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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review [Part 3/3]: Overclocking, Benchmarks and Conclusion
In the final part of our review, we look into the overclocking abilities of the 28nm 'Tahiti XT' GPU, run extensive but relevant performance tests, and give an objective conclusion of the AMD Radeon HD 7970.
Conclusion
![AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review [Part 3/3]: Overclocking, Benchmarks and Conclusion](http://assets.vr-zone.net/14286/P1020791.jpg)
Priced at an elitist US$549, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is positioned to compete against Nvidia's 1 year old GTX580 3GB, which it bests considerably in most tests. We also saw the remarkable overclock frequency headroom and compute power that the 28nm 'Graphics Core Next' architecture delivered in our review, which is a promising baseline for AMD to build on for the next few product refreshes. Monthly driver updates over the next few months should also help increase the performance delta, especially in newly released titles like Batman: Arkham City/Skyrim and Crossfire scenarios.
What we really need now is some healthy competition from NVIDIA to bring prices down - their mysterious high end GK104/GK100 Kepler part isn't scheduled to come out anytime soon...
| Pros | Cons |
| Fastest Single GPU on the planet now | Expensive |
| Excellent Overclocking Headroom | Questionable availability |
| Acoustically tuned vapor chamber heatsink design | |
| CHiL CHL8228G PWM / Great power consumption | |
| Fantastic GPU Compute performance |
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Editor's note: We didn't think it was important, but Crossfire, Eyefinity 2.0 and SteadyVideo 2.0 testing will follow soon...
Check also
Part 1: A Look at Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
Part 2: The Card Design (Hardware Components and Cooling)
