Testseek.co.uk 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
Amazing GPU core overclocking
Good memory overclocking
Good cooling
Great performance especially at Highres
Quiet (when fan below 40%)
Good looking design
Black PCB
Silly fast FPS figures
Blistering Performance
Cool running
Low Noise
Good overall package
Small dimensions
Competitive pricing
Fastest single
GPU card around
Huge overclocking potential
Impressive power management tech
Brandnew design suited for graphics and compute
Fastest singleGPU card around
A wellbalanced GPU
Strong powerdraw credentials
Jump in performance on old generation
Improved standby energy consumption with ZeroCore Power
Quiet in idle
DirectX 11.1 compatible
New performance leader in the single GPU sector
Latest vapor cooler is a solid advancement for AMD
Power drain is excellent
The editors didn't like
Expensive
Loud fan above 40%
Deafening at 100%
Only one DVI port
Do not scale as well as AMD cards
More expensive than the AMD competition
Huge price
Tag
Cannot justify it with enough performance gains
Immature drivers
Price
It brings other multiGPU solutions very much into play
Noisy during gaming
3D energy consumption is relatively high
Single fan
Around £450
It is expensive
Our sample experienced some unusual horizontal sync lock issues with some monitors/televisions
Kitguru says
A new performance leader for AMD and a strong end to the year
Abstract: Unless you have been living under a large rock and are a self-confessed technophobe, NVIDIA's launch of the impressive GeForce GTX 680 graphics card will most certainly have grabbed your attention. Righting many of the wrongs present in the Fermi architec...
Talk of new technology and new cards being delivered onto the market is always a fantastic thing in this industry, and it gives consumers something to look forward to, gives retailers an opportunity to market and gives us reviewers something new to test a...
Jump in performance on old generation, Improved standby energy consumption with ZeroCore Power, Quiet in idle, DirectX 11.1 compatible
Noisy during gaming, 3D energy consumption is relatively high
AMD has managed to engineer a card with a significant improvement in performance in comparison to the previous generation at the same time as including some innovations that reduce energy consumption significantly. It is nevertheless advisable to wait ...
Amazing GPU core overclocking, Good memory overclocking, Good cooling, Great performance especially at Highres, Quiet (when fan below 40%), Good looking design, Black PCB,
Expensive, Loud fan above 40%, deafening at 100%, Only one DVI port
So there we have it. AMD have made some great leaps today. Not only are they the first to the GPU scene with 28nm archetecture but they have implemented some neat little features, an improved cooling design and best of all, very impressive overclockin...
New performance leader in the single GPU sector, latest vapor cooler is a solid advancement for AMD, power drain is excellent,
Single fan, around £450, it is expensive, our sample experienced some unusual horizontal sync lock issues with some monitors/televisions, Kitguru says: A new performance leader for AMD and a strong end to the year, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The battle for graphics card dominance in the high end sector rarely slows down. The AMD HD7970 is the first major release for AMD in a very long time and it has succeeded in ousting the nVidia GTX580 from the top position in the single GPU marketplace.Th...
Abstract: A sample of AMD's next-generation Radeon HD 7970 landed in our lab just before Santa. Don't cross your fingers for one of these in your stocking, though. It's not available yet. Is it fast, though? Our benchmarks suggest yes, but more testing remains! ...
