Conclusion
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| The Matrix Platinum
HD 7970 is one of the best Radeon HD 7970 out there, we didn't try it
yet under liquid nitrogen but we believe it will easily compete with the
Lightning from MSI. As for "normal" users thanks to the factory overclocking the
Matrix Platinum gives you a nice boost in performance over the reference
design. Furthermore the card features an ASUS made PCB design that comes with a lot of cool features
like more phases, a digital power design and so on and so forth. What we
also like is ASUS' DirectCU II cooler. It is a big cooler that's true
with it's triple slot size but it is very good. It was inaudible in both 2D mode
and 3D loads, after two hours of FurMark I still haven't heard the fans
of the card and the GPU temperature was as cool as 69°C. |
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- Noiseless in both
2D and 3D
- PCB Design
- Factory Overclocking
- Bundle
- Powerful cooling system |
- Triple Slot |
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| Performance |
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| Thanks to the high
factory overclocking, the HD 7970 Matrix Platinum was on average 15 %
faster than the reference HD 7970, which is enough to justify the high
price of the card along with the bundle and the other features. Furthermore
the power consumption is not bad too, only 34 more Watts under heavy
load than the reference card. In idle it's not that good, with a custom
design we expected a lower or close to reference design power
consumption but it's not. The power consumption in idle was 12 Watts
higher. |
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- Performance
- 15 % faster than the
reference HD 7970 |
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Recommendation |
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| In the end
this HD 7970 Matrix Platinum graphics card from ASUS is
faster, better, stronger than both reference HD 7970 and GHz Edition. So
we recommend
it to anyone who wants to invest money one of the best custom Radeon HD
7970 out there. |
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- Gaming
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Overclocking
- Extreme Overclocking |
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We
give the ASUS Radeon HD 7970 Matrix Platinum very good 5 out
of five stars. |
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Author: Christian Ney
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