3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.
After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.
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3DMark 11 is an intensive Direct X 11 benchmark, and both cards score as we would expect, around 9,000 and 7,400 points for the HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo & HIS HD7950 IceQ respectively.
I always worry about warranty with HIS, they dont seem to have much support in UK
The 7970 looks good, nice looking cooler and great performance, but I wont order from OCUK, ever. too many bad experiences
Excellent, I like both of these, but they always appeared as a more budget make to me, the prices are just as high as Sapphire/.XFX etc