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Sapphire HD7950 MAC Edition Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 23, 2013 Featured Announcement, Graphics, Mac

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This game has a built in FPS monitoring tool.

We selected 2560×1600 resolution and disable Anti aliasing, with other settings on high. Ambient Occlusion is set to full.

This is a very demanding game on OSX and at these settings it was unplayable on the HD5870, often dropping below 20 frames per second. With the HD7950 in place, the frame rate increased enough to ensure it was playable.

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7 comments

  1. Dennis
    March 23, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Wow, thats a heck of a nice card. Mac gamers will be wetting themselves!

  2. Santosh Mishra
    March 23, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    I have mine pre-ordered. fab review, thanks !

  3. Manhss
    March 23, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    Well its extremely expensive, but its just as well Apple didnt get them on their store, or they would probably charge £1000 for the card and fitting!

    Nice to see Sapphire looking outside the usual channels. Mac gamers will have been dying to get something like this for a long time.

  4. Manny
    March 23, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    Wow, £400 for a HD7950. Shame we cant buy the cooler would look awesome in my NZXT side panel modded case !

  5. Greg
    March 24, 2013 at 9:50 am

    About time Apple had a decent up to date video card, but its kind of ironic its coming just before the new range, so in a few months it will already be out of date.

    Perhaps Sapphire will be doing this on a more regular basis for Apple users? I dont know why people are saying its expensive, of course its going to be expensive, the production run will be limited and they wont sell millions. I reckon it might sell ok however, a lot of mac gamers with towers.

  6. Anusha
    March 24, 2013 at 9:51 am

    i love the styling.

    Shame they didnt sell it overclocked at 1000mhz 🙂

  7. assad
    March 26, 2013 at 7:14 am

    Awesome review, many thanks for this. i definitely will buy one for my westmere mac pro.

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