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Sapphire HD7870 FleX Edition Review

Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.

Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

  • Multiple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 / OpenGL) render
  • Cross-platform: MS Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) / Linux
  • Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
  • Multicore CPU support
  • Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
  • Powerful C++ API
  • Comprehensive performance profiling system
  • Flexible XML-based data structures

We use the following settings: 1920×1080 resolution. Anti Aliasing off. Anisotrophy 4, Tessellation normal. Shaders High. Stereo 3D disabled. API: Direct X 11.

The overclocked HD7870 FleX isn't too far behind the reference clocked HD7950 in this test, and it manages to outperform the flagship Nvidia GTX580 from the previous generation.

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5 comments

  1. wicked card – battlefield 3 in three screens must be incredible.

  2. been waiting on this for a while now. 7950 is just too much for my system. excellent review, thanks.

  3. whats happened to XFX lately? they went so quiet. Sapphire are running amok.

    Oh yeah, nice review man, got a lot of info from this. might go for their 7950 it looks sweet.

  4. Awesome.

    I might go for this next month as I just bought two extra cheap dell screens on sale.