forgive me but that's not quite true if base on my OC'ed results. Even if I upped my cpu clock to 100MHz, the final result in 3dmark11 increased for about 120points. So to me, cpu play its own important part in contributing a best final score for 3dmark11 and vantage. But really its just a number..if let say we run it 5x at 4.0GHz and 5x at 4.3GHz then we may have different POV on the final score .

GPU - 1300/1650, CPU 4.4GHz - 3dmark11 score 9938 , Graphics score 10106
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2518309

GPU - 1300/1650, CPU 4.5GHz - 3dmark11 score 10055, Graphics score 10216
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2522568

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Added on January 11, 2012, 10:38 pmAlien Vs Predator HD7970@1225/1600:

AvP D3D11 Benchmark Report
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* Report Created: 2012-01-11 @ 22:35:22
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* Executable Build: V1.03, Apr 19 2010
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*DX11 Hardware Detected*

Using Default Video Settings:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Texture Quality: 2
Shadow Quality: 3
Anisotropic Filtering: 16
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: 1

Benchmark Summary:

Number of frames: 11869
Average Frame Time: 8.8ms
Average FPS: 113.1

This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 11 2012, 10:38 PM

interesting

would really like to compare the gaming physics performance with nvidia physx...

Not even close. AMD card's physics definitely cannot compared to NVIDIA physX no matter how powerful its raw power performance. I hope this is what you mean..

i would really hard to imaging playing batman arkham city using AMD Radeon without physx...eventhough the FPS rock steady...

What to do.. physx-like Havok feature is not implemented on AMD card yet
but i don't know whether u could use a hacked driver to enable physx on this 7000 series with the latest driver + games.

already buy hd 7970 ????......................nice.......

This post has been edited by primaroti: Jan 13 2012, 10:23 AM

imagine what this beast can do when the driver is mature!!

Yes master Kevin, i need to do some googling to find out whether this card already supported with physX card to play latest games like batman arkham city etc..but i guess it'll take some time for the work around .

haha ya lorr, cannot resist anymore as I found those reviews on this card was sooooo charming hahaha ..if got more money sure will grab another one, then I'll sit tight for maybe 1-2years enjoying new games

hopefully by time, AMD driver support team are working hard to satisfy their 7970's customer after what they've paid. I believe there's much more potential in this card, only time will tell . thanks for drop by..


This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 13 2012, 01:01 PM

Our brother Kevin already got 2 cards on the way to him

That's good to hear, I will no longer doing OC'ing and Benching alone here then .

I take leave today just to play around with this card haha , got some scores to be shared and to compare 3xhd5850s performance with single hd7970 in some games/benchmarks.
Now for a start Unigine Heaven 2.5 with everything maxed out...hd7970@ 1225/1625 stable for 24/7 usage on air




ok now i7 920@4.3GHz with 3xhd5850s @ 950/1200 scores with unigine heaven 2.0 all settings maxed out:


i7 2600k@4.5GHz with HD7970 @ 1225/1625 - scored even higher than 3x5850s OC'ed above..great tessellation power INDEED!!


Since I've kept some benchmark scores of my old 3x5850s system, I can at least compare those results with 7970 scores in a chart later and share with you guys here... hope to see a good score.

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3DMark Vantage comparison ( 3x5850s vs 7970)
3x5850s OC'ed @ 1025/1200 + i7 920@4.4GHz




hd7970 OC'ed @ 1300/1650 + i7 2600k@4.5GHz



HD7970 is a true winner against mighty 3x5850s


This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 13 2012, 02:18 PM

wanna see u 3x7970s so badly!! haha

monster gc........................hhahahahhahaha

To be honest, there's a limit what the drivers can do. What's important here is the support of drivers for that particular game. It doesn't mean that 6 months down the road with Catalyst version 25 coming out, we will get extra 10-20 FPS with it

haha..true bro alvin, what i mean is their support, and also possible if the new driver will make this card even more stable in OC that'll be great as well. Actually the improve in FPS is subjective and only applied to some games/ apps upon new driver release..we dont get an overall 10fps for all games..new driver means better games optimization but not for all games. Right now I'm playing Skyrim with hd7970 and microstutter is there all the times, this won't happen with nvidia cards though..this is where we need AMD support to improve on their driver in games etc, in terms of FPS...this card serve me more than I need already..no complaints at all .

Update: After ran through a couple of benchmarks and games tests...I dare to declare that HD7970 is even more powerful than 3x5850s in terms of overall raw power(fps) and of course tessellation power. However, I just compared my HD7970 with my old Trifire setup that use an old driver. But as bro Alvin mentioned, new driver wont produce an extra 10-20fps so there's no doubt already. I believe this card also able to beat 2xHD5870 when it comes to OC'ed vs OC'ed. IF at stock, maybe those Trifire and CFx is better. Thanks to HD7970's huge OC headrooms .

This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 14 2012, 03:43 AM

This is how Hd5850s scales, just for sharing .




This post has been edited by shepard: Jan 14 2012, 07:15 PM

That's a good one boss You should start writing reviews.

Bought 2pcs of this beasty card from CyntrixTech recently.




will grab another one for tri-fire + wb

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Added on January 17, 2012, 9:00 amKoolance 7970 block is now in stock: Link



This post has been edited by owikh84: Jan 17 2012, 09:01 AM

Wahhh...got new toys lagi ahh...

I wanted to get this but after seeing this chart its like a step backwards in terms of relative performance...haihh...1 year more to live with it...



I have 5970 yeah...so not worth the hassle of upgrade...for now

This post has been edited by antonio: Jan 17 2012, 10:45 AM

It's not a step backwards. The 7970 is literally the best GPU AMD every created. There's only "one" gpu in the 7970 as opposed to the 6990 which is 2 x 6970 (crippled), and the 590 (2 x 580). An OCed 7970 is very close to a 6990. The benefit of 7970 is that you can run 4 pieces of them which is equivalent to almost 8 pieces of 6970's performance. On the 6 series card, the best you can to is 2 pieces of 6990 and that is only equivalent to 4 pieces of 6970.