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
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Summing up this review poses a number of challenges for us. On one hand, the HD 7970 GHz Edition performs very well across nearly every one of our benchmarks but no one seems to know how widely available the 1GHz / 6Gbps SKU will actually be. Most boar...
Performance of the AMD Radeon HD 7990 + HD 7970 GHz Edition CrossFireX setup was better than I thought it would be. It's been a while since we looked at a three-way setup, and it seems evident that AMD have been working on improving the performance of th...
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...
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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...
