Manufacturer: AMD Price: $ US Author: Steve Date: 12/23/2011

[ Test System Specs & 3Dmark 11 ]

Test System Specs Hardware - Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz) - x4 2GB G.Skill DDR3-1600(CAS 8-8-8-20) - Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) - AMD Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) Crossfire - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6990 (4096MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) - VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 (2048MB) - Asus Radeon HD 6870 (1024MB) - HIS Radeon HD 5870 (1024MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (3072MB) SLI - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 (3072MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024MB) - Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 (1536MB) - Palit GeForce GTX 470 (1280MB) - Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79) - OCZ ZX Series (1250w) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 285.62 - AMD Catalyst 11.12 According to 3Dmark 11 the Radeon HD 7970 is 39% faster than the GeForce GTX 580 and 50% faster than the Radeon HD 6970. Those are some pretty amazing results, so let’s move on to the games to confirm their accuracy.

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ProX	Posted on: 12/27/2011 08:07 PM Amazing performance. Let's hope Nvidia can give AMD some incentive to make them cheaper

ftp	Posted on: 12/29/2011 08:32 PM Far too expensive for me Still the performance is nice but I will have to wait for cheaper models.

skully

Posted on: 12/29/2011 09:34 PM great to see Amd putting up a real fight. will be interesting to see what Nvidia returns fire with.

handstand

Posted on: 12/30/2011 12:31 AM Good review. It's fast but not fast enough to justify upgrading from a GF-110.