AMD Radeon HD 7950 & XFX R7950 Black Edition Video Card Review
The Test System
Before we look at the numbers, let’s take a brief look at the test
system that was used. All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows
7 Ultimate 64-bit and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no
other software programs running.
The AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested with Catalyst 11.12 drivers with the exception of the Radeon HD 7900 series and those were tested with 8.921.2 RC11 drivers. All of the NVIDIA graphics cards ran GeForce 290.53 Beta drivers.
Intel X79/LGA2011 Platform
The Intel X79 platform that we used to test the all of the video cards was running the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe motherboard with BIOS 0055 that came
out on 12/16/2011. The Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz quad channel
memory kit was set to 1866MHz with 1.5v and 9-10-9-27 1T memory timings. The OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD was run with firmware version 2.15.
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Component |
Brand/Model |
Live Pricing |
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Processor |
Intel Core i7-3960X |
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Motherboard |
ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
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Memory |
16GB Corsair 1866MHz
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Video Card |
Various |
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Solid-State Drive |
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB |
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Cooling |
Intel RTS2011LC |
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Power Supply |
Corsair HX850W | ||||
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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Video Cards Tested:
- AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB -925MHz Core / 1375MHz Memory
- XFX R7950 Black Edition Overclocked 3072MB – 900MHz Core / 1375MHz Memory
- AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB – 800MHz Core / 1250MHz Memory
- AMD Radeon HD 6990 OC 2048MB -880MHz Core / 1370MHz Memory
- XFX Radeon HD 6970 2048MB – 880MHz Core / 1375MHz Memory
- MSI Radeon HD 6950 1024MB – 850MHz Core / 1300MHz Memory
- Gigabyte Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock 1024MB – 850MHz Core / 1200MHz Memory
- ASUS GeForce GTX 590 1536MB – 613MHz Core/1225MHz Shader/855MHz Memory
- EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 3072MB- 855MHz Core/1710MHz Shader/1053MHz Memory
- ASUS GeForce GTX 580 1536MB – 816MHz Core/1632MHz Shader/1002MHz Memory
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB – 732MHz Core/1464MHz Shader/950MHz Memory
- EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win 1024MB – 850MHz Core/1700MHz Shader/1002MHz Memory
- MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core PE 1280MB – 750MHz Core/1500MHz Shader/975MHz Memory
- ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti TOP 1024MB – 925MHz Core/1850MHz Shader/1050MHz Memory
AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU-Z Information:
XFX R7950 Black Edition GPU-Z Information:
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