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Today we are looking at a new card from Club3D – the HD7870 Royal King, which ships in an overclocked configuration with custom cooler. The big question we will answer today, can Club3d compete in this competitive marketplace against the likes of market leader Sapphire?
Not that long ago Club3D made a very bold and striking decision to exclusively work with AMD graphics processing units only, leaving Nvidia on the sidelines. Since then we have seen a flurry of activity from Club3D to produce a vast range of SKUs of HD 7000 series card to cater for every price point for every AMD GPU, notably with the release of their brand new ’13 series.
Today we are looking at one of their upper-range HD 7790 graphics cards, or more specifically the HD 7790 royalKing from their Poker Series. Like the majority of Club3D graphics cards the HD 7790 royalKing we have here today uses their CoolStream cooling solution to keep things running cool and quiet without breaking the bank. The Club 3D HD 7790 royalKing comes with factory overclocks out of the box, on the GPU only, which is overclocked 7.5% to 1075MHz while the memory runs at a stock speed of 6GHz. Other than that the unit is kind-of normal although the design in my opinion is one of the nicest as the unit uses a black PCB, black cooling shroud and is very compact which is ideal for such a mid-range GPU.
The Club 3D GTX480 has 480 cores and has a GPU operating at 700MHz. It also has 1401 shaders and 1536MB of GDDR5 memory running at 3696MHz and is paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.
The GTX470 version is only a little bit slower but not by much. The 470 has 448 cores and the same reference clocks as the rest of the GTX 470 cards that are currently up on the market today. It has a core clock speed of 607MHz, 1215MHz for the shaders, and a speed of 3348MHz for the 1280MB of GDDR5 memory which is nicely paired up with a 320-bit memory interface.
When we compare the performance of the GeForce GTX 690 and the Radeon HD 7990 there isn't a clear winner. In some benchmarks one is better, and in others worse. It's clear, however, that you do need two GPUs for gaming on three monitors with high settings, so dual-GPU cards are definitely useful.
If you're interested in spending money on a Radeon HD 7970, then the Club 3D royalAce is certainly worth considering. It is clearly the fastest Radeon HD 7970 that we've tested until now. It's also the hottest, which somewhat limits its overclocking potential. It's also noisier than average. If you're only interested in performance, then this Radeon HD 7970 royalAce is a good choice. The ASUS HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 is about six degrees cooler, about 10 dB(A) quieter, a little cheaper but also a little slower.
Graphic cards
You probably think that you've already seen all there is to see about AMD Radeon HD 7870 graphics cards, but the Radeon HD 7870 jokerCard 2 GB that Club 3D recently launched is something special indeed. That's because this video card isn't based on the Pitcairn GPU like the other 7870 cards, but instead the Tahiti chip that's traditionally been used for the high-end Radeon HD 7950 and 7970. That makes the 7870 jokerCard faster but not more expensive than the standard HD 7870.
Graphic cards
In a crazy world where power is everything, whether it be cars or computers, being top is always key and as we find bills rising, especially gas and electricity. For us enthusiasts, that is a really bad thing, as we generally run our systems 24/7 and have the most power hungry components being stressed all day, every day. The bad thing with this is with prices going up, mainly for electricity, it means we’ll be faced with some tough decisions to make over the coming months in relation to our computer hardware.
China is enjoying increasing success with its own CPU developments, even though for now it is confined to the internal markets mostly. However, they are already undertaking the next step, and preparing to move into the GPU arena.
Lian Li ist für seine schnörkellosen Aluminiumgehäuse bekannt. Diese sind hervorragend verarbeitet, bieten zahlreiche praktische Detaillösungen und eine zeitlose Eleganz. Allerdings sind sie zumeist auch eckig wie ein alter Volvo. Doch das diesjährige Showcase PC-U6 bricht mit dieser Tradition.
An seinem Stand zeigte MSI neue Grafikkarten seiner Top-Baureihe Lightning, welche die schnellsten Grafikprozessoren von AMD und NVIDIA mit einem eigenen PCB-Design und einer eigenen Kühllösung vereinten. Wir haben uns die MSI R6970 Lightning und die MSI N580GTX Lightning für euch angesehen.
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