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HD 7970 Quad CrossFireX + LN2 Sets 3DMark Benchmark Records

Jan 05 2012 01:44 AM | qubit in News

AMD's HD 7970 graphics card continues to prove itself ever more worthy of its performance crown. This time, overclocking champion shamino over at Kingpin Cooling has set five benchmark records, four in 3DMark11/Vantage and one in Unigene Heaven:

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Shamino achieved these remarkable scores using an SB-E i7-3960X at 5.6GHz on an Asus Rampage IV Extreme mobo plus lots of LN2 on the four graphics cards and CPU. Note that the GPU clock speeds were different for the various benchmarks, likely because the higher settings weren't stable on some tests.

Benchmark results and CPU-Z, GPU-Z settings below:

Source: Kingpin Cooling forum (shamino)

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MoonPig
Jan 05 2012 04:25 PM

Imagine the score when the SR-3 is released ...

As good as this kind of advancement is, there really is literally no real-world possibility for these clocks. It's not like you'd be gaming and topping your LN2 up at the same time.

Nice to see how well these clock though, means we can get pretty decent scores on Air. Just waiting to see how nVidia reacts now.

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qubit
Jan 05 2012 08:21 PM

Yes, it will be interesting to see what nvidia has in store and they have to beat it, or it'll be another Bulldozer fiasco and I'm confident they will. These are the kind of performance wars we should be seeing in the CPU arena.

Personally, I prefer nviida's control panel and they still seem to have more glitch-free drivers to this day than AMD, despite those monthly upgrade cycles. Perhaps that TWIMTBP relationship really pays off? Since I went nvidia in the GTX 285 era, I've never looked back. Nowadays I've got a GTX 580 and it works beautifully.

And as far as LN2 is concerned, I could actually see some mad (and rich) enthusiast gamer setting up an automated LN2 top-up system with a big tank in the bakground, lol...

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