Just like most other AMD add-in board partners, Gigabyte also announced earlier today a Radeon HD 7950 graphics card of its own, that uses the company’s proprietary WindForce 3 design in order to deliver faster than stock performance.
The most distinctive feature of the
Gigabyte video card, which carries the model number GV-R795WF3-3GD, is, of course, the in-house developed cooling system installed by Gigabyte.
The WindForce 3 cooler, as this is called, gets its name from the fact that is uses three 80mm fans in order to blow fresh air over a massive aluminum heatsink that covers most of the card’s PCB.
These are tilted in a way that Gigabyte says helps maximizing the amount of hot air that is pushed out of the rear panel, as well as through the top of the card.
This powerful cooling assembly enabled Gigabyte to increase the operating frequency of the GPU to
900MHz, 100MHz more than AMD’s recommended clock for the HD 7950, while the memory works at the same stock 1,250MHz (5GHz data rate).
The rest of the specifications are fairly standard for an AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card, Gigabyte’s creation sporting the usual dual miniDP, HDMI and DVI-D video outputs and 3GB of video buffer.
Pricing has been established at
$489.99 (about 371 EUR), the card being available from several retailers, including Newegg who offers it together with a Dirt 3 free game coupon.
AMD’s
Radeon HD 7950 is based on the same Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and Tahiti GPU like that used for the HD 7970, but this comes with one of the core’s Compute Units arrays disabled to turn it into the Tahiti Pro.
The result is a graphics card that includes a total of 1792 stream processors (vs. 2048 in the HD 7970), 112 texture units, 32 ROP units and the same 384-bit wide bus of its elder brother.
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