Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Vapor-X Video Card Review

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 using a fresh install of Windows
7 Ultimate 64-bit and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no
other software programs running.

Drivers used for testing:

• Catalyst 12.9 Beta – All AMD Radeon HD Cards
• GeForce 306.23 – All NVIDIA GeForce Cards

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 0906 that came
out on 12/22/2011. 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 2.22.

The Intel X79 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core i7-3960X	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS P9X79 Deluxe	Click Here
Memory	16GB Corsair 1866MHz	Click Here
Video Card	Various	Click Here
Solid-State Drive	OCZ Vertex 3 240GB	Click Here
Cooling	Intel RTS2011LC	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	Click Here

Video Cards Tested:

• SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB – 950MHz Core / 1250MHz Memory
• AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB – 1000MHz Core / 1200MHz Memory
• XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition 1GB – 860MHz Core / 1200MHz Memory
  
• Zotac GeForce GT 640 Zone Edition 2GB – 902MHz Core / 1782MHz Memory
  
• EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB – 1046MHz Core / 1502MHz Memory
  
• MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB – 1033MHz Core / 1502MHz Memory
• EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC 2GB – 980MHz Core / 1502MHz Memory

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB GPU-Z Information:

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB GPU-Z Idle Temp: