Testseek.co.uk 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
Nice clockspeed bump over vanilla HD 7970
Can make a case for it being best singleGPU card
Everincreasing app ecosystem based on Open CL
Lightning fast performance
Great compute performance
Top GPU on the block
Absolute performance levels
Power use when idle
ZeroCore Power function
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
The editors didn't like
Superstiff competition from NVIDIA's GTX 670 OC
Price
Potentially
Incredibly expensive
And not great value with it
Very noisy when gaming
Power use when running games
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
We're in two minds regarding the HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition. Clearly the higher clock speeds and performance improvements of Catalyst 12.7b has made AMD's high-end far more competitive; it's certainly no longer a case of which Nvidia to buy any more and the...
Same solid graphics quality of the standard Radeon HD 7970. Top notch performance that matches GeForce's flagship GTX 680
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
Since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7970 late last year a lot has changed. The arrival of the GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 670, and the resulting AMD price cuts were the most relevant moves on this segment until today’s release. When we tested the GeForce GTX ...
Bringing things to a close, before writing up this article I spent some time going through our archives to take a look at past GPU reviews. While AMD has routinely retaken the performance crown for a time by beating NVIDIA in releasing next-generation GPU...
Fastest gaming performance in a single GPU card, 3GB of 6GHz GDDR5 and a 384-bit memory bus
Consumes a lot more power than the competition, The 11-inch length is a tight fit in some cases
AMD's new Radeon HD 7970 retakes the game-performance crown and offers excellent GPU compute performance, but it is significantly more power-hungry than its predecessor....
AMD claimed to have the "world's fastest GPU" during our talk with them about this new graphics card a couple weeks back. While I didn't believe them at the time, I have to say I agree today. Based on performance levels at high resolutions, the Radeon HD ...
Abstract: AMD has had a good run in the discrete graphics market for quite some time. With the Radeon HD 5000 series, the company was able to take a commanding mindshare (if not marketshare) lead from NVIDIA. While that diminished some with the HD 6000 series go...
Not Clearly Faster than GTX 680, Louder and Uses More Power Than GTX 680
The AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Reference CardAMD set out to release the fastest single-GPU powered graphics card (again) with the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Did they succeed? Well, that all depends on your perspective. According to our mix of tests...
Published: 2012-06-22, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
So, has AMD gotten the mojo back? Let's boil things down to one of our famous value scatter plots to see. As always, we've sourced prices from Newegg and Amazon, and the performance results are averaged across all of the games we tested. We're relying on...
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
Extremely noisy in 3D, High price, Worse performance/Watt than regular HD 7970, PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking
AMD has achieved its goal: the HD 7970 GHz Edition is the fastest single-GPU graphics card in the world. Thanks to the 125 MHz higher GPU clock, than that of the regular HD 7970, the card beats NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 by about 2% averaged over all our...
AMD took a step forward from the reference video card design by increasing the base operating frequency of the GPU and the memory. There is a small stock performance boost compared to a reference Radeon HD 7970 thanks to the factory overclock and boost cl...
