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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Reviews

Thinkdigit

01/2012

AMD Radeon 7970 Review

The perpetual war for supremacy between AMD and Nvidia constantly leaves enthusiasts dodging shrapnel: When you want the best video card you can afford, why buy one now instead of waiting for the better one the competing chipset designer will undoubtedly release in a few months? This leaves reviewers in a tough spot, too, as we're constantly proclaiming that nearly every new card is the fastest ever. But because you can only live in the world you live in, we're obliged to go there. So, here goes once again: The just-released AMD Radeon HD 7970 ($549 list) is the latest fastest and most feature-rich single-GPU card ever, surpassing our previous Editors' Choice winner, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580. Though we have little doubt that Nvidia will yank back that title with its next generation of cards, the 7970 is an impressive achievement for the moment. (It's rumored to become widely available by early January of 2012.) The inaugural member of the Southern Islands family, it utilizes a fresh architecture AMD refers to as "Graphics Core Next." Based on a new 28nm process technology and utilizing more than 4.3 billion transistors, Graphics Core Next uses a revised instruction set architecture, gives each compute unit the ability to simultaneously execute instructions from multiple kernels, and delivers an increased number of instructions per clock cycle per square millimeter of GPU space.

DigitalVersus

12/2011

10/10

Graphics Card Reviews

The Radeon HD 7970 uses AMD’s Southern Islands GPU architecture for the first time. This prospect is mouthwatering, combined as it is with the 28nm engraving, implementation of PCIe 3.0 and DirectX 11.1 compatibility, all for the first time. The 7970 also has much improved 2D energy consumption, 3 GB of GDDR5 memory and no fewer than 2048 processing units. There’s a clear break with the Radeon HD 6000 generation. There’s little new to report when it comes to the size of the card. It’s of standard length for this range (27.5 cm) and there’s a double-decker AMD heatsink. The hot air is mainly expelled from the chassis and once again there’s a vapour chamber radiator (6th gen). The noise levels generated by the fan are more or less in line with the Radeon HD 6970: pretty low when it’s in idle and extremely loud during gaming. During 3D gaming, it’s particularly annoying for anyone sitting in the vicinity – and perhaps watching television – especially as the fan tends to speed up and down, constantly alternating rotation speed. On introducing the Radeon HD 7970, AMD had plenty to say in praise of its low energy consumption. ZeroCore Power technology is now included and allows you to reduce energy consumption at idle by up to 24% by deactivating several of the card’s processing units.

TechSpot

12/2011

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review

For the last 12 months, AMD has had the Radeon HD 6970 be its premier single GPU graphics card, competing head to head with the GeForce GTX 570 and at times challenging the mighty GTX 580. For about $369 today, you can still get one hell of a graphics card, comprised of 2.6 billion transistors, a die measuring 389mm2 and a 250W TDP rating, but most importantly capable of running all modern PC games fluidly except for some extreme scenarios. When compared to its previous generation board (the Radeon HD 5870), the Radeon HD 6970 was on average 24% faster. Now a year later AMD is launching its Radeon HD 7000 series which has been given the codename 'Southern Islands'. The Radeon HD 7970 is the first of a series of upcoming graphics cards that are making the jump to the 28nm fabrication process. The new HD 7970 will effectively become AMD's new flagship single GPU graphics card come January, when the board is expected to ship. The die shrink means AMD can cram more transistors into the same space, a lot more. Although the die size is only slightly smaller, at 365mm2 there are some 1.7 billion more transistors, taking the total count to a whopping 4.3 billion.

TechRadar

12/2011

7.0/10

AMD Radeon HD 7970 review

So here it is, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 and, for the time being, it's the fastest graphics card around. AMD has blinked first and opted to release its brand new graphics card architecture before Nvidia, and just before the new year. It's a brave move by AMD though. Bringing out a radically different graphics design spec, compared with its previous vector processors, in the same year as it brought us a brand new CPU architecture. Especially given the depressing failure of the AMD FX chips.We've seen little bits from AMD about its new architecture, the plainly-named Graphics Core Next, before, but now it's humming away in our test bench and throwing pixels and polygons around our high-res screens without a care in the world.Well, maybe the AMD Radeon HD 7970 does have some cause for concern considering Nvidia is set to launch its newest graphics architecture, code-named Kepler, in the early Spring of 2012.Maybe that's why the timing of this release is so odd. AMD has decided to effectively launch the Radeon HD 7970 just three days before Christmas, a notorious deadspot in technology news.

HotHardware

12/2011

AMD Radeon HD 7970: 28nm Tahiti GPU Review

We have been hearing about AMD's \"Southern Island” family of graphics processors for quite some time. Even during briefings for the Northern Island series of products which ultimately became the Radeon HD 6000 series, news about Southern Islands was already trickling out. Rumors about these parts have been rampant for what seems like ages, but now, just in time to get all you hardcore gamers fired up this holiday season, AMD is officially taking the wraps of Southern Islands. More specifically, today AMD is announcing their latest flagship single-GPU, the Radeon HD 7970. As you may suspect, if you paid attention to Eric Demer's excellent keynote address at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit and the resulting onslaught of news that followed, the top-of-the-line GPU in the Southern Islands family—codenamed Tahiti—features AMD's totally new Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. In addition to being the first GPU to feature GCN, Tahiti is also AMD's first GPU to be manufactured at 28nm, their first with PCI Express 3.0 connectivity, the first with DirectX 11.1 support, and the first to sport a few other new technologies we'll cover a little later (ZeroCore, PRT, multi-point audio).

PCMAG

12/2011

9.0/10

AMD Radeon HD 7970

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HIS Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5 Eyefinity 2x Mini-Displayport HDMI DL DVI-I HDCP PCI Express 3.0 X16 Graphics Card H797F3G2M	$455.99	See it
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PowerColor Radeon HD7970 925 MHz 3GB DDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Cards AX7970 3GBD5-M2DHG	$654.64	See it
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