XFX Radeon HD 7950 DD Double Dissipation Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

CA: http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=radeon+7950
US: http://us.ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=radeon+7950

Edit: I failed. This card uses heatpipes, NOT a vapour chamber. This was obvious as soon as I took a closer look at the cooler!

The HD 7950 is finally here for folks who don't have QUITE a big enough budget for a "king of the hill" graphics card, but want most of the performance (or even the same performance as a stock 7970 if they are willing to overclock!) of the fully-fledged card!

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[markothevrba]

No top comment? Well, someone better come up with something stupid and unoriginal fast!

[fatcatonrampage]

@markothevrba hey look it says Double D's

[3Target33]

@MrSuckmyballs32 i've already bought my LGA 2011 ROG Rampage IV Formula ;), but thanks again, and cheers :)

[MrSuckmyballs32]

@3Target33 no problem man, specially if you look to get a gaming rig these days, I would deffinatelly recomend you the 2600k, why well because its allready a fast processor, its easy to OC, has good thermals and it can OC very very high.

and to be quite honest 16 PCI-e lanes is more than sufficient to run SLI or CF (both at 8x) because when you go above 2 card configurations, the scaling doesnt necessarily improove all that much

[3Target33]

@SwiftXZ $100 more

[3Target33]

@MrSuckmyballs32 ah wow, thanks. it clears up all my questions

[MrSuckmyballs32]

@3Target33 no, like Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge will be first introduced on the LGA 1155 platform, and much like sandy bridge have just 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, a dual channel DDR3 1333 memory controller, really they are both the same architecture, the only difference is the trancistor design (tri gate trancistors which give a small bump in terms of trancistor performance) and a smaller manufactoring size, after that Intel will introduce Ivy Bridge-E on the LGA 2011 platform as an enthusiast chip

[3Target33]

@MrSuckmyballs32 do you think the Ivy bridge CPUs will be on the LGA 2011 platform?

[codaassasin]

haha, he said Double D's!

[sergen292]

cat!!

[MrSuckmyballs32]

@3Target33 buddy the Sandy Bridge-E CPU's have 40 PCI-E 3.0 lanes in them and even then any performance gain you see can be attributed to the CPU not the GPU.

for all of you thinking that Ivy Bridge will be a silver bullet, you need to lay off the marketing crap, it will be good, it will have better thermals and probably have somewhat better scaling but it wont be that much revolutionary because other than manufacturing size and transistor design changes, Ivy Bridge isnt a new architecture.

[3Target33]

@MrSuckmyballs32 wrong, you'll see an advantage when the new ivy bridge line of CPUs come out