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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB
Date: Thu, Jun 28, 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

We ran 3DMark11 with both the performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

Futuremark 3DMark11 with the performance preset showed that the SAPPHIRE HD 7970 scores P8560 with the 950MHz BIOS setting and P8913 with the 1000MHz BIOS setting.

3DMark11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

The extreme setting had similar performance results with card scoring X2887 on low and X3010 on high clock speeds.

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Review Index
Page 1 - SAPPHIRE HD 7970 OC 3GB
Page 2 - Retail Box & Bundle
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 5 - Battlefield 3
Page 6 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 7 - DiRT 3
Page 8 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 9 - Just Cause 2
Page 10 - Metro 2033
Page 11 - 3DMark 11
Page 12 - Unigine Heaven 3.0
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 15 - Overclocking The 7970 OC - How Far Will It Go?
Page 16 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions