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

[CplWolverine]

Agreed - heres a youtube clip of the sound - starts at 16seconds when 3dmark started the first test:



See I've had cap whine on previous cards (which is more consistent and high-pitched) - This sound however is more of a crackling sort of sound...... only does it when the card is overclocked (even only slightly using CCC) whilst under load.

Same here. I thought mine needed to be RMA'ed (which it was), but the 2nd (HIS) 7970 does the same thing. I have to say... while this card is great for Battlefield 3 over my GTX580, by far the nVidia cards are of higher quality in general. From the shoddy 2D (2.5D) performance of the AMD cards, to the as usual spotty drivers and slow driver releases... I can't wait for Kepler to be honest.

[st0ned]

Slow driver realeses ? Come on... Nvidia is the one that takes ages to put drivers out... as far as for graphic cards quality you must be joking too... 570GTX ?!?! 590GTX !?! do those ring any bells at all ?

[zoomee]

Slow driver realeses ? Come on... Nvidia is the one that takes ages to put drivers out... as far as for graphic cards quality you must be joking too... 570GTX ?!?! 590GTX !?! do those ring any bells at all ?

Whilst i dont like belittling my 7970, amd shud still be ashamed at the lack of driver support for ud. We still have no 3dmark qualified drivers a month after launch. Looks like i'm gunna miss the asrock oc compo as a result too

Oh n thanks for confirming bowt the noise guys. I can rest in peace now knowing i dont have to take my loop apart. Thnx

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[Levesque]

HOWEVER I note a loud noise coming from the card when I overclock even the slightest - its more a electricity crackling noise than a cap whine! - Anyone else had this?

Yes, I have one of my 4 7970 doing the exact same sound you posted. Worst is in GPU test 1 of 3D Marks 11. The sound is really loud. But in games and other benches, the sound is alot lower.

The 3 other cards are totally silent...

[loften]

that kind of sounds like a fan hitting a shroud or something.. maybe like it speeds up, changes position on the magnets and starts touching the fan shroud?

[Levesque]

I'm using waterblocks on all my 7970s. So it's not a fan noise. Capacitor whine.

[Trox]

Any watercooled 7950? (A)

[Andrea deluxe]

hey boy..

new driver.....

http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-...ary-for-hd7000

[aussie-revhead]

Yes, I have one of my 4 7970 doing the exact same sound you posted. Worst is in GPU test 1 of 3D Marks 11. The sound is really loud. But in games and other benches, the sound is alot lower.

The 3 other cards are totally silent...

Doesn't that indicate that one is faulty? Maybe not Rma-worthy but I like my water cooling to be really quiet so a noisy vid card would piss me off !!!

[owikh84]

7970 x3 @ 1275MHz 1.25v

[hokiealumnus]

Beautiful trifire results!

[OC Nub]

I'm using waterblocks on all my 7970s. So it's not a fan noise. Capacitor whine.

+1 in 3dm03 when fps get extremely high the card whines like a beotch, Im also on water so not a fan issue.

7970 x3 @ 1275MHz 1.25v

Nice results!!!

[MaddMuppet]

Still can't get over how well these cards overclock. Insanely good. I can't wait to see how they go under sub-zero cooling.

[zoomee]

don't get too excited just yet mate.

I was benching last night - no problems at all @ 1185/1700 (stock volts) - 3dmark 11 runs perfectly fine and so did an hour of furmark.

As soon as I launched BF3 though it would crash within 5>7 seconds.

Sooooo. Anyone else get the same? This was using the 'unlocked' BIOS, i'm going to try the MSI and Asus BIOS tonight...

[owikh84]

7970 x3 @ 1275/6600 1.25v/1.6v




Peak power consumption 1364W

[Kallenator]

XFX DD 7950, 1100MHz @ 1200mV , 1575MHz @ 1600mV , +20% power

Probably stable at a bit lower core voltage, gonna need more megahurtz, sure this one can go higher!
No crashes yet from either BF3 nor Heaven.

Was trying to start a 3Dmark11 run, but I think it hates MSI afterburner? :p



There, had to bump core... kinda weird, 2 hours of BF3 should have been taxing enough :S
And, Heaven hates to be ran on a different resolution than what the desktop is.
My FPS is rather low, odd.

[Ourasi]

XFX DD 7950, 1100MHz @ 1200mV , 1575MHz @ xmV , +20% power

Probably stable at a bit lower core voltage, gonna need more megahurtz, sure this one can go higher!
No crashes yet from either BF3 nor Heaven.

Was trying to start a 3Dmark11 run, but I think it hates MSI afterburner? :p

Here is a HD7970@1100/1800 to compare Heaven and 3DM11: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2732941

[Ourasi]

And, Heaven hates to be ran on a different resolution than what the desktop is.
My FPS is rather low, odd.

In an earlier post in this thread I gave instructions on how to maximize MinFPS in Heaven, but I can repeat it so you're screenshot looks a bit nicer: Press F9 to start benchmark on Sceene/Level 2 or the Last Sceene/Level.
Unigine Heaven scales very well on GPU memory bandwidth so my 1800/345.6GB/s really helps on heavy GPU benches, because with HD7970@1100/1575 you are only ~3 FPS behind, and thats not bad at all considering you beat an 900mhz GTX580 by ~20fps, the 7950 looks good imho

[Kallenator]

Thanks again =)

Gonna try that later, as well as OC'ing the card more, as I understand Sapphire Trixx allows higher mem and core clocks?

Nice, that puts the numbers into perspective a bit more, AMD really did good job on this release I think, gonna be exciting to see what Nvidia counter attacks with!

[enkie]

for those who have flashed their card with the asus bios unlocked looked after a bench if the frequencies switch 2d in the ccc or gpu tweak .

[Kallenator]

Newest score, gonna play with this and see how it fares in BF3, cause the air cooling is starting to fall, getting tiny amounts of artifacts during the end of Heaven. Bring on the 7950 water blocks! ^^

*Had to bump the res back to 1200p, messes up my icons if it crashes!

ASIC quality = 62.7%

7950 single , 1160MHz @ 1300mV | 1750MHz @ 1600mV



Not entirely game stable, causes minor texture "stretches", not sure if its caused by too high temperatures, frequencies or both.

[pinto]

First test with watercooled crossfire 1300/1800 1.3v:

[CplWolverine]

Pinto, sweet desktop background! (sorry off-topic :P) where'd you get it? And also nice overclock on those cards. My 2nd card at 64% ASIC will do 1,215 @ 1.3v with 1,700 memory while my first card ASIC 79% will only do 1,190 @ 1.245v and 1,700 memory

[gzhil]

Below is my system configuration:
•Processor: Intel i7 3960x
•Cooler: Thermaltake Advanced Trio
•Motherboard: MSI Big Bang X-Power II
•Memory: Kingston HyperX T1 3x1GB DDR3 2133MHz
•Hard Disk: Corsair Agility 3 120GB
•Power Supply: Antec TPQ 1200W
•Software: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit, Official driver support for Radeon 7970, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Realtemp, Futuremark Benchmark Software, Heaven Benchmark

Processor and video card OC’ed. Specifically the i7 3960x is running at 4.8Ghz and R7970 at 1275Mhz. Except for 3dmark06, the R7970 is only at 1125Mhz and it does not scale well anymore if speed is higher than that.

•3dmark06 – 36518


•3dmark Vantage – P43779


•3dmark11 Performance – P10478


•3dmark11 Extreme – X3567


•Heaven DX11 – 2414.2

[Erklat]

As soon as I launched BF3 though it would crash within 5>7 seconds.

This interests me too. I could run 3Dmark looping for hours, but as soon as I would start playing I'd get a crash within seconds.