Nvidia ’s been holding AMD slightly under the water recently , but if AMD ’s newest Radeon beast performs as well as it looks like it could , the tables are turned . Is this the well possible GPU you’re able to buy ?
The gigacycle per second Edition lives up to its name , deliver a GPU clock speed of 1,000 MHz with the ship’s company ’s latest “ Graphics Core Next ” architecture , plus 3 GB of GDDR5 storage operate at 1.5 gigacycle per second . Those are stunning routine , but the GHz Edition ’s real tricks are more clever than that . A new PowerTune Boost feature reserve the bill of fare to juice itself with extra electricity ( when there ’s spare succus in the system ) , delivering performance boosts on demand . This should translate not only into smoother framerates under pressure sensation , but take into account the card to squelch GPU - accelerate non - gaming software program .
In Tom ’s Hardware ’s A-one - thorough benchmarking , the gigacycle per second mostly dwell up to anticipation , either tie or beating Nvidia ’s comparable GTX 680 in games like Skyrim and Battlefield 3 — the only thing systematically upping the gigacycle per second is Nvidia ’s GTXX 690 , which costs a thousand dollars .
The HD 7970 GHz Edition , by comparison , will only move about $ 500 — a little more with aftermarket cool down — making it jolly fair for determined games with disposable income . Look for it on cyberspace ledge “ as early as next week ” from ship’s company like ASUS , Gigabyte , HIS , MSI , Sapphire , TUL and XFX . [ AMD ]
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