Here a roundup of today's AMD Radeon HD 7970 reviews from Techspot, PC Perspective, TweakTown, HotHardware, Guru3D, HardwareHeaven, Hardware Canucks, techPowerUp, Golem, Tom's Hardware, HardOCP, Anandtech, and Techradar



Techspot: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

Having successfully launched their first 28nm GPU last January, AMD went on no release an entire family of Radeon HD 7000 GPUs over the next few months. The last of the series were the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 graphics cards, which were closely followed by the launch of Nvidia’s next generation flagship part, the GeForce GTX 680.

Fast forward to the present day and it'd appear that AMD is desperate to claim the bragging rights of offering the single fastest GPU money can buy. As the name suggests the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition features a core clock speed of 1GHz, along with overclocked GDDR5 memory running at 1500MHz. AMD plans to charge a small premium for the GHz cards at $499, but is it worth it?

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PC Perspective: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review - Taking on the GTX 680

AMD enjoyed that crowned location on the GPU front all the way until the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 launched in March. In a display of technology that most reviewers never thought possible, NVIDIA had a product that was faster, more power efficient and matched or exceeded just about every feature of the AMD Radeon HD 7000 cards. Availability problems plagued NVIDIA for several months (and we just now seeing the end of the shortage) and even caused us to do nearly-weekly "stock checks" to update readers. Prices on the HD 7900 cards have slowly crept down to find a place where they are relevant in the market, but AMD appears to not really want to take a back seat to NVIDIA again.

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TweakTown: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Video Card Review

AMD try to steal the lime light back from NVIDIA with the new Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition. We see if they can do it!

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HotHardware.com: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

It was exactly 6 months ago that AMD officially took the wraps off its Tahiti GPU and the original Radeon HD 7970. The Radeon HD 7970 was the first graphics card to feature AMD's "Graphics Core Next", or GCN, architecture and when it hit the scene, the Radeon HD 7970 proved to be the fastest single-GPU based graphics card available.

Since that time though, NVIDIA went ahead and released their Kepler-based GK104 GPU and the GeForce GTX 600 series of graphics cards. Although GK104 was comprised of fewer transistors and used less power, it ended up outpacing the Radeon HD 7970 more often than not. As you can imagine, that didn't sit well with AMD. So, for Tahiti's half-birthday, they went ahead and refreshed the Radeon HD 7970, by tweaking a few key aspects of the card and adding some new features. The end result is the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition...

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Guru3D: Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition review

We review the new Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition. The product is called GHz edition though even a little more. AMD now uses a Boost feature, exactly similar to what NVIDIA is doing on the 670/680 cards. The R7970 Ghz edition can 'boost' from 1000 MHz towards 1050 MHz if it meets the right conditions. So the board power (maximum power draw) needs to allow it to do so, if not it drops to 1 GHz or whatever board power range is allowed.

Not only have there been tweaks on the GPU, no the memory clocks got overhauled as well and have been increased from 5,5 Gbps towards 6 Gbps bringing the product a good chunk of additional memory bandwidth. Overall the new values should bring the product a nice 10 to 15% performance boost opposed to the regular model.

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HardwareHeaven.com: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Graphics Card Review

With a refined manufacturing process and a tweaked firmware/bios AMD are today launching a revised 7970 known as the GHz Edition, or XT2. We will be comparing that card to an overclocked, custom design GTX 680 and will dispense with the niceties, clocking our i7-3960X CPU at 5.0GHz and firing the resolution up as high as 5760x1080.

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Hardware Canucks: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review

Hardware Canucks is pleased to present our review of the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition.

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techPowerUp: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3 GB

Today AMD launches the HD 7970 GHz Edition, in a move to take away the performance crown from NVIDIA. The new card boasts clock speeds of 1050 MHz GPU and 1500 MHz memory. Price-wise the card is on the same level as the GTX 680, but is that enough to defeat NVIDIA's single GPU flagship?

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Golem: Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Gigahertz-Grafikkarte mit Boost-Nachbrenner (German)

Nach einem halben Jahr legt AMD nach: Die Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition kommt im Test nicht nur näher an die GTX-680 heran. Das erkauft sich AMD mit höherer Leistungsaufnahme durch "Powertune with Boost", das nicht nur den Takt, sondern auch die Spannung der GPU steigern kann.

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Toms's Hardware: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Give Me Back That Crown!

After watching its Radeon HD 7970 get outperformed first by Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680, and then its 670, AMD is striking back with higher clocks and a new driver that hits the afterburners in several games. But are the gains worth paying extra for?

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HardOCP: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Video Card Review

We have been documenting AMD's struggle to compete with the NVIDIA Kepler generation since it was introduced. Today AMD attempts to strike back with the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. This video card features higher operating speeds and introduces AMD's version of GPU Boost. Will the performance justify a price of $499 or will AMD fall short again

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Anandtech: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown

The GeForce GTX 680 launch marked both the closest and the farthest AMD has ever been from outright beating NVIDIA in modern times. On the one hand NVIDIA beat them by more than usual by achieving the holy trifecta as opposed to focusing just on performance. And yet on the other hand when it comes to raw performance AMD has never been this close. Where the GTX 580 beat the 6970 by 15% the GTX 680 led by just 10%, and even then it lost to the 7970 on some games. With such a close gap an obvious question arises: maybe, just maybe AMD could meet or beat NVIDIA with a higher clocked 7970 and rival them for the performance crown?

Today AMD is putting that idea to the test with the launch of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Although AMD is not calling the 7970 GHz Edition a response to the GTX 680 – instead choosing to focus on it being Tahiti’s 6 month birthday – for all intents and purposes this is AMD’s response to the GTX 680. A higher clocked 7970 with AMD's take on GPU turbo intended to make a run at the GTX 680 and that performance crown. So how does AMD fare? As we’ll see, after today it will no longer be clear who holds the performance crown.

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Techradar: Review: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD's Radeon HD 7970 reached its six-month birthday on June 22nd 2012, and to celebrate AMD has released a card that's just, well, better: the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Since it released the original Radeon HD 7970, in December last, the top single-GPU graphics card crown has slipped from its once mighty, and once mightily expensive, head. Nvidia waited, holding its breath until March, when it released its top consumer spin of the new Kepler architecture, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680.That came in slightly undercutting the Radeon card and just about pipping it to the benchmark crown in most of our tests. Not just that but the Nvidia GTX 680 managed it with a far smaller and more efficient GPU.

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