How do i find out which Radeon HD 7900 series i have

[Solidsnake07]

I bought a new pc yesterday and im tying to make sure everything i purchased is what i orderd. I orderd a AMD radeon 7970, but im having trouble verifying it. All i see in the calalyst control centre, advanced display properties and speccy is HD 7000 series. Ill will copy and paste my speccy stats and catalyst.

(Speccy)

Monitor
Name Philips 244EL on AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Current Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Work Resolution 1920x1040 pixels
State Enabled, Primary, Output devices support
Monitor Width 1920
Monitor Height 1080
Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 60 Hz
Device \\.\DISPLAY7\Monitor0
ATI AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Manufacturer ATI
Model AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Device ID 1002-6798
Subvendor ATI AIB (1787)
Current Performance Level Level 0
Voltage 0.850 V
GPU Clock 925.0 MHz
Temperature 31 °C
Core Voltage 0.850 V
Driver version 12.104.0.0
BIOS Version 113-C3860100-100
Memory Type GDDR5
Memory 3072 MB
Bandwidth 264.0 GB/s
Count of performance levels : 2
Level 1
GPU Clock 300 MHz
Memory Clock 150 MHz
Level 2
GPU Clock 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1375 MHz



(catalyst)

Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Device ID 6798
Vendor ID 1002
Subsystem ID 2317
Subsystem Vendor ID 1787
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 3.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 3.0
BIOS Version 015.017.000.000
BIOS Part Number 113-C3860100-100
BIOS Date 2012/03/01
Memory Size 3072 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1375 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 264.0 GByte/s

Ill be grateful for any support on this and on a side note how do i overclock this card safely and when, how should it be done. For safety i have disabled the amd overdrive feature

 

[dudewitbow]

a quick google search for Device ID 6798 leads to that its a 7970

 

[cuecuemore]

You could also cross reference this:
Core Clock in MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1375 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 264.0 GByte/s

with AMD specs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Southern_Islands_.28HD_7xxx.29_Series

 

[aevm]

About "how do I overclock this card safely"... You don't. Either it's overclocked or it's safe, you can't have both. Especially the first time...

Why would you even bother? Your monitor can only refresh 60 times a second (that's what the 60 Hz means). A HD 7970 at 1920x1080 can get you close to 60 fps or better in almost every game with all the settings maxed.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/16

 

[dudewitbow]

on a side note, about overclocking safely, the only friendly way to do it is to not touch voltage at all, but that severely limits the maximum overclock you can do, as voltage tends to be the gamble number. Overclocking a gpu is extremely easy(in comparison to cpus and ram). Its hard to get it more friendly than that manual wise(which is why companies make boost cards, so that a factory does it for you and not the user, despite the user being able to do it themselves)

 

[Solidsnake07]

Thank you for the help on this to all of you, just had to be sure i got what i paid for. In reference to overclocking i will only increae the fan speed if needed, i just ran a few games and gpu was about 70 degress but as the speed of fan increased on its own it dropped really fast. I noticed when im not running games its about 32 degress is this normal?

 

[dudewitbow]

32 is a pretty low ambient temperature in my opinion

 

[smeezekitty]

OCing is pretty safe at stock voltage.

 

[Solidsnake07]

let me rephrase my question, is 70-80 degress normal while running high end games on max settings?

 

[smeezekitty]

It is ok although a bit cooler would be better.
Max reasonable temp is around 85c.
Ideal is < 75c

 

[Solidsnake07]

Thanks again hopefully this thread can help people, in future with the same concerns