- 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5
- Core Clock 900 MHz
- 1 x DVI 1 x HDMI 2 x Mini DisplayPort
- 1792 Stream Processors
- PCI Express 3.0 x16
Very satisfied.
01/03/2013
This review is from: XFX Double D Black Edition Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card FX-795A-TDBC
Pros:
This edition of the 7950 seems to cater to the ever increasing numbers of people in the enthusiast pc builder market heavily invested in aesthetics. Everything from the minimalist yet solid packaging the documentation seems to live up to what one can expect from such an old brand as XFX.
On to the goodies..
Extremely high quality. You can see how precisely crafted this card is, from the high quality flux which leaves no nasty residue around the contact points, to the expertly machined aluminium heatsink casing, it is almost a pity it is going inside my machine as opposed to being openly on display somewhere in a glass case.
Performance wise, it leaves nothing to be desired. Able to handle battlefield 3 which is one of the more visually intense games of today at a stable 60 fps maxed out at 1920x1080, it stuns me with its performance. Temperature wise, it tends to hit a maximum of about 70 C, which seems to be very tolerable. And under load, the fans are quieter than the stand-by hum of my samsung spinpoint F3's, which is pretty ridiculous. In my long and arduous trek through chipset manufacturer brands, i started with an old 7900gs by xfx and tried everything from asus to evga to gigabyte, I've found myself falling back to my roots in this iteration of the annual upgrade.
In short, Knockout card by ATI/AMD providing more than ample single core power for the enthusiast, perfected by the XFX brandname and premium.
Cons:
None that i can think of at this time, except for driver stability. Upon opening this card, excitedly slotting it into my computer, and installing drivers; i found that i could not actually play the game i had anticipated playing that evening (WoW) due to a driver instability issue which caused the computer to cause extreme aritfacting/grayscreening which rendered certain games pre-DX11 standard unplayable. Going from a HD6950, i automatically assumed so, and restored to an earlier driver (212.03) which instantly fixed the problem. However, this was at the cost of a theoretical 10% performance, which is negligible unless taking into consideration the fact that i was going from a 6950... so it would have been rendered a pointless upgrade had i needed that extra power. It is not, however, an issue with modern games. Since then though, i assume there has been multiple revisions to address the instabilities. Not taking an egg off simply because its more a fault of an oudated graphics engine/api than the hardware/CCC.
Overall Review:
Hopefully this has been helpful in selecting your new card, and hopefully its been enough to convince you to get one.
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- Dariusz W.
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