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February 2012
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Strong Performance
Good Power Consumption
Highly Overclockable
3GB Frame Buffer
Eyefinity Support
Good gaming performance for the price. Excellent power usage.
Nearly as fast as the much pricier HD 7970
Improved power savings when idle
Support for 4K video and other forward-looking features
Good performance increase vs. HD 6950
Excellent energy efficiency
Outstanding overclocking potential
Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output
Dual BIOS
3 GB of memory with 384-bit bus
Adds support for PCI-Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1
Support for
The editors didn't like
Pricey
Trades Victories With 3GB GeForce GTX 580 OC
Not appreciably faster than competing Nvidia card on every title. Requires two six-pin power supply cables. Blocks an adjacent expansion slot
Expensive
4K video content and screens likely won't be common for a year or more
Final Words & Conclusion Our Crossfire experience was a mixed bag of results. When we tested the 7970 in 2-way Crossfire, we barely had any issues. With the 7950 that changed somewhat. You probably missed it in our test session, but Crysis 2 would no...
Strong Performance, Good Power Consumption, Highly Overclockable, 3GB Frame Buffer, Eyefinity Support
Pricey, Trades Victories With 3GB GeForce GTX 580 OC
Let's start with the drivers. In preparation for this article, AMD sent over the latest Catalyst driver suite that not only added support for the Radeon HD 7950, but reportedly offered performance improvements for the 7970. With that in mind, we re-ran al...
Abstract: Often times AMD and Nvidia release their flagship GPUs with the launch of a new series of graphics card, but it’s the one under the newly crowned king that people most look forward to, the price/performance champion of the people. And in between all th...
Nearly as fast as the much pricier HD 7970, Improved power savings when idle, Support for 4K video and other forward-looking features
Expensive, 4K video content and screens likely won't be common for a year or more
AMD's Radeon HD 7970 may be the new single-GPU video-card performance leader, but at $100 less and nearly as fast, the HD 7950 is the smarter buy if you're looking for both power and value. (Like its sibling, however, some of its future-looking features...
Throughout the review we compared the HD 7950 to the HD 7970 on multiple occasions. The reason behind this is because both models are based on the same core architecture, but the HD 7950 has slightly lower specifications so it can fit into a more affor...
Abstract: Today AMD launched their new HD 7950, which aims at being a high-end graphics card due to its pricing, which is comparative to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580 with its current market pricing. AMD is aiming at higher energy efficiency compared to its market ri...
Before our analysis, we have to explain that we re-tested the Radeon HD 7970 using the latest drivers provided by AMD, and that is the reason that the numbers for this video card presented in this review are different from the Radeon HD 7970's original re...
Abstract: AMD has finally released Radeon HD 7950, which happens to be the cut-down version of the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card that hit the streets on January 9th, 2012. The AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card is based on the same 'Tahiti' core architecture tha...
Published: 2012-01-30, Author: Matthew , review by: pcmag.com
Good gaming performance for the price. Excellent power usage.
Not appreciably faster than competing Nvidia card on every title. Requires two six-pin power supply cables. Blocks an adjacent expansion slot
For PC gamers who want high frame rates but don't want to pay more than $500 to get them, AMD's new Radeon HD 7950 video card is a compelling, powerful choice....
Good performance increase vs. HD 6950, Excellent energy efficiency, Outstanding overclocking potential, Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output, Dual BIOS, 3 GB of memory with 384-bit bus, Adds support for PCI-Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, Support for
Noisy in 3D, Price could be lower, CCC Overdrive limits too low
AMD's Radeon HD 7950 is finally released after what seemed like an eternity after the HD 7970 launch. The reference design of the card looks just like its older brother. Internally we see less shaders, reduced clock speeds, one power phase less and two...
