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Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition Review

Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition is a special Edition of the Radeon HD 7970. See the page of the standard edition for more information.
The new features include increases in the core and memory clocks that went from 925MHz to 950MHz and from 1375MHz to 1425MHz, respectively. However, Sapphire claims that the user can OC it even more at home to a core-clock of 1000MHz and a memory-clock of 1450MHz.
Benchmarks indicate a 3% performance boost when compared to the standard Radeon HD 7970.
Therefore, all games, including very demanding ones, should be fully playable at max settings and with very attractive resolutions.
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Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition Performance Specification

Core Speed

Architecture

Memory

Memory Speed

Memory Bus

Memory Type

Memory Bandwidth

Technology

TMUs

Texture Rate

ROPs

Pixel Rate

Shader
Processing Units

Direct X

Shader

Open GL

Resolution (WxH)

Max Power

PSU

GPU Details

950 MHz

Tahiti XT

3072 MB

1425 MHz

384 Bit

GDDR5

273.6GB/sec

28nm

128

121.6 GTexel/s

30.4 GPixel/s

2048

DX 11.1

5.0

4.2

2560x1600

230 Watts

500 Watt & 33 Amps

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

Best CPU Match

Best RAM Match

Best Screen Size

GPU Upgrade

Approved

GD Value

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GPU Features

No the Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition graphics card is NOT a laptop and notebook GPU

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition graphics card is a dedicated GPU

No the Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition graphics card is NOT an integrated GPU

Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz

8 GB

1920 x 1080

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 OC Sapphire Edition graphics card has been approved by GD Admin. Always use GD data as a guideline.

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10.0

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mydreamrigmaza90210

18:29 May-09-2013

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erm, it says recommended psu is 230w, that kinda needs to be fixed

mydreamrigmaza90210

18:30 May-09-2013

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I think it's the wrong way, 500w and 40a for psu and it consumes 230w

Raystlyn

18:53 May-09-2013

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It's now corrected, thanks for spotting it!

mydreamrigmaza90210

16:22 May-10-2013

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s'okay

acplayer

20:57 Feb-02-2013

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which power supply should i buy for this graphics card

Mazasrb

21:25 Feb-02-2013

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Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66GHz oc: 5%

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With your CPU, something like 650W good brand PSU ;)

acplayer

15:15 Feb-03-2013

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thanks for answering me :)

JoshBartolomeu

16:58 Sep-11-2012

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This is already on my shopping list, great matchup with my main RIG :)

Hanno30

18:23 Sep-11-2012

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I have better :=) Buy this one what i have and price and performance are better:=)

streetvb

19:11 Sep-11-2012

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nooooooooooooooo way. this radeon is a tinie better than your, in overall gaming performance :)

JoshBartolomeu

23:00 Sep-15-2012

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LOL, I'm sorry Hanno, but look at my current GFX, It's another one, far better than yours ;)

Hanno30

03:53 Sep-16-2012

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How i know you have realy this card?:D Like how you know i have this card what i have now:=))))

JoshBartolomeu

04:09 Sep-16-2012

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You can ask Mazasrb, or amekdala, I thought I was gonna buy that, but instead I bought this.

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