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If you are thinking of upgrading your system before Christmas then we have two highly modified graphics cards on test today from HIS which should prove interesting. The HIS HD 7950 IceQ is competitively priced at £239.99 and features a large custom cooler and out of the box overclocked speeds. The high end HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² Turbo is £100 more expensive and features a two fan cooler with highly overclocked core and memory speeds. The big question needs answered today … are they worth a purchase?
We have reviewed many graphics cards from HIS in the last couple of years and have rated their modified, overclocked solutions quite highly. Thankfully they ditched their ugly translucent blue coolers for more appealing designs this year.
| Product | HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo | HIS HD7950 IceQ | AMD HD7870 | AMD HD7850 |
| Core Clock speed | 1050mhz | 925mhz | 1000mhz | 860mhz |
| Transistors | 4.31 billion | 4.31 billion | 2.8 billion | 2.8 billion |
| Stream Processors | 2,048 | 1,792 | 1,280 | 1,024 |
| Compute Performance | 3.79 TFLOPS | 2.87 TFLOPS | 2.56 TFLOPS | 1.76 TFLOPS |
| Texture Units | 128 | 112 | 80 | 64 |
| Texture Fillrate | 134.4 GT/s | 103.6 GT/s | 80 GT/s | 55.0 GT/s |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Pixel Fillrate | 33.6 GP/s | 25.6 GP/s | 32.0 GP/s | 27.52 GP/s |
| Z/Stencil | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Memory Type | 3GB GDDR5 | 3GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 1,500mhz |
1,250mhz | 1,200mhz | 1,200mhz |
| Memory Data Rate | 6.0 GBps | 5.0 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 240 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s |
The HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo is clocked at 1,050mhz core and the 3GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,500mhz (6Gbps effective). The HIS HD7950 IceQ is clocked at 925mhz and the 3GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,250mhz (5Gbps effective). Both cards have the GDDR5 memory connected via a 384 bit memory interface and have 32 ROPS. The HD7950 has 1,792 shaders and the HD7970 2,048 shaders.
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