HIS Radeon HD 7970 X Turbo 3 GB

Introduction

AMD's Radeon HD 7970 has been on the market for a while now. The card introduced a new shader architecture and brought numerous improvements in power consumption. It met heavy opposition from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 and 670, which has caused HD 7970's pricing to go down quite a bit.

We have seen several recent releases of premium HD 7970 variants geared towards overclocking through high clock-speeds and maximum cooling-power. Prominent members of these cards are the ASUS MATRIX, MSI Lightning, Gigabyte SuperOC, and Sapphire Toxic.



HIS is now entering the arena with their HD 7970 X Turbo, which, unlike many other enthusiast HD 7970 cards, comes in a dual-slot form factor. The clock speeds have been increased significantly to 1180 MHz on the GPU, which is the highest GPU clock we've seen on an HD 7970, and 1500 MHz on the memory; only the ASUS MATRIX comes with a higher memory clock.

Price-wise, HIS is also asking a lot. The card can be yours for $600.

HD 7970 Market Segment Analysis

	GeForce GTX 670	Radeon HD 7970	GeForce GTX 680	HD 7970 GHz Ed.	MSI HD 7970 Lightning	Gigabyte HD 7970 SuperOC	Sapphire HD 7970 Toxic	ASUS HD 7970 Matrix	HIS HD 7970 X Turbo	GeForce GTX 690
Shader Units	1344	2048	1536	2048	2048	2048	2048	2048	2048	2x 1536
ROPs	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	2x 32
Graphics Processor	GK104	Tahiti	GK104	Tahiti	Tahiti	Tahiti	Tahiti	Tahiti	Tahiti	2x GK104
Transistors	3500M	4310M	3500M	4310M	4310M	4310M	4310M	4310M	4310M	2x 3500M
Memory Size	2048 MB	3072 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	2x 2048 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit	2x 256 bit
Core Clock	915 MHz+	925 MHz	1006 MHz+	1050 MHz	1070 MHz	1080 MHz	1100 MHz	1100 MHz	1180 MHz	915 MHz+
Memory Clock	1502 MHz	1375 MHz	1502 MHz	1500 MHz	1400 MHz	1375 MHz	1500 MHz	1650 MHz	1500 MHz	1502 MHz
Price	$380	$390	$480	$400	$500	$500	$600	$500	$600	$1000