AMD Radeon HD 7970: Promising Performance, Paper-Launched
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Page 1:Radeon HD 7970: A Holiday Surprise That You Can't Buy
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Page 2:Graphics Core Next: The Southern Islands Architecture
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Page 3:Bringing It All Together: The Tahiti GPU And Radeon HD 7970
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Page 4:PRTs, DirectX 11.1, Eyefinity, Stereoscopic 3D, And More
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Page 5:Test System And Benchmarks
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Page 6:Synthetic And Tessellation Benchmarks
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Page 7:Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3
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Page 8:Benchmark Results: Crysis 2
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Page 9:Benchmark Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Page 10:Benchmark Results: DiRT 3
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Page 11:Benchmark Results: World Of Warcraft
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Page 12:Benchmark Results: Batman: Arkham City
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Page 13:Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
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Page 14:GPGPU Benchmarks: This Time, With A Preface
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Page 15:2D Performance Benchmarks
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Page 16:Benchmark Results: Overclocking
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Page 17:Power, Temperature, And Noise Benchmarks
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Page 18:Radeon HD 7970: Fast, Forward-Looking, But Not Fully Baked
Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
Metro 2033 might not be the newest title available—in fact it’s downright old by most gaming standards—but it’s one of the most brutal on graphics hardware, with a DirectCompute-based depth of field filter selectable in DirectX 11 mode. Let’s try High details using DirectX 9 first:
AMD’s new übercard leads the pack at 1080p, and it sits just behind the dual-GPU cards at 5760x1080. Now we’ll pour on the DirectX 11, DoF, and anti-aliasing syrup:
Well that’s disappointing, isn’t it? Minimum and average frame rates drop to the floor at 1080p. While the Radeon HD 7970 holds up well compared to the competition, 5760x1080 can only provide a pyrrhic win for the new Radeon.
Summary
- Radeon HD 7970: A Holiday Surprise That You Can't Buy
- Graphics Core Next: The Southern Islands Architecture
- Bringing It All Together: The Tahiti GPU And Radeon HD 7970
- PRTs, DirectX 11.1, Eyefinity, Stereoscopic 3D, And More
- Test System And Benchmarks
- Synthetic And Tessellation Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3
- Benchmark Results: Crysis 2
- Benchmark Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 3
- Benchmark Results: World Of Warcraft
- Benchmark Results: Batman: Arkham City
- Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
- GPGPU Benchmarks: This Time, With A Preface
- 2D Performance Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Overclocking
- Power, Temperature, And Noise Benchmarks
- Radeon HD 7970: Fast, Forward-Looking, But Not Fully Baked
