Asus Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU 2 Top 3GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

2
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Built to Overclock.
Rock solid build quality.
12 Phase DIGIVRM.

Cons:

Availability.
Standard clock similar models can be found easily.

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Last revision on April 10, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Built to Overclock
Rock solid build quality
12 Phase DIGIVRM
Centrally located mod points
Very strong DirectCU II cooler
Matrix LED Load lighting system is cool
GPU Tweak software has many tuning options
Solid and stylish backplate

Reviewers Didn't Like

Availability
Standard clock similar models can be found easily

Expert reviews and ratings

Over the past year, the GeForce GTX 680 and the Radeon HD 7970 have served as the respective flagship GPUs for each of their camps, and even though both cards seem a bit like well-aged cheese by now, they are still fast. There have also been quite a...

By Maximum PC on June 18, 2013

ASUS has a wide range of products, from hardware to routers and audio solutions. Today though, we're taking a look at one of ASUS' premier products: the ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP edition card. Keep reading what this beast of a card has to offer!The...

By bjorn3d.com on November 02, 2012

The DirectCU II TOP range of graphics cards from ASUS is undoubtedly in the upper echelon of elite cards on the market. While MSI's Lightning series is often thought of as higher end, the DirectCU II delivers similar features for a more affordable...

By APC Magazine on August 29, 2012

100

Usually ASUS releases its GPUs in three steps. First of all there are the "boring" reference cards with an ASUS badge. Secondly there are the "funnier" DirectCUII cards whereas one of which is sitting in our test system today. Last but not least there...

By Ocaholic on March 28, 2012

Last month, we had a go at Asus’s flagship HD 7950, the Direct CU II TOP edition and while we loved its performance, the thing was a monstrosity and required three slots in your chassis. Well, today we have another gigantic card from them, the top...

By FirstPost on March 17, 2012

The battle between AMD and NVIDIA is a long raging one with each side taking the lead and then surpassing the other in leapfrog style action over and over with no end in sight. This is probably the only War effort I will ever support as at the sales...

By channelpronetwork.com on September 23, 2012

You have seen the good, the okay and the exceptional. The only “bad” thing about this card is that cap/coil combination that might interfere with a GPU pot, but that will not hinder extreme overclockers (who have a soldering iron anyway) and compared...

By overclockers.com on September 17, 2012

Nearly three years have passed since AMD made multi-screen gaming a reality with Eyefinity-equipped Radeons. Matrox technically got there first with its ill-fated Parhelia graphics card—and a decade ago, in fact—but its TripleHead scheme never caught on...

By The Tech Report on July 10, 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

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By channelpronetwork.com on May 07, 2012

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