AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review Feat. Sapphire & XFX: Sewing Up The High-End Market
by Ryan Smith on January 31, 2012 9:02 AM ESTOverclocking: Game & Compute Performance
We’ll keep the commentary thin here, but overall the overclocked performance of the 7950s looks very good. The XFX 7950 BEDD has the lead among the 7950s due to its slightly higher overclock of 1050MHz, while the 7950s as a whole enjoy anywhere between a 2% to 10% lead over the 7970. It’s clear that if you want a 7970’s gaming performance at a slightly lower price then the 7950 can deliver on that through overclocking—and there seems to be little reason not to pursue it—but you’re going to have to pay the price on power consumption to get there.
The compute performance gap on the other hand can’t be closed quite as easily. Overclocking can help, but if you need a 7900 series card for a heavy compute workload there’s no making up for the lost CU array; you’d still need a 7970.
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Finally - Monday, February 6, 2012 - link
"While the performance is impressive, the pricing is just ridiculous and leaves a bittter taste in the mouth."That's why you don't put your GPUs in the mouth and chew on them...
kallogan - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
Lamest pricing policy ever. AMD has apparently decided to stop selling gpus. Fine.Love the undervolted/Oced Sapphire. Undervolting is my way of life.
mdlam - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
Why do you post this nonsense on a 7900 discussion? Does anyone who owns a top tier video card give a rats behind about undervolting? No. That's why you spend 30 dollars and buy a hd6770.kallogan - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
You must have been hurt in some ways by my comment cause you're being agressive kitty.Look at the power consumption and noise levels. The sapphire despite a 100mhz OC blows every other card.
You can't say it's useless.
Ryan1981 - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
The website of sapphire is listing a stock clocked version of the 7950:http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?...
Just thought I'd include it.
Ryan1981 - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
Ok after closer examination, almost stock, 810 Mhz Core clock.poohbear - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
can you please use resolutions that the avg user uses? whats thsi 1980x1200 nonsense? who games at that resolution? by far the most popular resolutions are 1650x1050 & 1920 x1080. why not just post figures for those instead of having us guessing?UMADBRO - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
HERP!1920x1080 is 16:9, 1920x1200 is 16:10.
DERP!
Black Obsidian - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
Not to mention that if you game at 1680x1050, you don't need a high-end card anyway, and so have no reason to care how they benchmark at your Cro-magnon resolution. If you get a real monitor (1920x1200 or higher), you can come back for the performance numbers already provided in the article.piroroadkill - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
My machines basically all use 16:10 screens. I have two laptops with 15" 1920x1200 screens, my main monitor is a U2410.. 1920x1200..