AMD HD 7950 Boost Clock BIOS Update

W1zzard · Aug 14, 2012, 11:26 AM

To read this review go to: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A..._BIOS_Upgrade/

Casecutter · Aug 14, 2012, 02:52 PM

Told you!

HD64G · Aug 14, 2012, 03:07 PM

Nice work Wiz! Dual BIOS is a nice addition to top GPUs. Gives some power to future addons on sold products.

NHKS · Aug 14, 2012, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Increased voltage will lead to increased stability at higher clock speeds, which is probably required to ensure that all cards can handle the increased clocks. Unfortunately this means that power consumption is increased, by around 20% during typical gaming, which seems to be a bad trade considering 5% performance improvement. I am a bit worried that AMD is cannibalizing on the hard work of their GPU development team to reduce power consumption - we've seen the same on the HD 7970 GHz Edition. As result the HD 7950 Boost has 15% worse performance per Watt compared to the original HD 7950 design.

sums it up..

okidna · Aug 14, 2012, 03:09 PM

"Unfortunately this means that power consumption is increased, by around 20% during typical gaming"

Great extras

m1dg3t · Aug 14, 2012, 03:15 PM

Thanks for the quick/thorough write up W1zz

Doesn't look like ATi is heading in the right direction with these GPUs IMO. Glad i got mine when i did, thinking about snagging another one before they are all "Boost" equipped

Dj-ElectriC · Aug 14, 2012, 03:22 PM

Oh well... can't say i didnt expect this from AMD
Means nothing to an overclocker anyway...

W1zzard · Aug 14, 2012, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-ElectriC

Means nothing to an overclocker anyway...

the bios increases voltage and CCC limits, so it might be of some use to overclockers, too.

but i agree with you, in general better to just OC yourself

cadaveca · Aug 14, 2012, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by W1zzard

the bios increases voltage and CCC limits, so it might be of some use to overclockers, too.

but i agree with you, in general better to just OC yourself

Those voltage boosts are rather high compared to my cards, which run 0.95 V by default @ 900 MHz. I can run 1000 MHz with 1.07 V...

I hope we see some BIOSes for non-reference cards soon! Would make overclocking a bit easier with higher stock voltage!

Sah7d · Aug 14, 2012, 04:41 PM

I like the effort with the AMD cards, some fanboys have been saying that the GTX660Ti will sweep with the AMD market, even with just a few (3fps - 5fps) difference.

Many people didnt seems to care when the Nvidia GTX480/70 where a real beasts consuming energy and now all of the sudden it seems to care when AMD is practicing the same effort.

I like AMD and Nvidia but I dont like when nvidia products release a new card becouse it is all an exaggeration.

revin · Aug 14, 2012, 05:56 PM

Another great review W1z!

Where is the comp's to the 5870?
Are the 5870's going to be dropped from all reviews?
I still follow the scaling to keep up on where my 5870XXX Ed. falls to try to follow the trend on what is going to be my best second card to add on the Z68 board.

To me, I think any 6k card is still out so I'm hoping to find where the sweet spot in the 7k cards lay

Hayder_Master · Aug 14, 2012, 06:41 PM

Before and After, it's remind me with artists Facelift

N3M3515 · Aug 14, 2012, 07:12 PM

So weird, 15% increase in clocks and only 5% increase in perf.
And 7970 has like a 12% increase in clocks and like a 10% inc in perf.
Something is wrong..

But anyhow it seems that this and the 660 ti will be in a dead heat.

W1zzard · Aug 14, 2012, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by revin

Where is the comp's to the 5870?

5870 has been dropped from the latest rebench (just like GTX 480). unfortunately the local slave market was out of people who could benchmark graphics cards

tt_martin · Aug 14, 2012, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by W1zzard

the bios increases voltage and CCC limits, so it might be of some use to overclockers, too.

Yeah, you should probably check whether it helps or not.

Quote:

Originally Posted by N3M3515

So weird, 15% increase in clocks and only 5% increase in perf.
And 7970 has like a 12% increase in clocks and like a 10% inc in perf.
Something is wrong..

The memory frequency stays unchanged.

Red_or_Dead · Aug 14, 2012, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cadaveca

Those voltage boosts are rather high compared to my cards, which run 0.95 V by default @ 900 MHz. I can run 1000 MHz with 1.07 V...

MSI HD7950 TF3

cadaveca · Aug 14, 2012, 08:21 PM

That's Nice, but I'll never use anything MSI, since they lie to me and make false promises(and yes, I can back that claim up, or I'd not be saying this). If that was ASUS, or any other brand, I'd have said "cool, nice cards", but they are MSI, so are garbage to me.

My cards do not clock quite as well, unfortunately, but at the same time, mine are also pulling very little power. My full rig, with IVB @ 4600 MHz, pulls under 400 W when gaming, with dual 7950's.

Don't get me wrong, that's just my personal opinion, not TPU's opinion, but I have no love nor respect for MSI and their products.

HumanSmoke · Aug 14, 2012, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sah7d

Many people didnt seems to care when the Nvidia GTX480/70 where a real beasts consuming energy and now all of the sudden it seems to care when AMD is practicing the same effort.

Maybe you should acquaint yourself with the truth rather than some idealized concept regurgitated from fanboys of a different stripe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sah7d

...becouse it is all an exaggeration.

I tend to think along the same lines with some of the hyperbole-riddled posts that tend to pop up in the aftermath of graphics reviews.

Assimilator · Aug 14, 2012, 08:39 PM

So the 7950 now draws more power than the GTX 670 but still can't beat that card. Not seeing the point of this BIOS release...

Jstn7477 · Aug 14, 2012, 08:44 PM

Is this BIOS safe to attempt to flash on an XFX FX-795A-TDFC? I'd just like to know as I'm sick of the 500MHz UVD clock (which I have to disable ULPS to avoid) and the screen randomly twitching when going to certain webpages or even just using normal programs. I've had a ton of problems with both my XFX cards (RMA'd the first one because a fan broke literally 3 weeks after purchase). Had to increase PowerTune to 20% to even get the card at stock to run better than my 6950 did, card gets to 87c at 1000/1450 1.05v and XFX denies any problems with their cards...

happita · Aug 14, 2012, 09:11 PM

This means that I probably won't be getting a 7950 after all. Looks like I will just be side-grading kinda...to a 7850

Quote:

Originally Posted by tt_martin

The memory frequency stays unchanged.

Well, to be honest....increasing memory frequency rarely, if ever, increases gaming performance much at all. So I think it's best that they left it alone anyway, but from a marketer's standpoint it would be a sin to not make those numbers look bigger to that big dough-eyed customer out on the floor of an electronics retail store.

alexsubri · Aug 14, 2012, 10:15 PM

In all honesty, is this worth it? I already bricked my 2nd Bios , and my Sapphire OC Edition 7950 runs fine at 1125/1275

Omar24Kobe · Aug 14, 2012, 10:26 PM

That's Sounds nice ... what about the reference 7970 ???

I'm your huckleberry · Aug 14, 2012, 10:52 PM

The Anandtech review mentions that in most games, they noticed a continual fluctuation of the cock speed from the boost to the base state. Is this something that was noticed in your review as well?

happita · Aug 14, 2012, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I'm your huckleberry

they noticed a continual fluctuation of the cock speed from the boost to the base state.

Completely unneccessary, but I just lol'd real hard

Aug 14, 2012, 11:26 AM	#1
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Aug 14, 2012, 03:15 PM	#6
m1dg3t Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,881 (1.72/day) Thanks: 623 Thanked 419 Times in 344 Posts System Specs	Thanks for the quick/thorough write up W1zz Doesn't look like ATi is heading in the right direction with these GPUs IMO. Glad i got mine when i did, thinking about snagging another one before they are all "Boost" equipped __________________ Why dazzle 'em with brilliance when you can baffle 'em with bullshit. Alterius non sit, qui potest esse sui! Und setzet ihr nicht das leben ein, Nie wird euch das leben gewonnen sein! If knowledge is power, then ignorance is bliss! If god didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep!

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Aug 14, 2012, 10:15 PM	#22
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Aug 14, 2012, 10:26 PM	#23
Omar24Kobe Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 17 (0.06/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	That's Sounds nice ... what about the reference 7970 ??? __________________

System Name:	Kobe's System
Processor:	Intel Core I7 SandyBridge 3820 ... OC @ 4.3
Motherboard:	GIGABYTE X79-UD3
Cooling:	CoolerMaster X6
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance (4x4)16G DDR3 Bus 1600 @ 9.9.9-24
Video Card:	AMD Sapphire HD 7970 ... OC @1100/1560
Hard Disk:	ADATA XPG SX900 120G + WD Green 500G
Optical Drive:	Asus Lightscribe DVD RW + Mouse: Logitech G500 + Warriors Mouse Mat
CRT/LCD Model:	AOC 24 inch
Case:	CoolerMaster HAF-X 942
PSU:	Everest 80Plus 1010W
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Benchmarks:	3D Mark Vantage (P34346) GPU:37040 - CPU:28181 3D Mark11 (P9595)

Aug 14, 2012, 10:52 PM	#24
I'm your huckleberry Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 5 (0.01/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	The Anandtech review mentions that in most games, they noticed a continual fluctuation of the cock speed from the boost to the base state. Is this something that was noticed in your review as well?

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