Wednesday, January 4th 2012
HD 7970: Setting Benchmark Records With Quad CrossFireX and LN2
If you thought the overclocking and benchmark feats we reported on a few days ago here and here were impressive, wait until you see what four cards can do. Overclocking champion Shamino over at Kingpin Cooling has set four 3DMark and one Unigene benchmark record:These remarkable results were obtained using an SB-E i7-3960X CPU at 5.6 GHz on an Asus Rampage IV Extreme mobo plus lots of LN2 on the four graphics cards and CPU. It's interesting to note that the GPU clock speeds for the various runs were different, most likely due to some tests not running at the higher speeds. Test setup, CPU-Z / GPU-Z settings along with benchmark pictures follow:This card hasn't even gone on sale yet and it's already setting records, proving itself ever more worthy of its performance crown. It should be interesting to see what can be achieved when full retail release has been made and high quality customized boards are available to many more hardcore enthusiasts.
16 Comments on HD 7970: Setting Benchmark Records With Quad CrossFireX and LN2
Amazing scores none the less!! :) I think I get about P8000 with my crossfire setup.. which is about 25% the performance of that thing!!
I have to confess to a bit of a nedgasm at seeing the benchmark results and test setup. :o
Thanks to stefanels for the tip. :toast:
One word guys : WATER.
They will be worth gold bricks under water :toast:
Why is it everytime someone sets a hardware world record we get people crying about how thats not usable every day? It's a world record, take it for what it is, you don't need even 1/4 of this power for daily use anyways.
Top Performance score
Top Entry score
Top Extreme score
Also the records are more marked at Extreme presets, probably because the CPU is bottlenecking it all lol
Nice OC WR by the way.
Seen a 5.2Ghz 2500k bottleneck tri-sli GTX 570's so those GPU's at 1.6Ghz each are deffo CPU limited...
Roll on Ivy..