VisionTek Radeon 7970 3 GB DDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards (900491) Reviews

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Product Features

AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology. Support up to 4 Displays
Get amazing EyeDefinition graphics with DirectX 11 technology
Shader Model 5.0 and AMD App Acceleration2
AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology5 - Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling
DisplayPort 1.2 Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display Multi-Stream Transport
3GHz HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
Limited Lifetime Warranty
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required

Product Description

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Product Description

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The VisionTek Radeon™ HD 7970 graphics processor harnesses the visionary GCN Architecture. As the world's first 28nm GPU, this chip is primed to enable astonishing performance and breathtaking image quality, making it the only solution for gamers who expect the best. Performance rules for the NO-COMPROMISE GAMER, who desires technology that enables an incredible gaming experience on the latest and most demanding titles. The NO-COMPROMISE GAMER has a specific purpose in mind for his PC use: advanced 3D gaming, which requires high-end discrete (premium) graphics for the fastest performance and highest visual quality in the latest and most demanding games. NO-COMPROMISE GAMERS have an exceptional understanding of technology and will also use their PCs for other activities, primarily encode/decode/transcode of HD video content.

VisionTek Radeon HD 7870 GPU Feature Summary

Use your iPod touch as a portable games console

VisionTek 7970 3GB Display Connectors

PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11-capable graphics
9th generation programmable hardware tessellation units
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
OpenGL 4.2 support
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
DirectX® 10/11 Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
AMD App Acceleration
OpenCL 1.2 Support
Microsoft C++ AMP
DirectCompute 11
Double Precision Floating Point
AMD HD Media Accelerator
AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology
Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling
DisplayPort 1.2 Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display Multi-Stream Transport
3GHz HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

Package Dimensions

13.6" x 2.7" x 5.2"

Product Warranty

Limited Lifetime Warranty (Registration Required)

System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
500W power supply with one 150W 8-pin PCI Express connector and one 75W 6-pin PCI Express connector
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive

Supported Configurations

Dual link DVI-I
HDMI video and audio connector
Single VGA (adapter required – included)
Two mini Display Port

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat card in a complete package.January 31, 2012

By Albert Chen

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First, the items included in the box:Two MOLEX 4 pin to PCI-E connector converters. One for 6-pin and one for 8-pin.One HDMI to DVI converter.One miniDP to DVI converter.One DVI to VGA converter.One CrossFire cable.Also included is a driver CD and an essentially useless Quick Installation guide. Basically everything you need is in the box.When I first installed the card, I attempted to just use the latest version of Catalyst from AMD's "Desktop Video Card Drivers" section on their website. Oddly enough it didn't work, as the 7970 was not detected. I ended up using their auto detect and install program and that installed the drivers correctly.This card from VisionTek is entirely reference design with stock 7970 clock frequencies. It replaced my previous pair of Geforce 280 GTX, and so far it definitely runs cooler than those cards (about 75 degrees C underload while my 280s were much higher). The 7970 correctly lowers its clock frequency from 925 mhz to 350 mhz when it is idling, which is something that the nvidia cards refused to do when they are connected to multiple monitors (this is a known nvidia driver issue). In addition, for people who may be interested in using this card for HTPC purposes, you'll be glad to know that this card correctly sends out a 0-255 signal when connected to a HDTV. In comparison, nvidia cards will automatically default to 16-235 level when they are connected to HDTVs despite many complaints on this matter.As far as performance goes, if you are reading this review, you probably have an idea of it already. It's much faster than my previous 280 SLI setup and performs as expected. I've yet to run into any problems and I don't expect to.Be sure to also register your card to VisionTek within 30 days for lifetime warranty.Edit:I've now had about a week with this card; a couple more observations:-Unfortunately if the card is connected to multiple monitors when idling, while the core frequency downclocks, the memory frequency does not. This does mean that the idle temperature will be higher if connected to multiple monitors compared to just one (the same as nvidia cards). The difference is around 20 degrees C. Currently my card idles at ~66 degrees C with a mild overclock with no changes to fan control (according to my research, ~60 degrees C idle temp is normal for this card when connected to multiple monitors, of course depending on where you live). If you only have it connected to one monitor, you should get closer to 40 degrees.-This card overclocks exceptionally well. I haven't really pushed the limits of OC yet (only a ~15% increase in both core and memory frequency), and the card is rock solid with the temperature around 80 degrees under load. All this just using AMD driver settings with default auto fan controls. The increase in performance is near 1:1 ratio (15% OC is almost ~15% performance increase). I'm sure I can push for more, but I'm concerned with the increase in idle temperature, which does occur with OC.-Finally, currently there's a problem where if your computer enters sleep, the card might not "wake up". You'll get a black screen and there's no way to get out of it without resetting the computer. To circumvent this you need to turn off sleep/hibernate or powerplay. Apparently not everyone gets this issue, but I did have it happen to me.

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