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I thought about grabbing 7950 CF at product launch but held out. With the recent price cuts, I caved. Just got em running and wanted to share first impressions.
Gigabyte went with a plastic shroud for the latest WindForce cooler. IMO, a shroud should be sturdy enough to hold the card by without flexing or bending; this proved to be the case as it's fairly thick plastic. The metal bracket used to stiffen the PCB looks good too. Nice job Gigabyte:
Installed pic:
AMD ZeroCore
I run multi-gpu and surf nearly as much as I game; so I liked the idea of ZeroCore upon hearing about it. Does it work? Seems so.
Here's GPU1 in idle:
and GPU2 (notice GPU, memory, and temp numbers):
Worth noting, ZeroCore will not engage with GPU-Z running. GPU2 will sit at 800 core and 1300 mem.
Sure a Kill-A-Watt is not the most precise way to measure power consumption; but it's
cheap and shows ZeroCore works. Here's system at idle just before ZeroCore engages:
and after:
Unigine Heaven 3.0
Plenty of benchmarks already out there so I did a quick run of Heaven using 560ti 448 SLI @ 800 core and 7950CF @ 950 core. A mismatch, but all I had on hand. 560ti 448 SLI posts some respectable numbers though.
560ti 448 SLI, no AA, 4x AF, tesslation disabled:
560ti 448 SLI, 4x AA, 16x AF, extreme tesslation:
7950 CF, no AA, 4x AF, tesslation disabled:
7950 CF, 4x AA, 16x AF, extreme tesslation:
Gigabyte went with a plastic shroud for the latest WindForce cooler. IMO, a shroud should be sturdy enough to hold the card by without flexing or bending; this proved to be the case as it's fairly thick plastic. The metal bracket used to stiffen the PCB looks good too. Nice job Gigabyte:
Installed pic:
AMD ZeroCore
I run multi-gpu and surf nearly as much as I game; so I liked the idea of ZeroCore upon hearing about it. Does it work? Seems so.
Here's GPU1 in idle:
and GPU2 (notice GPU, memory, and temp numbers):
Worth noting, ZeroCore will not engage with GPU-Z running. GPU2 will sit at 800 core and 1300 mem.
Sure a Kill-A-Watt is not the most precise way to measure power consumption; but it's
cheap and shows ZeroCore works. Here's system at idle just before ZeroCore engages:
and after:
Unigine Heaven 3.0
Plenty of benchmarks already out there so I did a quick run of Heaven using 560ti 448 SLI @ 800 core and 7950CF @ 950 core. A mismatch, but all I had on hand. 560ti 448 SLI posts some respectable numbers though.
560ti 448 SLI, no AA, 4x AF, tesslation disabled:
560ti 448 SLI, 4x AA, 16x AF, extreme tesslation:
7950 CF, no AA, 4x AF, tesslation disabled:
7950 CF, 4x AA, 16x AF, extreme tesslation:
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