ASUS RADEON HD 7970 REVIEW

"The Asus Radeon HD 7970 review also features the Zotac GeForce GTX 580. The Asus Radeon HD 7970 uses the Tahiti GPU at 925Mhz and has 3GB GDDR5 memory running at 5500Mhz. The Asus Radeon HD 7970 has a 364Bit Memory Interface, 2048 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. We will be testing the Asus Radeon HD 7970 and Zotac GeForce GTX 580 using Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, Dirt 3, Dragon Age II, Hard Reset, Modern Warfare 3, Elder Scrolls V and the Witcher 2 games for benchmarking."

Asus Radeon HD 7970

	SYSTEM INFORMATION
VIDEO CARD	ASUS RADEON HD 7970
	ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 580
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v11.12
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v285.62
PROCESSOR	INTEL CORE I5 2500K
MOTHERBOARD	MSI H67MA E35 B3
MEMORY	PATRIOT 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE

THE ELDER SCROLLS V

HIGH QUALITY

	76
	71

EXTREME QUALITY

	72
	69

ULTRA EXTREME QUALITY

	55
	52

ASUS RADEON HD 7970 ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 580

COMMENT - "The Asus Radeon HD 7970 beats the Zotac GeForce GTX 580 by 6% with Elder Scrolls V."

THE WITCHER 2

HIGH QUALITY

	86
	76

EXTREME QUALITY

	73
	62

ULTRA EXTREME QUALITY

	43
	41

ASUS RADEON HD 7970 ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 580

COMMENT - "The Asus Radeon HD 7970 beats the Zotac GeForce GTX 580 by 12% with Witcher 2."

FINAL RESULT

COMMENT - "The Asus Radeon HD 7970 does very well with each game we use for benchmarking beating the Zotac GeForce GTX 580 with all 8 games we use for benchmarking. The difference in performance was between 5% to 21% more performance which is a great showing by the Asus Radeon HD 7970. The Asus Radeon HD 7970 outperformed the Zotac GeForce GTX 580 by 11% over all 8 games which is a good result. Taking price into account it's not looking so good for the Asus Radeon HD 7970 which costs 23% more than the Zotac GeForce GTX 580. So for an extra 11% performance you have to pay 23% more for the Asus Radeon HD 7970. Ofcourse we didn't take into account overclocking and this is where the Asus Radeon HD 7970 could make up the difference but not everyone overclocks their video card. If you are going to be overclocking the Asus Radeon HD 7970 then it will be a good buy."

ASUS RADEON HD 7970 SCORES 8/10!

ASUS RADEON HD 7970 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - ASUS RADEON HD 7970 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - BATTLEFIELD 3 AND CRYSIS 2 BENCHMARKS

PAGE 3 - DIRT 3 AND DRAGON AGE II BENCHMARKS

PAGE 4 - HARD RESET AND MODERN WARFARE 3 BENCHMARKS

PAGE 5 - THE ELDER SCROLLS V, THE WITCHER 2 BENCHMARK AND FINAL RESULT

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