Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X OC 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 100352VXSR

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Pros:

Amazing Overclockability, Stays Cool & Quiet, Cool looks, Solid build quality, Supports large amount of displays, Available Boost BIOS, Excellent temps, Competitive price
Overclocked out of the box, Fantastic overclocking potential, Dual BIOS feature adds "Lethal Boost" for higher performance, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Good bundle, Low temperatures, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, AMD ZeroCore power...

Cons:

Memory could benefit from out of the box overclock
High nongaming power consumption, Memory not overclocked, CCC Overdrive limits too low

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Last revision on November 22, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Amazing Overclockability, Stays Cool & Quiet, Cool looks, Solid build quality, Supports large amount of displays, Available Boost BIOS, Excellent temps, Competitive price
Overclocked out of the box, Fantastic overclocking potential, Dual BIOS feature adds "Lethal Boost" for higher performance, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Good bundle, Low temperatures, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, AMD ZeroCore power

Reviewers Didn't Like

Memory could benefit from out of the box overclock
High nongaming power consumption, Memory not overclocked, CCC Overdrive limits too low

Expert reviews and ratings

Sapphire has made quite a name for itself as one of the premier and largest AMD board partners and all with some stylish and simply impressive cards in the process. Today we look at the HD 7950 Vapor-X model and see what kind of magic has been infused in...

By bjorn3d.com on October 17, 2012

Sapphire's HD 7950 Vapor-X is a well-rounded custom design HD 7950. It comes with an overclock out of the box that gives it a 4% performance lead over the reference design HD 7950. Sapphire used AMD's dual BIOS feature to put a second BIOS on the card...

By techPowerUp! on September 06, 2012

Last month we reviewed the latest flagship GPU from Sapphire, the incredible . The 7970 Toxic managed to get the enthusiast audience salivating, although most simply couldn’t afford the bank breaking asking price. In an attempt to rectify this...

By Kitguru.net on August 16, 2012

The AMD Radeon HD 7950 was a solid card when it was released, but the Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X shows the full potential of this...

By Legit Reviews on October 05, 2012

How to sum up this card? Overall it performed admirably in all tests and did so with surprisingly low noise. The Vapor-X cooling solution held true to its roots and kept the card both cooler and quieter than most other cooling solutions even when...

By Overclockers Club on September 18, 2012

With the Radeon 7950 still being the hot topic at the moment, we thought that whilst we took a look at the XFX Radeon HD 7950 Black Edition and Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC which in their own right, come with a slightly tweaked profile with a factory...

By eTeknix on February 13, 2012

As we all know last Tuesday was the official release date for AMDs 7950 graphics cards. We've already taken a look at one of the offerings from XFX, but now its Sapphires turn to take centre stage and show us what they can do to spice up the reference...

By eTeknix on February 08, 2012

Well, we're here at another conclusion. This card has been very impressive and it performed only slightly below the similar XFX card that we tested previously. It managed to stay fairly cool and quiet throughout all of our testing and installation was...

By channelpronetwork.com on January 31, 2012

Nach zahlreichen Benchmarks und sonstigen Messungen ist es nun an der Zeit, ein finales Urteil zu verkünden und eine Empfehlung auszusprechen. Doch bevor wir damit beginnen, möchten wir uns bei Sapphire für die Bereitstellung der Grafikkarte und für die...

By hardware-infos.com on August 31, 2013

Eine Grafikkarte ist nicht nur dafür da, hübsche Grafikeffekte in Spielen auf den Bildschirm zu zaubern. Ganz im Gegenteil, sie kann noch viel mehr! Sie entlastet den Hauptprozessors des Systems spürbar, indem sich der Grafikchip um die parallelen...

By PC-Welt.de on July 24, 2013

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