Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Dual X

Sapphire HD 7970 Dual X Review

Sapphire has been on the map as an AMD producing card company for years. I personally remember saving away funds to buy a Sapphire card not too long before I had my 4870X2 for so long. Sapphire has always seemed to provide the right price for the same performance of the series. The design of the card is something rather important to me besides the performance alone; Sapphire has always been a bit more aesthetically pleasing with the options it has recently presented. I tend to avoid the typical anime girl on the card or red and black AMD theme if at all possible. Sapphire of course has its share of those cards, but also seem to provide some nice plain cards like the one we will be looking at today. Today we will be looking at the Sapphire HD 7970 OC edition with the new dual-extractor, Dual-X technology. With a highly efficient multi-pipe cooler design incorporating two fans to move the air, it can be both quiet at idle and very cool under heavy load. The HD 7970 has 32 compute units and 2048 stream processors. Rather than the usual 925MHz clock speed, the OC edition is shipped out with a raised speed of 950MHz and a bump on the memory speed to 1425MHz.