Testseek.com have collected 173 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe.
June 2012
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The editors liked
Same solid graphics quality of the standard Radeon HD 7970. Top notch performance that matches GeForce's flagship GTX 680
Excellent gaming
Compute performance. Now includes dynamic overclocking feature.
Excellent Performance
Competitive Pricing
Eyefinity Support
PowerTune w/ Boost
Fastest gaming performance in a single GPU card
3GB of 6GHz GDDR5 and a 384-bit memory bus
Fast
Good performance increase over HD 7970
Good overclocking potential
Quiet in idle
Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output
Dual BIOS
3 GB of memory
Support for ZeroCore power
Support for PCI-Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1
The editors didn't like
Not a good value when compared to similar cards or factory overclocked Radeon HD 7970 that were already on offer. Runs hotter
Gets louder
And consumes more power than the GTX 680. Most gamers should look for the Radeon HD 7950 or GeForce GTX 670 inste
Only intermittently superior to other top AMD
Nvidia cards. Power-hungry. Loud
Not Clearly Faster than GTX 680
Louder and Uses More Power Than GTX 680
Consumes a lot more power than the competition
The 11-inch length is a tight fit in some cases
Extremely noisy in 3D
High price
Worse performance/Watt than regular HD 7970
PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking
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Noticeable improvement over the original HD7970, Good overclocking headroom, Quiet when non tasked, Dual bios switch is handy, 3GB of GDDR5 memory, Low idle power draw,
Loud when loaded, Price looks to be higher, Added power drain over initial HD7970, Overclocked GTX680 models are faster (and quieter), Kitguru says: Another fast card from AMD, but we are slightly disappointed they didn't develop a new, improved cooling s
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Absolute performance levels, Power use when idle, ZeroCore Power function
Very noisy when gaming, Power use when running games
This improved version of the Radeon HD 7970 is able to rival and even surpass Nvidia on gaming performances. However, you may need to look for a branded version with a different cooling system to cut down on noise when gaming....
