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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDDR5 PCIe

Based on 8 reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

3
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros

Consummate performer with three screens.
Sapphire provides Eyefinity-enabling connectors.

Cons

Expensive.

Reviews

All (22)
Excellent (5)
Good (3)

By Computeractive on February 20, 2012

The most powerful single-core graphics card available, but you'll have to be a dedicated gamer to justify the high price....

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By TweakTown on January 25, 2012

I didn't think I'd say this, but I wouldn't bother overclocking the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 when running in CrossFire mode. It's not because of the performance gains, you can see across the board that there's some nice gains, but when...

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By TweakTown on January 19, 2012

We've seen AMD continue to improve CrossFireX performance generation after generation and looking at the performance we've got here today, it's obvious that they've improved CrossFireX performance again when compared to the HD 6000...

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By TweakTown on January 18, 2012

Before we move into analyzing the CrossFire performance let's first just go over the Sapphire HD 7970 3GB itself. Being a reference card there's not a lot to be surprised about. We've of course got the reference cooler and reference clocks-...

95
By Overclockers Club on January 09, 2012

When you get down to it in the end what we all want from a new release is to see it out perform not only the prior generation parts it replaces but the competitors best part in its class. The Sapphire HD 7970 does that in spades as the saying goes....

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By LanOC Reviews on January 09, 2012

and FVNew GPU platforms are always exciting and there is nothing more exciting than a flagship card launch. With the 6800 series launching before the 6900 series it wasn’t nearly as exciting. AMD has without a doubt taken the title back from...

90
By Kitguru.net on January 09, 2012

Today we are taking a look at the latest ‘Pure Black’ X79N motherboard from Sapphire, based around Intel’s enthusiast X79 platform (LGA2011). We have reviewed many Sapphire motherboards in the past and have admired their build quality and overall...

80
By HEXUS.net on January 09, 2012

AMD threw a curve ball at us by announcing the Radeon HD 7970 GPU just a few days before Christmas. Pulling the announcement of the high-end GPU forward meant there was insufficient stock in the channel to provide what's termed a hard...

80
By HardwareHeaven on January 01, 2006

It might seem like a small thing but the packaging and bundle supplied with each of the new Radeon 7970's can make a difference in which reference card we recommend and overall Sapphire score quite well in this regard. We get all of the required...

90
By Radeon3D on May 18, 2012

Mit der Radeon HD 7970 hat AMD ein würdiges Spitzen-Modell auf dem Markt gebracht. Dabei strotzt die Karte nur so von Leistung bei sehr gutem Stromverbrauchswerten, dank des neuen 28nm Fertigungsverfahren. Dabei gelang es der Sapphire Karte stehts...

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