XFX R7950 Black Edition Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 31st January 2012 | Source: XFX | Price: £384.95 |
Introduction
It's been a while since we have reviewed a card from XFX, a company who have been producing Radeon based GPUs for many years now. They return to OC3D with a bang too, as the card we have up for review is their top line HD7950, the Black Edition, with the Double Dissipation fans.
We saw in our review of the reference design card how well it overclocked, but of course we're aware than not everyone is comfortable in pushing their latest expensive purchase to the limit.
If you number amongst those people then a pre-overclocked card might be just the chap for you.
Technical Specifications
The Black Edition comes out the box with 900MHz on the core, so we should see a good increase in the stock speeds compared to it's reference rival. We also have XFXs Double Dissipation cooling utilising their Ghost technology. This allows the airflow to reach the PCB, and vent from any available space, which should keep temperatures of all the components down without excessively spinning the fans up.
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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.
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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.Quote
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