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Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X 3 GB Review
Packaging & Contents »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.
Sapphire's HD 7950 Vapor-X comes with a large dual-fan cooler that uses the company's famous vapor-chamber technology. On the Vapor-X you will also find a "Lethal Boost" button which switches to a second BIOS with higher clock speeds. With this BIOS, clocks are increased to 950 MHz GPU and 1250 MHz memory.
In our Sapphire's HD 7950 Vapor-X review, we will test both the normal and the boost BIOS (results marked as "Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X Boost 3072M").
Pricing of the Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X is 330 USD, which is a 10% premium, or $ 30 over the reference design.
| Radeon HD 7870 | GeForce GTX 580 | GeForce GTX 660 Ti | Radeon HD 7950 | Sapphire HD 7950 Vapor-X | HD 7950 Vapor-X Boost | GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon HD 7970 | HD 7970 GHz Ed. | GeForce GTX 680 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Units | 1280 | 512 | 1344 | 1792 | 1792 | 1792 | 1344 | 2048 | 2048 | 1536 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics Processor | Pitcairn | GF110 | GK104 | Tahiti | Tahiti | Tahiti | GK104 | Tahiti | Tahiti | GK104 |
| Transistors | 2800M | 3000M | 3500M | 4310M | 4310M | 4310M | 3500M | 4310M | 4310M | 3500M |
| Memory Size | 2048 MB | 1536 MB | 2048 MB | 3072 MB | 3072 MB | 3072 MB | 2048 MB | 3072 MB | 3072 MB | 2048 MB |
| Memory Bus Width | 256 bit | 384 bit | 192 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 256 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 256 bit |
| Core Clock | 1000 MHz | 772 MHz | 915 MHz+ | 800 MHz | 850 MHz | 950 MHz | 915 MHz+ | 925 MHz | 1050 MHz | 1006 MHz+ |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1250 MHz | 1250 MHz | 1250 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1375 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Price | $250 | $430 | $300 | $300 | $330 | $330 | $380 | $430 | $400 | $480 |
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