We have first pictures of two new Radeons HD 7970 from Gigabyte. So far Gigabyte is the first to show non-reference fan system on this graphics card. Gigabyte GB-R797OC-3GD Windforce 3X Radeon HD 7970 is a model with modified cooling build on new blue PCB with Ultra Durable VGA technology. It is most likely to [...]

Sapphire is preparing new Radeon HD 7970 graphics cards. There are many variations with overclocked core and memory clocks. Some of them feature 6GB of memory. techPowerUP: It looks like AMD’s claims of HD 7970′s extreme overclocking capabilities weren’t the usual PR hoopla. A confidential company document revealing the non-reference models Sapphire has in the [...]

Until now, any site that has reviewed the Radeon HD 7970 has done so, using the sample AMD provided. There are very few CrossFire reviews out there, because it’s simply too hard to get more than one AMD sample. 3-way and 4-way CrossFire reviews could be even rare, if such reviews even exist to begin [...]

According to Fudzilla, some new information regarding release date of Radeon HD 7000 series, has surfaced. Fresh news suggest that we can expect new cards by March, first quarter of 2012 will provide up to 9 new Radeon graphics cards. Radeon HD 7970 3GB – January 9th – $549 The first graphics card released so [...]

According to Fudzilla, supply of new Radeon HD 7970 will be in healthy condition and most of the AMD’s partners are confident that it will hit stores on January 9th. As far as we know, most of the partners should be ready to ship their cards to shops on time, but availability of specific models [...]

Last Thursday the Radeon HD 7970 launched, the product is creating a lot of buzz alright. Next to our reference review article we have shown you a CPU scaling article. There’s still one bit missing though, tweaking performance. Now initially I wanted to wait with this article until 3rd party tweak tools would allow for [...]

Club3D is preparing their newest graphics card which is Radeon HD 7970 with 3GB of memory. The sale of CLUB3D Radeon HD 7970 is to begin on January 9th, in terms of both design and technical features remains the same as AMD’s reference card. New Radeon has DirectX 11.1 support, was build in 28nm process [...]

Over the last few months, motherboard manufacturers have been raising a big hoopla over how it’s important to pick their products that feature PCI Express 3.0 (Gen 3.0) slots. There was even some drama between competing motherboard manufacturers over who was first to the market with this technology, even when consumers couldn’t really make use [...]

Today AMD release the first card in their 7000 series – the high end HD7970, which is built on the latest 28nm manufacturing process. AMD’s HD6970 was a huge success for the company, so the replacement card is certainly going to get a lot of media attention over the coming weeks. AMD claim it has [...]

The new Radeon HD 7970 marks the launch of AMD’s next generation video cards. The Radeon HD 7970 represents the fastest single-GPU video card from AMD with a new architecture. We will evaluate gameplay performance and compare it to the previous generation, as well as the competition, in single-display and Eyefinity resolutions. AMD’s much anticipated [...]

Hey hey hey now… a year and seven days after the release of the Radeon HD 6900 series, AMD is already moving it’s high-end platform towards a new architecture. Face it, value for money wise the 6900 really isn’t a bad deal, but performance wise the architecture just had a hard time dealing with NVIDIA’s [...]

It is going to be an exciting 2012. Both AMD and NVIDIA are going to be bringing gamers entirely new GPU architectures, Intel has Ivy Bridge up its sleeve and the CPU side of AMD is looking forward to the introduction of the Piledriver lineup. Today though we end 2011 with the official introduction of [...]

So here it is, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 and, for the time being, it’s the fastest graphics card around. AMD has blinked first and opted to release its brand new graphics card architecture before Nvidia, and just before the new year. It’s a brave move by AMD though. Bringing out a radically different graphics [...]

In a separate review published today we covered the new Radeon 7970 architecture, took a look in detail at one of the cards and detailed performance in single GPU use. This included games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and comparisons with the GTX 580 and 6970 as well as a look at GPU [...]

In the graphics card industry rarely does 6 months go by when there isn’t a significant new release from either AMD or NVIDIA but over the last 12 months we have seen little new from either manufacturer, especially in the high end. That all changes today though with AMD’s launch of the Radeon HD 7970, [...]

Out with the old, in with the new. Let’s welcome the newest kid on the block, the Radeon HD 7970, part of AMD’s spanking new Southern Islands GPU family. This card is the industry’s first with a few things, it uses the first ever high-performance GPU built on the 28 nanometer silicon fabrication process; Radeon [...]

There has been over a year of rumors leading up to this day but after countless false leads and misplaced rumors, AMD is finally set to launch the first salvo of their Southern Islands architecture. Unlike nearly every series since the days of R600, this isn’t simply another refreshed core layout with a few bits [...]

We have been hearing about AMD’s “Southern Island” family of graphics processors for quite some time. Even during briefings for the Northern Island series of products which ultimately became the Radeon HD 6000 series, news about Southern Islands was already trickling out. Rumors about these parts have been rampant for what seems like ages, but [...]

Bring ye a fresh set of bragging rights because today AMD has (paper) launched the first graphics card powered by a 28 nm GPU, the Radeon HD 7970. Equipped with one Tahiti chip, this new, high-end offering is the first to make use of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture which is claimed to deliver [...]

What we’ve found is AMD’s Review Guide for people testing new Radeon. It is a guide with various benchmarks results for comparision during testing and reviewing. We thought it is worth sharing it with you. Please note, these benchmarks do not represent the final product.