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3.4 Out of 10 | |
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)HIS tells us their card will retail at $320 – definitely a great price considering the normal HD 7950 reference design retails for around $310.
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)Under load, the card is much quieter than the AMD reference designs in its performance range.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon HD 7950 Boost among Desktop GPUs over $400
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more |
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T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor |
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Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more |
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TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more |
3.4 | Overall Score |
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Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon HD 7950 Boost
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
Crysis: Warhead (2013) 1920x1080 - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
Batman: Arkham City 1920x1200 - Extreme quality + FXAA-HIGH
Far Cry 3 1920 x 1080 - Ultra Quality + 4x MSAA + Enh. AtoC
Civilization 5 1680x1050 - Maximum quality + 4xMSAA
Battlefield 4
SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do 3D rendering
Reviews Word on the street for the Radeon HD 7950 Boost
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What People Are Saying Give it to me straight
Power
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2012)Furmark maximum power is basically unchanged, because AMD's PowerTune algorithm will take over in this scenario and limit maximum power.
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)NVIDIA's high-end GTX 680, GTX 670 and GTX 660 Ti do a bit better in power consumption, both in idle and under load.
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2012)AMD's new PowerTune Boost is following in NVIDIA's steps by evaluating a graphics card's power consumption more closely to provide an additional speed boost.
Performance
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)Pricing is quite reasonable with $320, given that it is just $10 more than a normal HD 7950 reference design card and significantly cheaper than the GTX 670, which offers a similar performance.
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)Two CrossFire connectors are available, so you may combine this card with up to three other HD 7950s for improved performance.
by techPowerUp! (Jan, 2012)Today AMD launched their new HD 7950, which aims at being a high-end graphics card due to its pricing, which is comparative to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580 with its current market pricing.
Applications
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)It offers many monitoring and software voltage-control features and is well supported through overclocking software.
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)Boost and overclock out of the box will only affect gaming power-draw.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)The game revolves around the epic battle between the Horde and Alliance factions with many other races getting involved in a long and complex story line.
Memory
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2012)Increased voltage will lead to increased stability at higher clock speeds, which is probably required to ensure that all cards can handle the increased clocks.
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2012)Now AMD has released a BIOS update that will improve the clock speeds of the card to provide a performance advantage against NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 660 Ti.
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2012)The new specifications see the GPU core-frequency increased to 850 MHz (from 800 MHz), and introduces PowerTune with Boost, which sends the GPU clock speed up to 925 MHz when applications demand it.
Consumption
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Sapphire does not use that trick, so power consumption with the boost BIOS is only slightly higher.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)On the Sapphire Vapor-X, this feature has been extended to provide a BIOS that runs clocks beyond Sapphire's default clock for the HD 7950without any voltage changes, which will help keep power consumption in check.
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2012)Power consumption during gaming has increased compared to the HD 7950 reference design, but that was to be expected.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
GPU brand | AMD |
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GPU name | Tahiti PRO |
Market | Desktop |
Clock speed | 850 MHz |
Turbo clock speed | 925 MHz |
Is dual GPU | No |
Reference card | None |
raw performance
Shading units | 1,792 |
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Texture mapping units | 112 |
Render output processors | 32 |
Compute units | 28 |
Pixel rate | 29.6 GPixel/s |
Texture rate | 103.6 GTexel/s |
Floating-point performance | 3,315 GFLOPS |
memory
Memory clock speed | 1,250 MHz |
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Effective memory clock speed | 5,000 MHz |
Memory bus | 384 bit |
Memory | 3,072 MB |
Memory type | GDDR5 |
Memory bandwidth | 240 GB/s |
noise and power
TDP | 200W |
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Idle noise level | 40.7 dB |
Load noise level | 55.6 dB |
Idle power consumption | 112W |
Load power consumption | 340W |

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