Testseek.com have collected 276 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 PCIe.
December 2011
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The editors liked
The Radeon HD 7970 overclocks at over 1GHz
Great Performance
Awesome Feature Set
Good Power Consumption
DX11.1 Support (eventually)
Driver Maturity Likely To Further Enhance Performance
Fastest single-GPU graphics card we've tested to date
Significantly faster than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580
Especially at extreme resolutions
Improved power savings when idle
Support for 4K video and other forward-looking features
Best-in-class video performance
Low all-around power usage
Solid performance increase
Low power consumption
Excellent overclocking potential
Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output
Dual BIOS
3 GB of memory
Adds support for PCI-Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1
Support for multiple independent audio streams
The editors didn't like
The card is very big and generates more heat than competing cards do
Not Available Yet
Going To Be Pricey
Extremely expensive
4K video content and TVs likely won't be common for a year or more
Expensive
Performance advantage edges off at highest resolutions
Requires two PCIe power connectors
Blocks a second expansion slot
Noisy in 3D
High price
CCC Overdrive limits too low
PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking
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With a new architecture, the introduction of the 28 nm manufacturing process and over four billion transistors, the Tahiti GPU and the Radeon HD 7970 have been the cause of much excitement. Has AMD managed to do as well as it did with the launch of Cyp...
Fastest single-GPU graphics card we've tested to date, Significantly faster than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580, especially at extreme resolutions, Improved power savings when idle, Support for 4K video and other forward-looking features
Extremely expensive, 4K video content and TVs likely won't be common for a year or more
AMD retakes the crown for single-chip gaming-graphics performance with the Radeon HD 7970. With its high price, however, and the fact that some of its future-looking features are far over the horizon, discerning gamers may want to wait before buying. Rea...
Abstract: With the release of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 it’s clear that AMD has once again regained the single-GPU performance crown. But while the 7970’s place in the current GPU hierarchy is well established, we’re still trying to better understand the ins and ou...
The AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card based on the Tahiti processor with the Graphics Core Next architecture is undoubtedly the fastest single-GPU solution available today. And it will remain such until Nvidia’s next-generation Kepler-based products. T...
Obviously when testing a set up this extreme the conclusion is pretty academic.No-one in their right mind would run Quadfire. It takes too much power, we needed two Corsair AX1200 PSUs for this test. It produces too much heat. It's stupidly expensive, any...
Published: 2012-01-02, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
For several generations now, whenever a new Radeon GPU was making its debut, I have bugged AMD Graphics CTO Eric Demers about whatever features were missing compared to the competition. There have always been feature deficits, whether it be graphics-orie...
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