AMD Radeon HD7970 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 SLI Performance Review

Stefan Mileschin · 13th January 2012, 06:43

The AMD Radeon HD7970 is marketed as the 'World's fastest single-GPU Graphics Card' and many reviews have compared it against the GTX580 which is its competitor. What about everyone else? Not everyone owns a GTX580 and many users have older cards, some in SLI or Crossfire who are quite happy with their setups. Not all gamers play at 2560x1600 or higher either.

When a user upgrades their CPU and Motherboard, they will likely keep their old cards especially if they support DirectX 11. To find out how the HD7970 fares against such older cards we compared it to a pair of NVIDIA GTX460 in SLI

This review combines the best gaming platform Intel has to offer - the i7-3690X CPU and X79 chipset with the best graphics technology AMD has to offer, the Radeon HD7970 to create one of the fastest systems on the market. Can a single Radeon HD7970 from 2011-12 beat two mid end GeForce GTX 460 in SLI from 2010? The results we found were quite interesting.

http://www.nitroware.net/reviews/245...ce-review.html

13th January 2012, 06:43	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,500	AMD Radeon HD7970 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 SLI Performance Review The AMD Radeon HD7970 is marketed as the 'World's fastest single-GPU Graphics Card' and many reviews have compared it against the GTX580 which is its competitor. What about everyone else? Not everyone owns a GTX580 and many users have older cards, some in SLI or Crossfire who are quite happy with their setups. Not all gamers play at 2560x1600 or higher either. When a user upgrades their CPU and Motherboard, they will likely keep their old cards especially if they support DirectX 11. To find out how the HD7970 fares against such older cards we compared it to a pair of NVIDIA GTX460 in SLI This review combines the best gaming platform Intel has to offer - the i7-3690X CPU and X79 chipset with the best graphics technology AMD has to offer, the Radeon HD7970 to create one of the fastest systems on the market. Can a single Radeon HD7970 from 2011-12 beat two mid end GeForce GTX 460 in SLI from 2010? The results we found were quite interesting. http://www.nitroware.net/reviews/245...ce-review.html

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