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We recently published an article about a new way of testing graphics card performance in video games. Traditionally, graphics cards performance has been expressed in frames per second. The assumption has always been, the more fps your graphics card is capable of, the better video games will perform. But is it really that simple? Not quite so, it turns out. To really determine how a graphics card handles a video game, the average fps is not an adequate measure of performance, and you need to delve deeper. Frametime tests do exactly that.
We already tested the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 in this new way, along with the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti. Today it’s time for the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660.
Let’s check the performance of the new Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, a USD 350 video card based on the latest architecture from AMD.
AMD today announced the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and AMD Radeon HD 7850 graphics cards! The AMD Radeon HD 7800 series is designed to perform for serious gamers and we try them out on a number of games to see how they perform when put to the test. We also overclock them, test the acoustics, and see how efficient these new cards are!
Today AMD launch the 7800 series and allow us to look at their reference cards with partner availability to come later (around March 19th). With the same features as the 7900 series yet a significantly lower price today we find how well they compete with the 7950 and 6870 while looking in detail at the comparison with NVIDIAs GTX 560 Ti and GTX 570.
Already really impressed with what the new HD 7800 series can offer, it's time to throw a second HD 7870 into the mix and see what kind of performance this $700 CrossFire setup brings to that table. If previous HD 7000 series cards are anything to go by, though, we should get some great performance with impressive scaling.
If you haven't looked at our individual reviews of the new HD 7800 series cards I highly recommend you head on over and check out our thoughts on the new $249 HD 7850 and more expensive $349 HD 7870.
We've mentioned a lot about our thoughts on the HD 7700 series as a whole along with the general thought process on each model and like we've said every time, while AMD has the HD 6800 series at a similar price point, the HD 7700 series continues to lose its shine as it sits slower.
The HD 7800 series and HD 7900 series on the other hand don't have any competition within their own camp giving us a price point from AMD that isn't offered at the moment. So far we've seen the HD 7850 hits that $249 price tag perfectly. Now we want to find out if the extra $100 associated with the HD 7870 is worth the jump up.
The new Radeon HD 7850 is a mid-range video card based on the latest GPU architecture from AMD, dubbed "Graphics Core Next" or simply "GCN," which supports the new PCI Express 3.0 connection and the latest DirectX version (11.1). Let's compare it to its main competitor, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti.
While the HD 7700 series left us feeling overall pretty flat, the same can't be said for AMD's new HD 7900 series which offered us awesome performance. Along with strong numbers, though, we saw the new 28nm based cards run cooler, quieter and draw less power at both idle and load - they impressed us a lot.
We've got our fingers crossed that the HD 7800 series sits more in line with the HD 7900 series than it does the HD 7700 series. Considering AMD also have no older previous generation video cards at the $249 price point for the HD 7850 and $349 price point for the HD 7870, we're already off to a better start.
Earlier this year, AMD in short succession introduced three new GPUs in the Radeon HD 7000 series. In the meantime, AMD's partners have released a number of interesting new graphics card based on the new 3D chips, so it's only fitting that we have a look at which one of these new cards is the one to get. Over the weekend we published a round-up of Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 video cards on Hardware.Info. Now it’s time to take a closer look at the Radeon HD 7850/7870 graphics cards.
AMD just introduced the Radeon HD 7790 desktop graphics card that is powered by the new Bonaire GPU. This card uses the latest GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture from AMD along with 896 Stream processor units to bring better performance to gamers at the $149 price point. Read on to see how cards from Gigabyte and Sapphire do when put to the test!
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