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MSI R7970 Lightning Graphics Card Review (Twin Frozr IV)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 19, 2012 Featured Announcement, Graphics

To overclock today we used the latest beta of the MSI Afterburner software tool which allows for 3 way voltage tweaking.

We managed to push the core clock to 1260mhz, from 1070mhz, which translates to an almost 18% increase. The memory maxed out at 1478 mhz, or a 3.7% increase.

When the card is manually pushed to the limits, we achieved a score of 9,821 points, almost in line with the HD6990. Great results.

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15 comments

  1. Joe
    March 19, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Lovely, very nice, and yet again very expensive……… we can only dream!

  2. Muppett
    March 19, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Wow… so thats £500 for a card with no copper used as a cooling material, and Aluminum used instead,
    thats a less ductile material = an inferior cooling solution, using a cheapr material for more money…

    MSI really know how to impress – or charge more for using cheaper materials!!!

  3. Benjamin
    March 19, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Good point from muppett, copper might have improved on the results by 1-2 c more.

    however, the end result is great as the testing shows.

  4. neliz
    March 20, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    @muppet:

    Actually the Cooler material is copper, but it’s nickel coated, so it doesn’t corrode (very, VERY easy with copper)
    Only the fin array is made of Aluminium

  5. Progeny
    May 10, 2012 at 12:46 am

    I take it 12.3 drivers were used for this test and the other custom 7970’s?

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