Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Overlock Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 11196-02-xx

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Excellent singlecard performance.
Overclocks like a dream.
Quieter than reference.

Cons:

Price.
CrossFire scaling can be hit or miss.

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Last revision on May 15, 2020

Reviewers Liked

Excellent singlecard performance
Overclocks like a dream
Quieter than reference
Cooler than reference

Reviewers Didn't Like

Price
CrossFire scaling can be hit or miss

Expert reviews and ratings

AMD launch their latest graphics card today … the high end HD7950. We have analysed several partner products already this morning and in this particular review we will focus on the custom Sapphire card, which is supplied in an overclocked state...

By Kitguru.net on January 31, 2012

Conclusion Price: US$479 / SGD$719 (The regular 800MHz reference design will cost US$449 / SGD$689) ProsConsDespite costing less, offers HD 7970 levels of performance in comtemporary titles12-inch length might be a problem in some...

By VR-Zone on January 31, 2012

It would be easy to come away from the review of the Sapphire HD7950 Overclock Edition with the feeling that the card isn't quite living up to potential.Of course this is far from the case as out of the box it's inseparable from the XFX, both...

By Overclock3D on January 31, 2012

100

Sapphire has waded in first with its take on AMD's latest HD 7000 series card, the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OverClock edition. Unlike the AMD Radeon HD 7970 there are unlikely to be very many strictly reference models of the Radeon HD 7950. Instead...

By TechRadar on January 31, 2012

AMD's Radeon HD 7950 is here, folks. You've seen the reviews, you've tasted the performance and you've already planned your upgrades. But some of you will have bigger plans and greater ambition; for why have one ultra-fast GPU when you...

By HEXUS.net on January 31, 2012

The AMD Radeon HD 7000 adventure started last year with the Tahiti chip. With 4.3 billion transistors it is the largest, most complex and fastest out of the three Southern Islands GPUs that AMD has released the last few months. Tahiti contains 32...

By uk.hardware.info on July 01, 2012

Although it’s been more than a month since we presented the first Radeon HD 7950, everything about it was pretty rushed due to a very tight deadline; this time around, though, we’ve had the chance to hang out with several different models, making for...

By InsideHW on March 13, 2012

The SAPPHIRE HD 7950 OC Edition is the real McCoy and is the card that other companies need to copy....

By Legit Reviews on February 29, 2012

The Radeon HD 7950 3GB seems to be an even more attractive product than the recently released Radeon HD 7970 3GB. Being more affordable, it can be overclocked to deliver higher performance while the $100 difference in price can be spent for a better...

By X-bit Labs on February 16, 2012

There are some interesting things happening here with the launch of the Radeon 7950. First, while this card shares the nomenclature of the previous generation and can be seen as the successor to the 6950, the reality is right now it's such a vast...

By Pureoverclock on January 31, 2012

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