Which 7950 to get

Our hands are a little tied as far as making a firm conclusion goes, as we're minus a definite price for UK and US shores. In many respects the two cards are identical. AMD is marketing a decent graphics card here, a product that is both rapid and with low energy consumption. Nevertheless, you're paying a high price for innovation here and it would no doubt be wise to wait for the competition to catch up and bring Superb speed at a slightly more palatable price than the HD , but it's still on the expensive side for most Nvidia is still sitting back waiting for the right moment to strike back, but can it recover from these two Now that the cheaper and even more efficient GeForce GTX is readily available at major retailers, the Radeon HD is starting to come down in price, mostly in the form of rebates.

As vendors get realistic about the Tahiti-based board's competitive position, it should become more affordable for a greater number of gamers, effectively taking over the higher middle-class role in AMD's line-up from the Radeon HD Today, we're taking a look at the Radeon HD in its new role. By now, the card is available in a variety of versions, and we have six boards engineered for different strengths. Some overclock well, while others are designed to operate as quietly as possible.

We're also including video to demonstrate the acoustic characteristics of each card, believing that graphs sometimes fall short when it comes to conveying this very important aspect of a card's performance. If you are in the market for a graphics card in this segment, you'll know what to buy once AMD's boards reach a price with which you're comfortable. Naturally, you pay the least for the reference version, making it an ideal choice for fans of water cooling, who'll rip off that heat sink anyway.

Here are the specs for the six graphics cards. The prices don't include rebates, though many of these vendors are pulling prices down substantially by offering money back. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes. Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in range. This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using x resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware. This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite.

It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 the last being done in 4K resolution if possible , and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD Just got one and loving it so far. I thought this was a good enough price to justify the purchase. SonDa5 said:. I think you get more for your money from a well made HD but that is a very nice card. Keep us posted on how it performs. QDemon19 Gawd. Joined Jan 8, Messages Just finished installing it a few hours ago and put in some time on BF3 and Far Cry 3.

I have not tried to overclock it yet. Its hard to tell how much of a bottleneck my CPU is giving me without testing it some more.

I'm guessing min FPS might be taking a hit but this is a huge upgrade over my old reference The card is pretty tight in my case which is in my sig. Guess I'll have to upgrade when Haswell comes around. Last edited: Jan 24, So, you're just going to ignore the measured noise chart I posted? Although it was a worthwile upgrade, my OC'ed is bottlenecking my in some games.

I'm going to upgrade to either a FX with my current mobo in my sig or a k before I start overclocking my Joined Aug 17, Messages Yeh, I would go the route as well, at least this plus another upgrade range vs who knows with Intel at this point, they do change thier minds at the last minute it seems.

That is a C2 or C3 rev? Just figure I would throw that out there. Fact of the matter, Phenom II are more "efficent" in regard to how they handle memory, as well as thier cache latency and the like. They are also a true quad core, not a quad with extra portions slapped on for good measure.

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