Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 FleX Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 100352FLEX

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Pros:

Overclocked out of the box, Good overall overclocking potential, Very quiet in idle, Three monitors without the need for active DisplayPort adapter, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Dual BIOS, 3 GB of memory, Support for ZeroCore power, HDMI cable included, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1...

Cons:

High power consumption, Lower GPU OC potential than other HD 7950 cards, No memory overclock out of the box, PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking, CCC Overdrive limits too low

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Last revision on April 30, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Overclocked out of the box, Good overall overclocking potential, Very quiet in idle, Three monitors without the need for active DisplayPort adapter, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Dual BIOS, 3 GB of memory, Support for ZeroCore power, HDMI cable included, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1

Reviewers Didn't Like

High power consumption, Lower GPU OC potential than other HD 7950 cards, No memory overclock out of the box, PowerTune and ZeroCore may complicate advanced overclocking, CCC Overdrive limits too low

Expert reviews and ratings

FleX is an interesting idea that tackles an annoying problem head-on. If you connect two displays to your graphics cards, you can use any of the connectors that you wish, which includes DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI or VGA. On the other hand, if you're one of...

By micromart.co.uk on March 12, 2013

Sapphire's HD 7950 Flex is a solid implementation of a custom design, overclocked HD 7950. It comes with a unique feature, which is support for three HDMI/DVI monitors without the need for an active DisplayPort to DVI adapter. AMD has engineered their...

By techPowerUp! on July 17, 2012

The Sapphire FleX cards have been firm favourites in the Kitguru offices since they were initially launched and today we are looking at the latest high end model – the HD7950 FleX. Not only have Sapphire included their custom display technology,...

By Kitguru.net on June 06, 2012

Sapphire, as AMD's premium partner, always gets specific models with a particular capability or purpose in mind. The Radeon HD 7950 and HD 7870 cards suffixed FleX Edition, which we're presenting today, are just such cards. So, what's it about? While...

By InsideHW on February 16, 2013

After the rigorous rounds of testing, it is clear to see that although AMD cards may be beaten at lower resolutions, their capabilities quickly catch up and sometimes surpass nVidia's with large performance gains in high resolutions. As the purpose...

By Overclockers Club on July 05, 2012

We're big fans of Sapphire, and we're happy to let that known to our readers, as it allows us to show what products and brands we believe in, and Sapphire are one of the big ones, purely because of the diverse range of products they have in their...

By eTeknix on July 02, 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

2. Features and Specs3. A Closer Look4. Synthetic Benchmarks5. Gaming Benchmarks6. Crossfire Results7. Noise and Heat8....

By TechwareLabs on June 26, 2012

When we looked at previous Sapphire FleX models, we came away impressed with the technology but concluded the cards were generally underpowered for Eyefinity gaming at extreme resolutions. The improvements with the Radeon 7950 make for a much more...

By Pureoverclock on June 12, 2012

Setting up Eyefinty isn't as expensive as it used to be since AMD partnered with companies such as Accell to lower the price of active DisplayPort adapters, but there is always something to be said when something works right out of the box. That is...

By Neoseeker on June 12, 2012

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