Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark 2003

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In 3DMark 2003, the Radeon HD 7970 succeeds to detach itself from both regular GTX 580 and the overclocked edition from Sparkle.

3DMark Vantage

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3DMark Vantage follows the same trend, with the 7970 on top, at the three available presets.

3DMark 11

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In the latest 3DMark version, the difference between the cards shrinks as we raise the resolution along with the detail levels.

Heaven 3.0

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In Heaven 3.0, 7970 succeeds to keep a noticeable difference from the overclocked GTX 580, at all resolutions, with or without filtering

Games

Aliens versus Predator

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AvP is one of the games where HD 7970 really shines in most of the test resolutions, besides 2560x1440 with 4AA filtering, where it is producing less than 60FPS.

Crysis Warhead

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In Warhead, the Radeon HD 7970 works fine util we get to 2560x1440, where lower than recommended FPS are produced.

Dirt3

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Radeon HD 7970 has nothing on Dirt3; the card impresses at all resolutions, with or without filtering.

Far Cry 2

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In Far Cry 2 we had a few surprises, mostly in the cases where filtering was applied and was surpassed by the GTX 580.

Lost Planet 2

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LP2 is also smooth sailing for the 7970 until 2560x1440.