Hardware Canucks posted a review of the new ASUS HD 7970 3GB Matrix Platinum Edition graphics card

After months of waiting, ASUS has finally graced the market with the latest version of their Matrix series. Using the HD 7970 GHz Edition as a starting point, they have thoroughly upgraded everything from components to cooling in order to create the HD 7970 Matrix.

With NVIDIA’s launch of their Kepler architecture, many were convinced the focus would be taken off of AMD’s HD 7000-series graphics cards and for the most part, that’s exactly what happened….until late last month. Instead of sitting on their laurels while GeForce-branded products gobbled up the lion’s share of sales during this holiday season, AMD began a two-pronged attack. New drivers were introduced which significantly increased the performance of nearly all Radeon cards while a far-reaching game promotion also came to fruition. Not only did the 12.11 drivers allow the HD 7970 GHz to retake the “fastest graphics architecture in the world” title but the game promo ensured that buyers of high end Radeons would get access to the latest triple-A titles. Naturally, this situation has played into ASUS’ favor as they go about launching the new HD 7970 Matrix series.

  ASUS HD 7970 3GB Matrix Platinum Edition Review