Well, I first thought wow what will we see for power consumption… and next noticed that MSRP, I reckoned it couldn’t fair well. Although, the power isn't out of bounds and furnishes strong performance. PowerColor did very nice work, they seemed to find good balance!
And now at $270 it starts to be deserving of dialogue… Especially against such reference 660Ti while those can be found at $260, with the PCS+ you obtain lavish Tour’de force construction and just more value in my mind.
Against a 7950 like the Sapphire it diminishes in luster, but differences are really in the advantage of acquirement of Boost clock. Which for me because that advantage vanishes when going to OC it makes it more of a quandary. Buying it that way and then not employing it squanders its main advantage... then just grab a non-boost. I hope with the "Oland" they find a way to keep Boost, but not have to sacrifice it when OC’d up to a certain level, kind of what Nvidia does but with less domineering nanny. While then a second BIOS that does allow straight old fashion OC’n.
So the question is, grab the 7950 and use a it is, or the PCS+ and juice it that little extra. IDK
