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AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB CrossFire Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 7950 CrossFire
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 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 7950 does in CrossFire. A single Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 graphics card was capable of scoring P6926, which is an impressive score. With two Radeon HD 7950 cards in the system for CrossFire we were able to reach P12554. This is a solid 81% 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 7950 to have an overall score of X2294 and the dual-GPU CrossFire setup to have a score of X4484. This is a performance gain of nearly 95%.

Next Page - Power Consumption


Review Index
Page 1 - Running CrossFire on the 7900 Series
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Battlefield 3
Page 4 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 5 - DiRT 3
Page 6 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 7 - Just Cause 2
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - 3DMark 11
Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 11 - Overclocking the 7950 in CrossFire
Page 12 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions