Nobody is going to want the HD 7970 now there's a card which is practically as good for over £100 less. The only problem we can see has no real bearing on the end user at all and is only really an issue for AMD. Nvidia then has some work to do to rival this excellent card. The Sapphire HD 7950 is cheaper and knocks the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 about like a tiger playing with a toddler. We say rivalling, but really there is no contest. Well, we're still looking, but we'll be damned if we can find one…Īt £360 it's only a tenner more expensive than AMD is recommending the reference design be sold for, and around the same amount cheaper than the rivalling Nvidia top-end card. So the performance is excellent, on par with the top-end AMD HD 7970, and the cooling array makes for near silent graphical power play.
We quickly managed to hit a 1,170MHz core clock speed with the Sapphire sample we've been playing with.Īnd that's faster than we were able to push the Radeon HD 7970. The AMD overdrive software runs out of track at 1,100MHz, while Trixx will allow us to push the card up to 1,300MHz and play around with the voltages to help us get close to the limits.
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