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
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...
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
Noisy in 3D, High price, CCC Overdrive limits too low, PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking
AMD's new Radeon HD 7970 successfully introduces the company's new Graphics Core Next GPU architecture to the market. The move away from the VLIW shaders promises increased flexibility and higher performance, while still retaining compatibility with dr...
The Radeon HD 7970 proved to be the fastest single-GPU video card ever released. It was between 8% and 33% faster than the GeForce GTX 580 in most games we ran. The exceptions were Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where both video cards achieved the same per...
The introduction of a new architecture always carries with it a fair amount of hope and in many cases, a healthy dose of apprehension as well. On one hand, if all the right pieces fall into place a company could be well positioned for the future but if...
With the last generation of video cards from AMD and NVIDIA, a lot of people felt a bit hard done by. Sure, the GTX 480 to GTX 580 and HD 5970 to HD 6970 brought with it some nice performance gains, but there wasn't the technological leap that we wou...
Huge pricetag, Cannot justify it with enough performance gains, Immature drivers
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Published: 2012-03-26, Author: Paul , review by: pcworld.co.nz
while we're not totally blown away by this new card, the Radeon HD 7970 from AMD certainly doesn't embarrass itself. It's clearly the new king of the ring of single-GPU video cards. It brings an interesting bag of new tricks with it, too.Join the PC Wor...
