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SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7950
"The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 review also features the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 uses the Tahiti GPU at 800Mhz and has 3GB GDDR5 memory running at 5000Mhz. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 has a 384Bit Memory Interface, 1792 Shader Processors and DirectX 11. We will be testing the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 and Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 using Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, Dirt 3, Dragon Age II and Elder Scrolls V games."
"The new Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 models are only the second family of graphics cards to incorporate the latest generation of GPU's from AMD built in a new 28nm process and featuring the new GCN optimised graphics processing architecture. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 GPU has a new internal structure with 1792 Stream processors and a 384-bit high speed memory interface with over 264GB/sec memory bandwidth."
SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7950 FEATURES
AMD HD3D Technology
"Enjoy the most immersive experience possible with full support for High Definition Stereoscopic 3D, a technique that presents 2D images (movies, games, photos) in a format that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth when using compatible 3D displays / glasses / software."
PCI Express 3.0
"PCI-Express 3.0 delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU (GPU communication-up to 16GB/sec in each direction), maximizing the performance from your GPU when paired with the latest platforms."
AMD Eyefinity 2.0
"The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations. Face it: the best just got better: The enhancements for AMD Radeon HD7000 series include: Stereo 3D-multi-display stereoscopic 3D support via DisplayPort 16K X 16K maximum display group resolution-output up to 268 megapixels per GPU."
8nm GCN (Graphic Core Next) Architecture
"The new and 28nm GCN Architecture with more efficient process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling a dramatic increase in Processing Power. Crank the settings, devastate your enemies and bear witness to absurdly high frame rates with Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 graphics card-DirectX 11 has never looked this good. Maximum setting and crazy performance shouldn't be a compromise."
Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio
"The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 is the first GPU that can simultaneously output multiple and discrete audio streams via HDMI and DisplayPort Output."
Microsoft DirectX 11
"Get intense gaming performance and unrivalled image quality with stunning 3D visual effects, realistic lighting and lifelike imagery with SAPPHIRE graphics cards supporting DirectX11. New features in DirectX11 such as Hardware Tesselation, HDR Texture Compression, Multi-threading support and DirectCompute bring lifelike gaming and an experience never possible on a PC before."
Shader Model 5.0
"Supports the latest Shader Model 5.0 feature set including VTF (Vertex Texture Fetch) which is a key feature used extensively in many of the games that ship today. Without support for this feature the game will fall back to a lesser shader path resulting in the loss of cool, lifelike effects made possible by Shader Model 5.0."
OpenGL 4.2
"OpenGL 4.2 improves the GPU efficiency by improving the shader process operation and capturing GPU tessellated geometry. The process of modifying an arbitrary subset of compress texture is also simplified. The memory management in handling shaders is more efficient as well."
Best Microsoft DirectX11 Support
"The tessellation performance with the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 is up to 2X faster than the previous generation, and DirectCompute performance is also faster to accelerate advanced post-processing, filtering, and anti-aliasing techniques. Direct X11 games has never looked this good."
AMD PowerTune Technology
"AMD PowerTune is a breakthrough technology that sets an entirely new direction for maximum performance at TDP. It allows the GPU to be designed with higher engine clock speeds which can be applied on the broad set of applications that have thermal headroom."
| VIDEO CARD | GPU | CORE CLOCK |
MEMORY CLOCK |
MEMORY TYPE |
MEMORY INTERFACE |
SHADER PROCESSORS |
DIRECTX |
| SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7950 | TAHITI | 800 | 5000 | 3GB GDDR5 | 384 | 1792 | 11.1 |
| SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 6950 | CAYMAN | 800 | 5000 | 2GB GDDR5 | 256 | 1408 | 11 |
| VIDEO CARD | GPU | CORE CLOCK |
MEMORY CLOCK |
MEMORY TYPE |
MEMORY INTERFACE |
SHADER PROCESSORS |
DIRECTX |
SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7950
| PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7950 |
| PAGE 2 - BATTLEFIELD 3 AND CRYSIS 2 BENCHMARKS |
| PAGE 3 - DIRT 3 AND DRAGON AGE II BENCHMARKS |
| PAGE 4 - THE ELDER SCROLLS V BENCHMARK AND FINAL RESULT |
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