REVIEW OF THE ASUS MATRIX HD7970 PLATINUM 3GB
Good day everyone! First of all, I would like to thank ASUS and also Sanko for giving me this opportunity to make a review for such a wonderful card . Besides, this is also my first time making a review for hardware so if any mistake arised, please forgive me .

As we known, many manufacturers had release their own HD7970 cards since AMD released their HD7970 in the market. But recently, ASUS had released the most powerful HD7970 graphic card between all of the other competitors which is MATRIX HD7970 PLATINUM 3GB. The part code is MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5! This card has the AMD Radeon HD 7970 'Tahiti' GPU core clocked at 1100 MHz and the 3GB of GDDR5 RAM is clocked at 1650 MHz (6600 MHz effective)，it beats the MSI 7970 Lightning completely. By the way, ASUS had threw out the reference design of HD7970 from the window and made a really big change on this card. Moreover, this card had three slots with massive cooling capacity and keeps the temperature of this card below 70 degree celcius. How cool it is huh? Your room won't be getting hot and hotter if you own this card .

There's more though, the HD7970 Matrix Platinum comes with 2x DVI outputs as well as with 4x DisplayPort connectors. This design allows for up to six displays to be connected in Eyefinity mode. This best requires 2x8 power connector but with very low power consumption.

Let's stop the chit chat and look forward into the UNBOXING photos!

The accesories in the box
Driver CD + Documentation
CrossFire Bridge
DVI Adapter
PCIE Power Cable
LN2 MOSFET Heatsink
ROG Badge
3x VGA Hotwire Cable



The front view of the box


The rear view of the box


Look what i've found inside the box!! Top view of this beast!


THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THIS CARD!! The side panel of this card, with a word 'MATRIX' engraved. The 'MATRIX' got 5 different color of LED indicators which separate the level of this beast with each colour. Will explain about it later! Stay tuned!


Three slotted as we mentioned just now. It's really huge and occupy lot of spaces. BUT, who cares? Since it comes with 2x DVI port and 4x Display port and huge heatsink to perform better cooling capacity!


Look at this awesome features. A little red button which can boost the 2x 100mm fans on the shroud to 100% speed once you pressed it. Besides, there you can see 3 circle black button with +, - and safe mode. The + and - buttons allow you to adjust the voltage of the card manually while safe mode is to prevent you to short circuit the card. Of course it's not gonna help if you drooled on the card


This is the backplate of Matrix. Devastating huh? Fine Polished!


Even more, this card featured VGA hotwire function which allow you to suppling more vcore / memcore etc..

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Let's continue to the benchmarking section!
ASUS Matrix HD7970 Platinum 3GB is tested in rig with specifications of:
Processor: AMD X6 1090T @ 3.2ghz
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
Memory/ RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600mhz C8 2x4gb dual channel
PSU: Gigabyte Odin Pro 800W 80+
Cooling Solution: XSPC RS360 kit


Now, we're going to test the ASUS Matrix HD7970 Platinum with the 3D MARK 11 software. We will start with the factory settings first. Refer to the image below! This test will carry in an air-conditioned room.


This post has been edited by jjliew95: Jan 4 2013, 01:14 PM

There you go. Tested under performance preset. The results has came out! Refer to image below.


Let's look at the score in 3DMark11 again with Performance preset By the way, this will not carry in an air- conditioned room! This is the current settings of the beast and the score! Fan setting is auto. As you can see, pushing further 100mhz can get such an improvement, it's really powerful! What i can say is pushing this card is quite easy that even a beginner can do it well

LOOOOOOOOOK! As ASUS promised, this card will be below 70 degree celcius even during full load. Also look at the fan speed, maximum only 3.3k rpm. Seriously, i didn't heard any noise from the card while the test is under process! OMG

ALRIGHT! Will stop overclocking here since i don't have a very good psu to push it further or else i might break this beast and ASUS is gonna screw me up !
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Gaming Benchmark Section
Notes:
-Latest AMD VGA driver from Republic Of Gamers
-Latest firmware updated from Republic Of Gamers
-Air- Conditioned Room
-Every settings in default

First Game Tested by ASUS Matrix HD7970 Platinum
Dirt 3
- 1680x1050
- 8x MSAA
- Vsync ON
- HIGHEST settings



- 1920x1080
- 8x MSAA
- Vsync ON
- HIGHEST settings



BATTLEFIELD 3
-1680x1050
-4x MSAA
-16x AF
-All Highest Settings
Result:
Min FPS: 62 Avg FPS: 90 Max FPS:156

-1920x1080
-4x MSAA
-16x AF
-All Highest Settings
Result:
Min FPS: 51 Avg FPS: 76 Max FPS: 131
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'MATRIX' LED INDICATOR SAMPLES

SAFE MODE


LIGHT LOADING


MEDIUM LOADING


HEAVY LOADING


EXTREME LOADING


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FINAL THOUGHTS AND CONCLUSION
The ASUS HD7970 Matrix Platinum 3GB video card will go down in the history books as the best AMD Radeon HD7970 graphics card that ever made at least within the short time . I acknowledge that the vast majority of power users run only a single graphics card, however probably won’t miss the additional slot that must be sacrificed with the ASUS Matrix HD7970 Platinum over more common two-slot cards. With that said, there are obvious benefits to the oversized cooler. The ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 Platinum operated at lower temperatures and was quieter than a reference Radeon HD 7970 too.

That’s a fairly steep premium, but one that can be justified considering the ASUS Matrix 7970 Platinum increased performance, better overclocking headroom, quieter operation, and tons of additional features.

Last but not least, THIS is the first time for me to make review for such a powerful card. I may not be handle this card well. Example of i couldn't push it until the limit and also photography issues since i seldom use my DSLR. Please forgive me guys. Good Days ahead!

OUT OF 10, I give ASUS MATRIX HD7970 PLATINUM 3GB 8.5 points personally!

This post has been edited by jjliew95: Feb 8 2013, 01:41 PM

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love the matrix performance indicator

haha YEAH!! I guess everyone love it once they saw it x

This post has been edited by jjliew95: Jan 2 2014, 12:50 AM

off Vsync boy for more fps

+1

u lock the fps if vsync off. for benchmarking off vsync, for playing games on vsync.

*spy voice* you must be new.
Neat, could have improve on photography too(blur pix).

btw i like that led indicator loading...nice

awww okie okie will do it now

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Added on January 3, 2013, 2:56 pmhahhaa yeah bro, first time doing review, still fresh wakakkaa

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Added on January 3, 2013, 2:56 pmALRIGHTY BRO!

This post has been edited by jjliew95: Jan 3 2013, 02:56 PM

Anyone playing Crysis 3 Very High Setting 1920x1080 with this gpu?

HOMAIGOD!?

how much for this monster/ nobody asked, or didnt mention

MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5 = RM1859 lingloong

But a lot of place don't have stock anymore.

Nice review...but to crossfire two of this beast would be consuming lots of space....

OMG this GFX, if crossfire more power to beat GTX680

enough space to cross it ? will both get too closer ?

very very nice overclocking beast there!! and the price is the same as last time 680 dcu2 top!!

photography n benchmarking i have no experience but i wanna tell u that u also can improve on your english grammar =)

peace out

i dont think you need cfx this card to beat 680

mm heatsinkfan design similar to msi lightning gtx680

exactly bro !