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
Competition is great for consumers. AMD will be shipping the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition in the next couple of weeks, at roughly £400 -- cheaper than the original and in the same price ballpark as the GTX 680. On a purely performance basis, the new Rade...
Abstract: After watching its Radeon HD 7970 get outperformed first by Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680, and then its 670, AMD is striking back with higher clocks and a new driver that hits the afterburners in several games. But are the gains worth paying extra for? Can ...
In a majority of the benchmarks the new Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is faster than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680. Mission accomplished for AMD, now they can again say they have the fastest single-GPU graphics card around. AMD's exact plans for the Radeon H...
When starting this review we took the decision to look purely at gaming performance in enthusiast conditions. The reason? Well this is an enthusiast product and the reality is that the reference design card will not be sold in any significant quantity, if...
One of the highest default clock speeds around, Great performance
No physical improvements on previous Radeon HD 7970, High temperature, High power consumption, Fan is very loud at high speeds
The AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition proves that the card has what it takes to compete with NVIDIA, but at US$499, $20 more than the existing HD 7970, it's hard to justify spending the extra money for an overclock that will take you five minutes to do by yo...
Abstract: If you're thinking about building a new gaming system for 2013, you might be looking at one of these two enthusiast-class, flagship graphics cards: AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680. Both have recently released updated drivers,...
Abstract: Today's review will focus on how the official increased clock frequencies of the 7970 GHz edition aka Tahiti XT2 – 1050MHz on the core (13.5% increase from 925MHz) and 1500MHz on the memory (9% increase from 1375MHz), help peg back or increase the perform...
