XFX Radeon HD 7970 Double Dissipation Black Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

1
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Superb performance.
Efficient power usage.
Low noise.

Cons:

Incredible (high) price.
No PhysX support.

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Last revision on September 25, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Superb performance
Efficient power usage
Low noise
Good multi-monitor support
3GB video RAM
4K display support
Switchable BIOS
Probably can be overclocked even higher

Reviewers Didn't Like

Incredible (high) price
No PhysX support
No preoverclocking
Slightly thirstier when under load

Expert reviews and ratings

100

We knew what to expect from the HD 7970 when coming into this review but I had no idea what kind of performance jump we would see with the XFX DD Black Edition Overclocked. With its core speed bumped up to an impressive 1000MHz we saw big jumps in...

By LanOC Reviews on January 19, 2012

It’s not unusual to see factory-overclocked videocards ship with custom cooling solutions—a few months after the GPU launches. This time, XFX hits the ground running with their Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition. This is a factory-overclocked card...

By Maximum PC on January 18, 2012

With jawdropping looks and performance, our only worries are the jawdropping...

By Atomic MPC on January 10, 2012

IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to...

By Benchmark Reviews on January 09, 2012

AMD pulled a fast one by launching the lush Radeon HD 7970 just before Christmas 2011. The firm gave add-in-board partners a January 9 date for releasing their own cards. One would suspect that partners looking to get their cards on shelves would just...

By HEXUS.net on January 09, 2012

100

o far today we have taken a look at some other brands of Radeon 7970 both in single and CrossFire modes. When it comes down to it though those cards are identical to the reference design card which we reviewed in December and so there was little new...

By HardwareHeaven on January 01, 2006

Well there you have it. The benchmarks pretty much speak for themselves with the AMD HD7970 leading in all but one game, Batman: Arkham City, itself a TWIMTBP game, heavily optimised for NVIDIA graphics cards. To make matters worse for the GTX580,...

By Vortez on February 26, 2012

From the onset of our testing it was clear the XFX R7970 BE was going to easily best the reference model in all of our benchmarks, and subsequently become the fastest single GPU graphics card we have tested. This is of course due to the overclocked...

By Neoseeker on February 21, 2012

As we have shown, the XFX R7970 is the fastest single core GPU we have tested to date. It even manages to better the awesome twin core AMD HD6990 which is a fantastic result. What XFX have created here is a graphics card that can handle anything you...

By Vortez on February 21, 2012

The HD 7970 has proven itself to be one of the post popular graphics cards in the post holiday buying season and with good reason. It is efficient, soundly beats NVIDIA’s incumbent flagship and While availability is still touch and go, AMD’s...

By Hardware Canucks on February 06, 2012

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