ASUS Matrix HD 7970 Platinum Trounces Nvidia GTX 680

We reported here that ASUS has just launched two new Matrix video cards that are now based on AMD’s Tahiti GPUs instead of Nvidia’s chips. Now we got word that the performance is something to dream at.

The new cards are not really the most affordable Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition implementations, but they are not even trying.

The starting price of the new 3D adapters is $490 (380 EUR) and this is somewhat more expensive than Gigabyte’s own Windforce 3x HD 7970 GHz Edition, but ASUS is making up for this with an impressive 6.6 GHz memory overclock that Gigabyte is lacking and many other exclusive features.

Performance wise, compared with Nvidia’s reference GTX 680 video card, ASUS Platinum Matrix Radeon HD 7970 is reportedly clearly superior.

The new card is apparently able to overtake Nvidia’s single GPU flagship in various benchmarks and, if these numbers are correct, AMD now has a new single GPU performance king for the second time using the same Tahiti GPU.

Check out all the details on ASUS’ new Matrix Radeon HD 7970 video cards here.