12
Jan
AMD Radeon HD7970 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 SLI Performance Review - The World's fastest desktop CPU paired with the world's fastest single GPU graphics card
Article Index
AMD Radeon HD7970 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 SLI Performance Review
Tahiti – the destination for extreme graphics performance ?
The World's fastest desktop CPU paired with the world's fastest single GPU graphics card
Test system specifications and Methodology
Overall System Performance
Power Consumption
Thermal Dissipation
Video Acceleration
GPU Computing
3D Performance
Driving and Racing Games
Flight and Open World Games
First Person Games
Third Person Games
Arcade and Strategy Games
HTML5 and Visual Web Performance
Professional Graphics
Verdict

The World's fastest desktop CPU paired with the world's fastest single GPU graphics card

 

CPU and GPU have come a long way in ten years. History repeats itself with recycled model numbers. Ten years ago the Radeon 7000 (ATI model RV100) was poised as ATI's entry level Radeon graphics card which would be paired with Intel's Pentium III, Pentium 4 or even AMD Athlon. Ten years later Radeon HD 7000 represents the latest innovative graphics technology that makes the ten-year-old Radeon 7000 look primitive.

Top:ATI Radeon 7000 (RV100) Bottom: AMD Radeon HD 7970 (Tahiti XT). Card length is 280 mm.

Although only four ports this time around, DisplayPort hubs and daisy chain allow connection of six displays

The card's housing has been redesigned to improve cooling with focus on rear air intakes and a taper to improve cooling in crossfire

HD7970 3GB Reference card - Back side

Back of the card showing the GPU, capacitors for each of the GDDR5 memory chips, display outputs and regional certification markings.

 

Power supply - rear side. Note the solder pads for extra components to support alternate versions. and the clusters of components  in a circular direction that support the 3GB of GDDR5 memory

GPU-Z 0.5.7 displaying GPU specs

Windows 7 Display Property and HD7970 Catalyst Drivers - Press Launch edition based on Catalyst 11.12

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