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MSI R7970 Lightning Graphics Card Review (Twin Frozr IV)

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

Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7. This is the first edition where the feature-restricted, free of charge version could not be used any number of times. 1280×1024 resolution was used with performance settings.

The force is strong at these clock speeds, showing huge increases over the reference clocked card. The MSI R7970 Lightning is actually only 1,400 points behind the dual GPU HD6990 flagship from the last generation.

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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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