XFX R7950 Black Edition Review
Test Setup, Overclocking and Temps
Published: 31st January 2012 | Source: XFX | Price: £384.95 |
Test Setup
XFX R7950 Black Edition with Dual Dissipation Cooler
Catalyst HD7970 Drivers 11.12
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair AX1200W
Corsair GTX8
Corsair H100
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Overclocking
As you can see the XFX comes out the box a lot faster than the reference card. Although it overclocks as easily as the HIS did it tops out at 25MHz less on both the GPU and Memory. So we should see much better stock performance and perhaps a tiny drop-off in the overclocks.
Temperatures
What a difference a cooler can make. At idle the XFX is comprehensively cooler than the reference design, and even the overclock doesn't overload the Ghost coolers capabilities.
Most Recent Comments
Awesome review as usual. Going to be interesting to see what kepler offers seeing as tahiti is a more than capable overclocking architecture.
Nice review for a nice graphics card. 
I've rarely been impressed by AMD but I must admit that their graphics cards are successful. XFX is one of my favorite brand and I find them particularly beautiful.
I've rarely been impressed by AMD but I must admit that their graphics cards are successful. XFX is one of my favorite brand and I find them particularly beautiful.
it pains me to say this but i like this xfx more than the others i have seen 
nice 1 tom
nice 1 tom
Tom!!
You alright bud, you looked absolutely battered on the XFX Video.
Pleased to see an appreciable difference between stock 7970 and 7950 which won't be bridged by a bios frig.
Any suggestions on why the unigen quadfire 7950 score was so poor?
I've noticed something similar on dual 6950's where you go past a certain overclock point and it becomes shockingly bad.
You alright bud, you looked absolutely battered on the XFX Video.
Pleased to see an appreciable difference between stock 7970 and 7950 which won't be bridged by a bios frig.
Any suggestions on why the unigen quadfire 7950 score was so poor?
I've noticed something similar on dual 6950's where you go past a certain overclock point and it becomes shockingly bad.
This is probably the best looking 7950 at the moment.The initial fan step down was crazy in the video.
Think it needs a back plate
gotta admit thats the best looking graphics card I've seen in a while.
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It's been too long since we've reviewed an XFX card, and we've got their famous Black edition of the 7950 here.
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