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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-06-26 16:43:49.0


Hardware Canucks have reviewed the high performance AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which features 1000MHz base core clock and 6000MHz memory speed.

Let's see what they had to say:

"The HD 7970 GHz certainly isn't the fastest across the board but by that same token, the GTX 680 can no longer be considered the highest performing single GPU card in the world either. What we have here is a statistical tie so the consumer’s performance-oriented choice will ultimately come down to brand preference.

The HD 7970 was always a strong alternative to the Kepler-based products and it’s now received something of a face lift to make it even more appealing.

Performance per watt has certainly taken a step in the right direction, AMD’s Boost works when it has to and pricing is actually quite fair considering its framerate advantage at higher detail settings. In our opinion and with all other things being equal, the HD 7970 GHz Edition is the card to have for ultra high resolution gaming."


While it may use slightly more power and be a bit noisier, this is an excellent alternative to the GeForce GTX 680.

Click here to read the full review.

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