Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz) x4 4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600(CAS 8-8-8-20) Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79) OCZ ZX Series (1250w) Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) AMD Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 (3072MB) AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2048MB) AMD Radeon HD 7850 (2048MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 6990 (4096MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 (2048MB) Asus Radeon HD 6870 (1024MB) HIS Radeon HD 5870 (1024MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 (3072MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024MB) Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit Nvidia Forceware 295.73 AMD Catalyst 12.2 + AMD Radeon HD 7800 (8.95.5)
The 3Dmark 11 extreme test claims that the Radeon HD 7870 is just 9% slower than the Radeon HD 7950, which is an incredible result. But possibly more amazing than that is that the Radeon HD 7870 performs ~6% faster than the GeForce GTX 580. The Radeon HD 7850 is also quite snappy delivering 4% more performance than the Radeon HD 6950 and 20% more performance than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. With that in mind, let’s move on to see how these new Radeon HD 7800 series graphics cards perform in over a dozen games…
