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We are using the latest version of Sapphire TriXX for our testing today. This software works great with all AMD graphics hardware.
Clearly plenty of headroom on the HD7950 core, we managed to increase the clock from 800 mhz to 1,100mhz, which translates to around 39%! Memory could be pushed from 1,250 mhz to 1,362mhz (5,448mhz). Fantastic results.
The huge overclock helps push the HD7950 performance well past the reference clocked HD7950. The score increases from 6,799 points to a very tasty 8,611 points!
We have never seen a card respond as well to overclocking as the HD7950. It brings back memories of the fun we had with the GTX460 hardware, when Nvidia first launched … the increases are staggering. When overclocked to 1,100mhz, the card outperforms the reference clocked HD7970, which is impressive.
Looks like a play on the reference design. very poor showing compared to XFX and Sapphire cards today….
would probably have been ok if they all used the crap cooler on launch day, but after reading the Sapphire review this looks so bad 🙁
This is exactly why HIS, Powercolor, Sparkle and all those crappy eastern makes never do well here. They just dont know how to target the enthusiast user. XFX and Sapphire are different. I bet Sapphire dont like XFX in their sector now. real competition heating up between those two for the top spot.
Fastest single chip video card.Runs cool and very quiet even at full load, gave me 40-45% extra performance than my 6970 HIS icecool,no crashes after hours of gaming!
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-21197-00-40G/dp/B006P88VO8?tag=emjay2d-20
great review-the most important point being that cooler cannot really handle the 7950 unless you have a large case and play games in a freezer-even then I doubt the cooler has enough capacity to continuously draw off enough heat to completely prevent instability problems under intense gaming conditions