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
First let’s talk about the numbers, as we saw some pretty compelling frame rates from the Radeon HD 7970. In the dozen games we tested with, the Radeon HD 7970 was on average 42% faster than the Radeon HD 6970. That’s a mind blowing result when you con...
Great Performance, Awesome Feature Set, Good Power Consumption, DX11.1 Support (eventually), Driver Maturity Likely To Further Enhance Performance
Not Available Yet, Going To Be Pricey
With that said, we do think the performance profile we've laid out for you here is likely to change significantly as AMD is able to wring more performance from their new architecture. NVIDIA was able to drastically enhance Fermi's performance as the compa...
We finally have our first 28nm GPU and while the performance was not exactly earth shattering, the HD 7970 is still a strong graphics card that easily outperforms all single GPU solution, and has an improved performance per watt ratio over the previous...
The launch of the Radeon HD 7970 has presented us with a great deal of data and even more subjects to consider, so it's difficult in the best of times to try to whittle this down to a single conclusion. Nevertheless, based on our testing I believe there a...
As the first 28nm GPU, the HD 7970 3GB was always going to be exciting; with such a significant step down in transistor size and subsequent increase in stream processors and clock speeds, the GPU was always going to have enormous performance potential....
Final Words & Conclusion AMD finally has an answer at hand to dethrone the mighty GeForce GTX 580, and with a decent enough margin. The new GPU architecture seems to work out well and definitely is more capable then the last generation GPUs. We notic...
If you love fast graphics cards, you are simply going to be infatuated with the new Radeon HD 7970. For the first time in a couple of generations, AMD will have the fastest single-GPU solution on the market - at least until we see what NVIDIA is going to...
Abstract: CodeName Southern Islands December 2011 22th, launch of the new HD7900 series, and starting with the HD7970 card. AMD showed us a presentation in Powerpoint format with impressive numbers, which must be verified with a sample on-hand by using a larg...
This review really surprised me. I expected it to be better than the HD 6970 but not to the level of the HD 6990. I had hoped it would beat the GTX 580, but didn't have a clue by how much it would do so. Instead, we see a GPU that is tantamount to pari...
