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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Video Card Review

Let’s check the performance of the revised Radeon HD 7970 video card, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, codename “Tahiti XT2.”

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Far Cry 2

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
  • 3. The AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Cont’d)
  • 4. Main Specifications
  • 5. How We Tested
  • 6. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • 7. Far Cry 2
  • 8. Aliens vs. Predator
  • 9. DiRT3
  • 10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • 11. Battlefield 3
  • 12. 3DMark 11 Professional
  • 13. Media Espresso 6.5
  • 14. Conclusions

Released in 2008, Far Cry 2 is based on a game engine called Dunia, which is DirectX 10. We used the benchmarking utility that comes with this game at 1920×1200 and 2560×1600, setting overall quality to “ultra high,” maximizing all image quality settings, adjusting anti-aliasing to “8x,” and running the “Ranch Long” demo three times. The results below are expressed in frames per second and are an arithmetic average of the three results collected.

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

FarCry 2 1920×1200 Difference
GeForce GTX 680 126.2 1%
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 124.4
Radeon HD 7970 93.8 33%

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

FarCry 2 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 85.2
GeForce GTX 680 84.4 1%
Radeon HD 7970 72.4 18%
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