VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition 3 GB

Introduction

I would like to thank OCUK and Caseking for proving the review sample.

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 later met heavy opposition from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 and 670, which has caused HD 7970 pricing to go down quite a bit.



VTX3D's HD 7970 X-Edition is a highly overclocked HD 7970 using a custom dual fan cooler and a large clock increase to 1050 MHz GPU and 1425 MHz memory.

HD 7970 Market Segment Analysis

	Radeon HD 7870	GeForce GTX 580	Radeon HD 7950	GeForce GTX 670	Radeon HD 7970	VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition	GeForce GTX 680
Shader Units	1280	512	1792	1344	2048	2048	1536
ROPs	32	48	32	32	32	32	32
Graphics Processor	Pitcairn	GF110	Tahiti	GK104	Tahiti	Tahiti	GK104
Transistors	2800M	3000M	4310M	3500M	4310M	4310M	3500M
Memory Size	2048 MB	1536 MB	3072 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	2048 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	384 bit	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit	384 bit	256 bit
Core Clock	1000 MHz	772 MHz	800 MHz	915 MHz+	925 MHz	1050 MHz	1006 MHz+
Memory Clock	1200 MHz	1002 MHz	1250 MHz	1502 MHz	1375 MHz	1425 MHz	1502 MHz
Price	$330	$380	$380	$400	$450	$480	$500