Hi Guys,

Anyone here tend to share their experience while overclocking the new beast from AMD? We can use this thread as main platform for AMD R9-200 series and HD7xxx's owner to share and discuss anything about overclocking and benchmarking these cards to the Max.
Anyone to share? Benchmark, Overclock, Gaming experience, FPS etc...we can share everything in this thread

AMD Radeon HD7970 - the previous KING of RED


AMD Radeon R9-290x - The New KING of RED is emerged now

Image courtesy of Google Images

Overclocking Tools(Use at your own risk):
1. MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 16(Latest)
Download Link
2. Sapphire Trixx 4.6.0 (Latest)
Download Link
3. Asus GPU Tweak 2.4.7 (Latest)
Download Link


AMD Radeon HD7970 Driver:
Catalyst 13.9 WHQL & Catalyst 13.11 Beta8
AMD Radeon HD7970's Driver page

Monitoring Utilities:
GPU-Z 0.7.3 (Latest)
HWiNFO64 v4.26 (Latest)


OC stability checking utilities (Use this at your own risk):
1. OCCT 4.4.0
Download Link
2. Furmark 1.10.6
Download Link
3. MSI Kombustor 2.5.2
Download Link



HD7970 ref OC Results:

gpu-z (1300/1685):




MSI Afterburner (1300/1685MHz @ 1.3v):




Benchmark at stock clock(925/1375):
3DMark Vantage (P32383):
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3832180



VANTAGE SCORE with single HD7970
HD7970 @ 1300MHz/1750MHz - P40058 Wow!!
CPU 2600k @ 4.85GHz
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/4035482





3DMark11 stock (925/1375) - P8003
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2592460


3DMark11 - HD7970@ (1300/1685) - P10636
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3239426


This post has been edited by shepard: Oct 31 2013, 06:13 AM

wow! bro..can put up ur 7970 pics?

Are you serious?

Overclock it to play what game? If I were you I will not reduce the life of my expensive GPU for a few fps

Actually 7970 is only a tad faster than the GTX 580 If you're talking about high resolutions like 2560 x 1600 on certain games, you still need a Crossfire setup to get a good 60 fps. Overclock does reduce life span but it will be years before it does. I don't think anyone would mind if their 7970 dies 10 years later.

bro, when you play latest games with all eye candy sets to the maxed possible, you'll know that even the most powerful single GPU also struggling to maintain a playable fps especially when you play at 1080p or higher res. That's where GPU OC taking its part to produce more fps = smooth gameplay. You're right about the life span, but to me as long as we monitor the temps and control it wisely everything should be fine, believe me.. I may not an expert when it comes to overclocking CPU/GPU but from what I read and learnt from OC old timers all over the net, and with some experience in overclocking GTX8800s, HD5850s, 6970s before..i believe as long as we know what we did, the GC should be fine.

Most importantly, we didn't use highest achieved OC for 24/7 but instead just for benching purpose and try to get a highest score possible. same goes with those who OC'ed their CPU using subzero/LN2 etc...they didn't do that for 24/7 usage but just for the score and to exceed the limit+ for fun...just my 10cents though .

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Added on January 10, 2012, 7:43 pmsorry bro, i dont have a decent camera so i didn't capture any photo. maybe tonight I'll capture some and upload it. This is a MUST HAVE card for all 'extreme pc gamers' .
1. fan really silent
2. the design is superb
3. this card is really cold
4. easy to OC, can OC up to 300MHz+ on core and up to 250MHz on memory easily, just need a small bump on voltage.
5. very stable OC

This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 10 2012, 07:50 PM

thumbs up for the "very stable OC"

I see. Thanks for clarifying bro

3DMark11 score:

stock: 7885
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2518044

1125/1575: 9109
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2518097

1285/1615: 9938
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2518309

will try to up some more since I am now at 1.25v with 1285clock...maybe can get past 1300MHz with 1.3v, hopefully can get a 10k+ score . Btw, the temps never exceed 75degC with 70% fan speed.

amazing!
very nice clocks especially on air cooling.
go go 7970!

As usual the reference hsf is quite noisy. Can't wait for the blocks.

Just warranty your graphic card if anything went wrong
That's what it is for

Unigine heaven 2.5 all settings maxed out @ 1920x1080.



not quite impressive as i imagine since min fps still below 30fps.

This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 11 2012, 02:45 AM

wait for the driver and then this thing will fly

successfully get a bit more juice from this lovely beast .

HD7970 @ 1300/1650, voltage 1.275v.
3DMark11 score: 10055
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2522568

3DMark Vantage score: 37129
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3805782



This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 11 2012, 11:26 AM

wow on ref cooler 1300 mhz!!!! thats insane bench some games dude like bf3 crysis 2 arkham city lost planet 2 metro 2033 avp using all maxed out settings please

also whats your noise/temp??

after overclock you will face overheat?

really looking forward to my queries some guys here got it to 11500 with 1230 on the core that beats asus mars II dual 580s

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showth...rd-Post-It-Here!

I'll do some game benches and update here later on. at 65% fan speed, this card is quite noisy but still acceptable if compared to HD6970...temps are up to 75degC but in a/c'ed (24degC) room.

yes, definitely but as long as you manage it with fan speed etc everything should be under control .

no wonder he got 11700 only at 1230..he's using a top end cpu/mobo/ram with very high physics score and this will affect graphics score as well. Nice score & nice system over there.

just compare the graphic score and ignore the physics

few hundred more mhz in cpu only contribute single digit improvement in final score