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ASUS Radeon HD 7970 3GB CrossFire Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ASUS HD7970-3GD5-3DI2S
Date: Fri, Jan 20, 2012 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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3DMark 11

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Settings

Since Futuremark has recently released 3DMark11 we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

Nearly all gamers use some version of 3DMark for testing, so we ran Futuremark 3DMark11 with the performance preset enabled to see how the AMD Radeon HD 7970 does in CrossFire. A single Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 graphics card was capable of scoring P9750, which is an impressive score. With two Radeon HD 7970 cards in the system for CrossFire we were able to reach P14284. This is a solid 47% performance gain.

3DMark11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

We also ran Futuremark 3DMark11 with the extreme present and found the single AMD Radeon HD 7970 to have an overall score of X2752 and the dual-GPU CrossFire setup to have a score of X5337. This is a performance gain of nearly 94% - the highest percentage gain in any benchmark that we ran.

Next Page - Power Consumption & Temps


Review Index
Page 1 - Our First Retail Radeon HD 7970 GPU!
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 5 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 6 - DiRT 3
Page 7 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 8 - Just Cause 2
Page 9 - Metro 2033
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption & Temps
Page 12 - Overclocking the 7970 in CrossFire
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions