for a spin to see what benefit they offer. One of the highlights is reduced power consumption thanks to AMD's new ZeroCore power technology.

Bereits im Dezember präsentierte AMD die Radeon HD 7970 (ComputerBase-Test), die erstmals auf die neue Graphics-Core-Next-Architektur setzt und damit vieles anders macht. Kaufen konnte man die Karte jedoch noch nicht, das geht erst ab dem heutigen Tage: Und dann nur das Referenzdesign, andere Versionen gibt es (fast) nicht.

Although they're not officially supposed to go on sale until tomorrow, Newegg already has their selection of 7970s up for sale this evening. Newegg has cards from all of AMD's major North American partners, including HIS, Gigabyte, XFX, Asus, Sapphire, and PowerColor. Most of them are at the AMD MSRP of $549, though the Asus card is $589, and XFX's custom cooled and overclocked model is at $599.

While we don't have an official statement from AMD on 7970 availability, historically the first run of every next-generation GPU has sold out and we don't expect the 7970 to be any different. (Ed: One sold out while we were writing this post).

Mit dem heutigen Tage fällt das NDA für die Retail-Versionen der Radeon HD 7970 und die XFX Radeon HD 7970 Double Dissipation Edition ist eines der ersten Modelle, auf das wir einen Blick werfen wollen. Alle technischen Details zur "Southern Island"-Generation findet ihr im Launch-Artikel zur Radeon HD 7970. XFX will in den kommenden Wochen mit einem breit gefächertem Angebot für die Radeon HD 7970 aufwarten können. Dazu gehört ein Referenzmodell mit AMDs Kühlung und auch die Eigenentwicklung mit XFactor-Technologie, welche die zahlreichen Features einer alternativ gekühlten Karte unter einem Begriff zusammenfasst. Auf die Details werden wir später noch genauer eingehen.