14 DAY TRIAL // With the launch of the Radeon HD 7950 drawing near, a Chinese website has posted a small review of AMD’s upcoming graphics card, which shows its performance when running Metro 2033, Battlefield 3 and the 3DMark GPU testing application.
The graphics card used by tieba baidu is actually a Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 that features a custom cooling assembly and runs its GPU at 810MHz, while the 3GB of GDDR5 memory is set to work at 1,250MHz (5GHz data rate).
Sapphire’s video card was paired together with an Intel Core i7-2600K processor (overclocked to 4.5GHz) installed on an Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard, 8GB of dual-channel DDR3-1600 memory, and a Crucial C300 128GB SSD.
With the help of this setup, Sapphire’s creation scored P27692 points in 3DMark Vantage, P6448 and X1982 in 3DMark 11, while in Metro 2033 it rarely dipped under 30fps when running at 1920x1080 resolution.
According to the latest rumors to hit the Web, AMD is expected to launch the Radeon HD 7950 in just a day from now, on January 31 to be more precise.
Like the Radeon DH 7970, the graphics card is based on the same Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and its Tahiti Pro GPU 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.
The stock operating clocks of the card are set at 800MHz for the GPU, while the GDDR5 memory is running at 1.25GHz, but AMD’s add-in board partners are allowed to overclock these if they want to increase the performance of their cards.
Other AMD Radeon HD 7950 features include support for one DVI, one HDMI and two mini-DisplayPort video outputs, as well as PCI Express 3.0 and DirectX 11.1 compatibility.
The Radeon HD 7950 is expected to get a hard launch with availability from day one.
