ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum Video Card Review

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 08:18

The lightning BE would still be held back by its 1.35v soft limit, the matrix will do 1.4v standard and more with a simple jumper....MSI are now playing catch up imo.

Edit: above guru review the only manage 1275mhz at 1.3v...

oweneades · 19 Oct 2012 at 08:27

Nickolp1974 said:
Wont be the fastest stock 7970 for long, the 7970 lightning BE will be landing in a couple of weeks, with a 1150 boost clock, depends how the thing overclocks though, arn't the newer tahiti chips meant to be better??

On average the new "Ghz" edition HD7970's (and their eqvuivilant HD7950's) seem to overclock to around the same level as their non Ghz contempories.

There doesn't seem to be much evidence that they are any better apart from being faster out of the box.

humbug · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:17

MoRT489 said:
Another review here: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,19.html

Is it just me or does it seem odd to anyone else that they are only getting 50 to 60 FPS for the top end Nvidia and AMD cards on Sword Breaker?

Seems very low to me.

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:20

humbug said:
Is it just me or does it seem odd to anyone else that they are only getting 50 to 60 FPS for the top end Nvidia and AMD cards on Sword Breaker?

Seems very low to me.

Is the reason why THIS thread now exists

I will run OP:Swordbreaker this morning (full mission bench) and update that thread with results. Its maybe not a million miles away from correct, they do have 4xAA+HBAO enabled.

Gregster · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:23

I will also run sword breaker (not sure how far in that is).

humbug · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:25

Ok, i'll run it to.

Rusty0611 · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:27

I bench it from when you get out the LAV to when you clear the house with the rockets coming out of it.

This is the standard benchmark for this mission I think...

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:30

gregster said:
I will also run sword breaker (not sure how far in that is).

Its the first mission of the game, you should be able to select it from the campaign menu.

Rusty0611 said:
I bench it from when you get out the LAV to when you clear the house with the rockets coming out of it.

This is the standard benchmark for this mission I think...

It is what I see used most for BF3 benchmarking as its said its the closest in SP that you'll get to MP demands, though it still isn't going to be as demanding as 64 player + big map.

@humbug, if you could, run some benches for other games and post them in the benchmarks thread, we only have 7970/680 results at the moment.

humbug · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:39

I will

for the games that i currently have, its not many

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:42

It all counts

LtMatt · 19 Oct 2012 at 10:58

Interesting you guys mention this i played this mission yesterday i can confirm the fps did drop down into the 50's as it did in that benchmark with AMD/Nvidia cards. However my average fps were much higher than in that review due to my overclock.

Gregster · 19 Oct 2012 at 11:29

I will give that a run on stock and with my OC and sli stock and OC.

Yaayuh! · 19 Oct 2012 at 11:42

Gibbo, how long will these be at £399?

LtMatt · 19 Oct 2012 at 11:50

gregster said:
I will give that a run on stock and with my OC and sli stock and OC.

Sorry gonna stray a little OT here but...

Can anyone find some 7970 reviews that show minimum and average fps for battlefield 3 single player benchmarks operation sword breaker?

Found this one so far but am looking for others using a better cpu.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/12/22/amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb-review/5

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 11:58

I'll do it, you want base line stock (925/1375) or moderate OC (1200/1600)?

Rusty0611 · 19 Oct 2012 at 12:02

LtMatt said:
Sorry gonna stray a little OT here but...

Can anyone find some 7970 reviews that show minimum and average fps for battlefield 3 single player benchmarks operation sword breaker?

Found this one so far but am looking for others using a better cpu.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/12/22/amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb-review/5

That is what the benchmark thread is for

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LtMatt · 19 Oct 2012 at 12:06

pgi947 said:
I'll do it, you want base line stock (925/1375) or moderate OC (1200/1600)?

Rusty0611 said:
That is what the benchmark thread is for .

I'm trying to compare the difference the cpu might make, if any, to the minimum fps.

I guess if anything it would make more of a difference online though than offline.

At first i thought it wouldn't make any difference at all, but after looking at other 7970 users minimums mine do seem to be a tad lower.

Just wondering whether an i7 with extra cores/threads would improve my minimums and trying to find some official benchmarks which document min/avg/max.

In that one i posted they have an i5 like me.

Rusty0611 · 19 Oct 2012 at 12:09

LtMatt said:
I'm trying to compare the difference the cpu might make, if any, to the minimum fps.

I guess if anything it would make more of a difference online though than offline.

At first i thought it wouldn't make any difference at all, but after looking at other 7970 users minimums mine do seem to be a tad lower.

Just wondering whether an i7 with extra cores/threads would improve my minimums and trying to find some official benchmarks which document min/avg/max.

In that one i posted they have an i5 like me.

Ah OK, I see.

Yeah more of a difference online definitely.

I can run one when I get in at stock 680 clocks if you like, i.e. roughly level to the 7970? At work till around 5:30 so someone may jump in before me and provide some data.

Edit: PGI is on it already

LtMatt · 19 Oct 2012 at 12:24

Thanks Rusty but i think it would be more helpful with 7970 results, thanks pgi.

pgi947 · 19 Oct 2012 at 12:40

Benchmark thread updated with 7970 stock and OC scores