The HD 7970 GHz Edition wants the single GPU crown.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 01:27:58 Fri, June 22, 2012

AMD has released the details and reviews for their latest high-end video card. They're calling it the HD 7970 GHz Edition and according to the reviews I've read, it is actually faster than the GTX 680 at higher resolutions. The GHz Edition is built the same as the regular HD 7970, but it has been clocked to 1,000/6,000 instead of 925/5,500.

The manufacturers are being really slow at putting up their pages for this card as it seems like Club3D is the only one that is on the ball. I'll keep looking for the other manufacturer's pages of course. The overclocking roundup will be posted soon.

4 Comments

Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:33:23 PM

Pelter
Member

Cool,

But where the 7970 meets pretty much an absolute end in overclocking performance to the reach the level of the GTX 680, the GTX 680 is just getting started with most easily hitting 1275Mhz or more all the while taking less power, producing less heat AND being ALOT quieter (the 7970GE is almost as loud as the painfully loud 6990).

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:18:30 PM

Casecutter
Member

Considering they just used a reference board and some better binned chip from just a simple TSMC 28Nm process revision I'm not expecting much from all these reference reviews. I was hoping that TSMC and AMD got some real tweaking to the process and found some truer control of efficiency, but this wasn't that they just are getting Tahiti they had design to hit 1Ghz and TDP of 250W. The only thing is they offer a more truer Boost feature, even thouygh you might set Nvidia Turbo to OC to 1275Mhz most folk cards cut out before that. I waiting to see AIB's customs and if AMD will permit higher Boost. I think AMD was little to conservitive with a 5% boost, but this Tech will evolve.

Monday, July 02, 2012 3:01:54 PM

Changnoi
n00b

It's all a bit academic anyway - nobody is writing games that won't run on a console, and that hardware (especially Microsoft's) is OLD. Until the ports market stops choking PC gaming or we get a new gen of consoles, we're just fighting a war of inflated frame rates. (Unless you've got 6 thirty inch monitors to drive - then please send me one!)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:10:39 PM

Pelter
Member

@Changnoi

Actually it still matters in the top end users, my old GTX 480s were being choked bad by using 3D vision and max settings on just about every game I play. I picked up 2 GTX 670s and they fare much better now but there are certain games that can lag under 60fps at times (Witcher 2, Battlefield 3, Heavily Modded Skyrim, and Guild Wars 2 Beta) which means that these extreme hardware levels are still needed and not just framerate luxuries or only used to power 6 monitor setups. On top of that, game developers are showing some really amazing engines for use next year (Square-Enix's luminosity engine is absolutely stunning, and Unreal Engine 4 is very nice).

Also I am really starting to doubt a new release of consoles, people with ties to Microsoft have been saying things about how they will just release Windows 8 laptops driven with next generation integrated level graphics (even though weak by gpu standards, it completely blows away today's consoles) as a replacement for consoles due to many mainstream users wanting to be able to play games while on the go but still with the ease of use.

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