"HD7970 & HD7950 Results Thread - Torture Your Card, Post It Here!"

[hokiealumnus]

These things are going to become available in a under a week now and you know some people are going to just jump at the chance to see what their new card can do. (Heh, assuming there is enough availability for people to, you know, buy them.) So I'm starting a little early and showing what I could do with the card now that we have a little voltage to play with.

The Old.

If your card doesn't have voltage control to begin with, you'll need to finesse it a bit to get the most out of it.

• First, grab ASUS' new GPU Tweak software from here. (They're hoping to compete with MSI's afterburner with that piece of software. This is a beta.)
• Then, grab a replacement BIOS that will give you voltage control with that software.

The New.

Before Sapphire TRIXX & MSI Afterburner, we had to take the more circuitous route above. Now those two are out and can adjust voltage on any card - no BIOS flash necessary.

• You can get the latest version of MSI's Afterburner (2.2.0, beta 12, dated 2/2/12) at Guru3D
• Grab the latest version of TRIXX on Sapphire's page.

Now, some results! These are what I was able to get with a 3960X under water (with an impassable ambient 5.1GHz brick wall) and the AMD reference 7970 on stock cooling. These things are serious powerhouse cards. :attn:

HWBot Heaven Xtreme DX11: 2869.539 - currently the #2 highest score for a single GPU on the bot. It was #1 for just under 24 hours...easy come, easy go. It will surely fall as people put their new cards under extreme cooling.



3DMark 11 - 11724



3DMark Vantage - 44782



Also, just to be clear, this card is the AMD reference card from our review. The GPUz subvendor saying ASUS is simply a function of having an ASUS BIOS flashed to the card.

That's what I've been able to do so far. There are other insane results that trounce me across the web.

• Shamino of ASUS RoG fame got over 15K 3Dmark 11 and over 55K 3DMark Vangage using LN2 on just one of these cards.
• Andre of good LORD that guy's insane fame shows us just how astounding four-way 7970 results on LN2 can be.

Now show us what you've got (or get when you get your card). Hopefully in the not-too-distant future others can come up and whoop my behind, all in the name of ye holy boint (or just seeing what you can do for the heck of it)! There's nothing like a little rear-end stomping to motivate people for higher scores.