Radeon HD 7950 benchmarked, pitted against several other cards

[Lanek]

Nice thanks.

Can i ask you if the beta driver used, 20jan is the 8.95 or 8.91 ? I find your 3Dmark11 pretty high for the 7970.

[cold2010]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/..._card_review/1

If we see the price drop to $399.99 or below in 60 days, we will change the award to a GOLD.

[SKYMTL]

Ryan from Anandtech forgot to update his XFX card's BIOS with the version that's shipping with retail cards.

[Lanek]

Ryan from Anandtech forgot to update his XFX card's BIOS with the version that's shipping with retail cards.

What#s the difference between both ?

[SKYMTL]

Our results post retail BIOS update:




Anandtech's results:




Basically, XFX emailed all media days before launch stating that their retail cards had revised fan speed profiles that allowed for slightly increased temperatures but kept the fans MUCH quieter. They sent us all a the retail BIOS file with the proper speeds. What you see above are the differences between the beta and the final release BIOS.

[Aruffell]

Some reviews for you all including a video review:

http://www.eteknix.com/reviews/graph...s-card-review/

and

http://www.eteknix.com/reviews/graph...-video-review/

[Lanek]

Our results post retail BIOS update:

..........

Basically, XFX emailed all media days before launch stating that their retail cards had revised fan speed profiles that allowed for slightly increased temperatures but kept the fans MUCH quieter. They sent us all a the retail BIOS file with the proper speeds. What you see above are the differences between the beta and the final release BIOS.

Cant be much clear.... thanks.

[matose]

ASIC quality and overclockability analyzed between AMD HD 7950, Sapphire HD 7950 OC Edition and AMD HD 7970 here. On that link you can find also the results with AMD reference HD 7950 overclocked to 1250MHz GPU / 1750MHz memory.

[Migi06]

Finnish review muropaketti.com

[GoldenTiger]

Sapphire HD 7950 Dual Fan OC Review: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...oc-review.html

Shame the pricing of the whole series is so relatively high... that card looks great, but not $500 great (on newegg at the moment) for crossfire ($1k). Noise level and cooling capabilities seem nice on it. Hopefully once Kepler hits pricing on both that and it will be lower. I'd love a Kepler with that sort of HSF for SLI .

[Andrew LB]

now im not sure what 285 u were looking at, when both cards were current they were about even and the 4890 is xfire did alot better than the 285 in sli, and the 4890 oced better and scalled better with the OC.

Umm... at high resolutions the GTX285 in SLI ran better than the hd4890 CF.

The 285 in SLI flat out destroyed 2x 4890 in CF while running Vantage.

[Olivon]

Hardware.fr

[SKYMTL]

Cant be much clear.... thanks.

I've discussed a bit more with Ryan.

Seems I was wrong as he DID update the BIOS but it still looks like this numbers are quite high. I wonder whether the heatsink on his card is mounted well since I had to remount the cooler on my XFX HD 7970 in order to get optimal fan speeds.