AMD 7950 Benchmarked in 3DMark11

[SieB]

The HD7950 is already looking as a great card for its price, It performs relatively similar to the GTX580 on stock clocks at similar price range – $449 (3GB Variant) $399 (1.5GB Variant) and even performs equal to a HD7970 when overclocked. One thing to note is that the Radeon HD7970 is a overclocking beast, Considering the HD7950 is based on the same core it would offer the same kind of overclocking abilities and require little voltage adjustments to be made to reach a 1000+Mhz Overclock easily.

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[lewwatt]

Sounds great, I'll take this instead of a R7970 if it's unlockable, somehow I don't think AMD will do that anymore.

 

[SieB]

Sounds great, I'll take this instead of a R7970 if it's unlockable, somehow I don't think AMD will do that anymore.

According to elsewhere it has a different PCB so it definitely won't be unlockable. No way was AMD going to make the same mistake twice though

Here is reference card Radeon HD 7950 3GB "built by AMD". Specifications: 800 MHz Core, 5 GHz Memories, different PCB - 99.9 percent non unlockable to HD 7970.

http://www.obr-hardware.com/2012/01/world-exclusive-radeon-hd-7950-by-amd.html

 

[Terrorsathan]

These are looking mighty tasty... I think I'm gonna hang on to my setup for a while yet, and wait to see whats up next year.

 

[ruthless_villain]

i wants!

 

[Azurite]

Thanks for sharing Sieb. Nice scores i must say. Will be difficult not to upgrade, but i have promised myself to choose Nvidia next gpu upgrade

 

[Legacy-ZA]

I am curious to see what the green team will come up with, these cards from AMD are amazing.

 

[SieB]

Some Heaven Benches from OCUK

7950 Stock (NDAMHz Core / NDAMHz Memory)

7950 Maxed on Overdrive CCC (NDAMHz Core / NDAMHz Memory)

7950 Maxed OC on Asus OC BIOS 1680x1050 (NDAMHz Core / NDAMHz Memory)

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NVIDIA GTX 580 3GB OC @ 902MHz Core & 4355MHz RAM 1920x1080

NVIDIA GTX 580 3GB OC @ 902MHz Core & 4355MHz RAM 2560x1600

A very impressive card indeed, with a price point in the region £350 Inc. VAT that matches GTX 580 1.5GB pricing and this card matches one for performance but has two bonuses. More memory which makes it more future proof and better for high-res gaming, but even more importantly just like the 7970 these cards are hugely overclockable.

Clocking the 7950 at NDAMHz core and NDAMHz memory which they all do with ease (with the Asus BIOS), you have a stock 7970 performing card for considerably less money. Unfortunately it does seem like its not possible to unlock the shaders and as we've seen the 7970 is a true overclocking demond.

So in essence the maximum stable overclock I achieved was NDAMHz Core and NDAMHz memory using the Asus BIOS. Using that same BIOS on a 7970 were talking around 1225-1255MHz Core and 7500-7800Mhz memory. Though remember the 7970 has the full 2048 shaders which gives a decent performance boost.

All in all the 7950 is approx 30% cheaper than the 7970 but when flashed and overclocked its only about 10-15% slower. The 7970 is faster and definetely has a better cooler without doubt, plus a more quieter cooler too, that really helps to keep the case temperatures down, wheras 7950 coolers just heat your case up. So it still stands if you want the best buy the 7970.

Overall the 7950 is great value for money, against an overclocked GTX 580 3GB the 7950 when overclocked is faster in benchmarks and its overclocked game performance should be at least on par with an overclocked GTX 580 3GB gaming performance, so as the card cost less than a 580 3GB, the 7950 is good value.

 

[trazomfr]

An online store has already pre-order an AMD 7950 here.

 

[Lollipop]

So the performance level is about the 580?

 

[trazomfr]

I do not know, but if that were the case maybe Nvidia will drop the prices of its 580GTX.