Radeon Edition Double Dissipation R7970 XFX HD 7970 CrossFireX Performance

XFX R7970 Double Dissipation Edition and Radeon HD 7970 CrossFireX Performance Review

" XFX Company was one of the first to offer their very own XFX R7970 Double Dissipation Edition based on AMD's new Tahiti XT processor with GCN architecture. As a matter of fact, XFX already offers as many as four HD 7970 series products. We are going to check out the mentioned model in this review and will also throw in a reference AMD Radeon HD 7970 to benchmark the resulting CrossFireX configuration. "

 XFX Radeon R7770 Black Edition

XFX R7770 Black Edition 'S' Review

" Enter the XFX Black Edition. With an improved over stock clockspeed of 1120MHz on the core (120MHz faster than reference HD7770) and a huge boost on the memory clockspeed to 1300MHz (5200MHz effective), the Black Edition 'S' (Super Overclock) arrives pre-overclocked which should give the card a fair boost in performance. Couple this with XFX's fantastic Double Dissipation cooler complete with GHOST thermal technology and the XFX may just make the successor to the HD5770/6770 a worthwhile purchase. Being a custom cooled, pre-overclocked card, the XFX R7770 Black Edition does carry a premium over reference cards as you would expect but for a $20 increase in price, the R7770 just became all the more appealing. "

 XFX R7770 Black Edition Double D Radeon

XFX R7770 Black Edition Double D Review

" Not everyone can afford to go with the most expensive video cards on the market; most gamers have a more limited budget. This is mostly due to the fact that there are more gamers from the 13-30 age groups than anything else. Between being too young to work, poor college students, and then young budding family’s money is always tight. When your budget has you building a $600 dollar gaming rig there is no way you will be dedicating all or even half of that towards the video card. It’s important for gaming, but without the rest of your components you’re not going anywhere. That’s where AMD’s new HD 7770 comes in, at a price point that still leaves room in your budget. Of course we need to see how it performs, for that we are taking a look at XFX’s R7770 Black Edition Double D overclocked edition. "

 XFX Radeon R7770 Black EditionS Super Overclocked

XFX R7770 Black EditionS Super Overclocked (FX-777A-ZD)

" The Radeon HD 7900 series, codenamed Tahiti, was the first product off the Southern Island family of GPUs that AMD launched on December 22, 2011. This marks a new era of GPU architecture from AMD as it ushers in the Graphics Core Next (GCN), which brings a greater computing power to the GPU. Based on a completely new design, the Southern Island’s stream processors are organized in AMD’s SIMD-based GNC architecture, which is AMD's answer to NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture. Tahiti was the first 28nm GPU manufactured by TSMC. It is also the first card that supports PCI-E 3.0 and Direct3D 11.1. The end result was that not only is Tahiti the most powerful GPU on the market today, its computing power has been improved significantly. "

 XFX Radeon 7770 Jet Black Edition Super Overclock Graphics Card GTX 560

XFX Radeon 7770 Jet Black Edition Super Overclock Graphics Card Review vs GTX 560

" One of the aspects which really stands out about AMDs recent 7970 launch is that XFX were essentially the only manufacturer to have custom cards ready for launch. This was particularly appropriate as their cooler was far superior to the reference AMD model present on the other 7970s available at launch. When it was time for the 7950 launch XFX were back again with a day 1 custom model and this time ensured that it was overclocked to enhance performance above the reference, and competitor, designs. With today's launch of the 7770 it therefore comes as no surprise that XFX are launching their own custom models, in fact several of them. "

 XFX R7770 Black Edition Super Overclocked Radeon

XFX R7770 Black Edition Super Overclocked Review

" AMD is far from finished debuting new GPUs in its Radeon HD 7000 series lineup. We've seen the launch of the high-end Radeon HD 7970 at $549 announced in December of last year and made available in January. We've recently seen the launch and availability of the high-end Radeon HD 7950 at $449 just a few weeks ago. Today, on February 15th AMD is introducing and making available its $109-$159 products, the Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7750. What about the $200-$300 cards you ask? Those are not being discussed yet, they will happen, but not today. AMD has decided to go ahead and release its lower end, sub-$200 GPUs first. "

 XFX HD 7770 Black Edition Super Overclock

XFX HD 7770 Black Edition Super Overclock 1 GB

" Launched amongst much fanfare earlier this year, It's now time for AMD's Graphics CoreNext architecture to get down to serious business: driving a mainstream GPU that offers killer value at price-points which most people will end up buying. AMD today launched the Radeon HD 7700 series, based on its spanking new silicon codenamed "Cape Verde". What makes this launch a particularly monumental challenge for Graphics CoreNext is that it now has to deliver on its biggest design goal, that of being a more efficient number-cruncher than previous-generation VLIW architecture. This efficiency is supposed to show in relative performance per mm² (taking the new 28 nm fab process into account), performance per Watt, and in more layman terms, performance to stream processor count. "

 XFX R7950 Black Edition

XFX R7950 Black Edition Review

" It's been a while since we have reviewed a card from XFX, a company who have been producing Radeon based GPUs for many years now. They return to OC3D with a bang too, as the card we have up for review is their top line HD7950, the Black Edition, with the Double Dissipation fans. We saw in our review of the reference design card how well it overclocked, but of course we're aware than not everyone is comfortable in pushing their latest expensive purchase to the limit. If you number amongst those people then a pre-overclocked card might be just the chap for you. "

 XFX HD 7950 Black Edition

XFX HD 7950 Black Edition featuring Double Dissipation Review

" This is the latest card from AMD and it’s in their new 7000 line that features their all new 28nm manufacturing process. These cards have proven to be incredibly powerful cards and this one shouldn’t be much different. It’s not quite as powerful as their 7970 card, but it should still be able to post some great benchmark scores and frame rates. This is also XFX Black Edition version that features their Double Dissipation technology. We’ll see how well this design is able to dissipate heat and reduce noise. "

 AMD Radeon HD 7950XFX R7950 Black Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7950 & XFX R7950 Black Edition Video Card Review

" AMD sent over a reference card for us to test, but they went on to say that no one would be offering the reference design. We don't see the point of spending a ton of time talking about a card that no one will ever be able to buy, so we will focus on the first retail AMD Radeon HD 7950 card that arrived for testing. We aren't sure about how unlocking cores is going to work with no standard design, so at this point in time we are unsure if it is possible to unlock a 7950 and turn it into a 7970. XFX was the first company to send us a card, so we'll focusing on their card in this review. We'll include the AMD Radeon HD 7950 reference card numbers though as they do make for a good baseline score. "