XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation 3 GB Review

ccokeman - January 26, 2012
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Specifications:

General	UPC Number:778656058118
Processor & Bus	Chipset version: ATI Radeon HD 7970 GPU Clock: 1000 MHz
Memory	Memory Bus: 384-bit Memory Clock: 5.7 GHz Memory Size: 3 GB Memory Type: DDR5
Feature Technologies	AMD Eyefinity Technology: Y AMD HD3D Technology: Y Other Features AMD - CrossFire ready: Y
Display Output	HDMI Ready:1.4a Max Supported Resolution (ANALOG): 2048 x 1536 Max Supported Resolution (DIGITAL): 2560 x 1600 Output - DL-DVI-I: 1 Output - HDMI: 1 Output - mini DP: 2 Dual link Support: Y Display Port ready: 1.2
Physical	Card Dimension (cm): 27.5 x 11.12 x 3.81 Card Dimension (inch): 10.8 x 4.4 x 1.5 Card Profile: Dual Package Dimensions (cm): 16 x 32.1 x 9.8 Package Dimensions (inch): 12.6 x 6.3 x 3.9 Package Weight (Kg): 1.47 est. Package Weight (lb): 3.24 est. Thermal Solution: HD7970 MBA Ghost Dual fan fansink Thermal Type: Dual slot
Includes	Promotional Bundles: PSU Cross Marketing Insert Quick Installation Guide: 1 XFX Serial Number Door Hanger: 1 XFX BE badge: 1 Installation CD with Multi-Language User Guide: 1 Cross Fire Bridge: 1 Driver CD Installation Guide: 1
Requirements	External Power - 6-Pins: 1 External Power - 8-Pins: 1 Minimum Power Supply Requirement: 500 watt XFX Recommended Power Supply: XFX 650W PSU

Features:

XFACTOR Features:

GPU Edging: Black Edition Selection Process
Double Dissipation
Ghost Thermal Technology
HydroCell Thermal Solution
Duratec: Solid Capacitors
Duratec: Ferrite Core
Duratec: 2oz Copper PCB
Duratec: IP-5X Dust Free Fan

Duratec: XFX Bracket

PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11-capable graphics
9th generation programmable hardware tessellation units
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 4.2 support
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
DirectX® 10/11 Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology1
Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
AMD App Acceleration2
OpenCL 1.2 Support
Microsoft C++ AMP
DirectCompute 11
Double Precision Floating Point
AMD HD Media Accelerator
Universal Video Decoder (UVD)
H.264
VC-1
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
Adobe Flash
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
Enhanced Video Quality features
Advanced post-processing and scaling
Deblocking
Denoising
Automatic deinterlacing
Mosquito noise reduction
Edge enhancement
3:2 pulldown detection
Advanced video color correction
Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Flesh tone correction
Color vibrance control
Dynamic contrast
Dynamic video range control
AMD HD3D technology
Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
Blu-ray 3D support
Stereoscopic 3D gaming
3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology
Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling
Cutting-edge integrated display support
DisplayPort 1.2
Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display
Multi-Stream Transport
21.6 Gbps bandwidth
High bit-rate audio
Quad HD/4k video support
3GHz HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format,
Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
Max resolution: 4096x3112
1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
Quad HD/4k video support
Dual-link DVI with HDCP Max resolution: 2560x1600
VGA Max resolution: 2048x1536
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology
Automatic power management with low power idle states
AMD PowerTune technology
Intelligent TDP management technology
Dynamic clock speed/performance enhancement for games