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
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Overlock Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 11196-02-xx
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By Kitguru.net
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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 VR-Zone
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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 Overclock3D
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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 TechRadar
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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 HEXUS.net
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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 uk.hardware.info
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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 InsideHW
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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 Legit Reviews
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The SAPPHIRE HD 7950 OC Edition is the real McCoy and is the card that other companies need to copy....
By X-bit Labs
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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 Pureoverclock
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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 TechwareLabs
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The New Graphics King? With the release of the New Radeon 79xx cards we have witnessed the new graphics performance king enter the market. With the world’s first 28nm GPU architecture the 7970 is a monster, however it also comes with a monster...
By Hardware Canucks
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With a market that will surely be cluttered with custom versions of the HD 7950, only the best cards with forward looking designs will stand out from competitors. We’ve already seen two such products from XFX and HIS, each with its own set of...
By Modders-Inc
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With the HD 7970 already claiming the King of the Hill title, you know that the title comes a tall price tag. So if you are like me and know you can get some of that awesome speed and features for less money then you need to look at the SAPPHIRE HD 7950...
By Nexthardware
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Nel complesso non possiamo che confermare le nostre precedenti considerazioni sulle Radeon HD 7950 che si dimostrano schede dalle ottime prestazioni in tutti gli scenari di utilizzo.La proposta di Sapphire si distingue per l’efficiente sistema di...
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