AMD Radeon HD 7970 Quad CrossFireX Stomps 3DMark Records

[twelch82]

Records set with a liquid nitrogen setup aren't very useful to me. The test should be an unattended 24 hour continuous loop, without consuming anything but electricity. Build an extreme refrigeration cooling setup if you want, but we should at least be able to imagine someone playing a game on it.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]mobrocket[/nom]i know what joke willl be coming[/citation]

Sweet. But can it play Angry Birds?

 

[ilysaml]

It sounds like All AMD products are achieving the highest possible Overclocking.

 

[subasteve5800]

Dude needs to learn some cable management lol...

 

[jryan388]

Toms cant even get two to test xfire and this punk gets 5???

 

[we_san]

Calm down. The purpose is to break the current record for marketing agenda.

 

[notsleep]

dim the lights much?

 

[alidan]

can it ubersample crysis would be a better question at this point

 

[Guest]

screw it i alerady konw i'll be voted down by the nerdiots around here, but i'll still say it:
this is pointless. do the test using air or water cooling, otherwise its pointless. i also say it has to stay at that clock speed for a year continuous before its a record. this was pointless bullshit.

 

[DEVILVSANGEL00]

i think this is cool, cant wait to get my hands on a pair of these and be futureproofed for another 3 years 😀

if only nvidia released their new line up sooner we could finally compare the best gpu out there while havin better prices due to compertition,

either way love 28nm tech 😀 keep it coming

 

[mrmaia]

Bulldozer also stomped a record.

 

[srgess]

Not a big cap over current world record wich is quad sli gtx 580. I mean yeah it beat it but for how long.

 

[Shape]

My gooooodddd!!!

 

[Filiprino]

[citation][nom]ramon zarat[/nom]LOL.... some people are weird! Practical application? As if the purpose of this world record attempt had anything to do with "practical"! What's the "practicality" of a dragster doing 240Mph on a quarter mile? How about climbing Mont Everest? We do those things simply because we want to know if we can and because it's fun. It's called the human nature. Most of which is... unpractical![/citation]
Well, you chose bad examples. Dragsters are specifically machined an developed for doing what they do. People climbing the Everest train everyday and test the limits of the human body.

With extreme overclocking people are just buying cards that anyone can buy and drop some nice cooling and high current on them.

While dragsters and people climbing the Everest improve technology and knowledge about the limits of materials, mechanics and human body, extreme overclocking does not test nothing because they aren't using nothing specifically built for that. No test of special silicon made for high voltages, current and low temperatures. Manufacturers don't aim at extreme overclocking when they design their chips, people are just buying normal chips that at most are cherry picked.

With dragsters you are using tech specifically built for that, and eventually that tech somehow will benefit normal cars. With people climbing the Everest maybe better equipment for living on extreme conditions will be developed, or you get better knowledge of our environment.

With extreme overclocking there are no additional benefits than throwing hardware to the trash just for fun.

 

[Namey]

[citation][nom]mobrocket[/nom]i know what joke willl be coming[/citation]
It used to play Crysis, until it took an arrow to the knee...

There! I've revitalized the joke.

 

[jgutz2006]

those are not just barely topping previous records but destroying them! amazing.

This is not about being pratical, its proof they have a superior product. They used similar methods with current generation Nvidia and AMDATI (technically previous generation AMDATI i guess) and this just shows that the new cards are superior in every way and the Die Shrink allows for the insane GPU clock speeds. Good work!

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]Yeah, but the main question is still without answer: can it play crysis?[/citation]

I think this comment is starting to show it's age

 

[Guest]

I wonder how many GPUs he went through before he decided to use liquid Nytrogen.....

 

[blackmancer]

stomps on world record? they're not really that much more than previous current :/

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]wolfram23[/nom]Holy crap almost 1.5ghz on the core clock!And yeah that's a pretty sound beating, especially the Unigene Heaven bench.[/citation]The crazy thing is that people will actually be running these watercooled at 1.2GHz+ stably. The core speed on these absolutely destroys everything else

...not to say core speed is everything, but it's a BIG jump. If Kepler pulls of this big of an improvement, that's a big win for us gamers.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]Filiprino[/nom]Well, you chose bad examples....With people climbing the Everest maybe better equipment for living on extreme conditions will be developed, or you get better knowledge of our environment.With extreme overclocking there are no additional benefits than throwing hardware to the trash just for fun.[/citation]Actually, Everest was actually a perfect example if you read up on some of the B.S. associated with climbing there. It is exactly as frivolous and self-indulgent as overclock record-setting.

 

[sayantan]

I wanna play metro on this rig at ultra in 3D @2560x1600 res..

 

[A Bad Day]

Once the drivers and other software stuff roll out, I want to see the quad setup get benchmarked with games.


You know you crushed Crysis if you can render a 6-monitor setup with all eyecandy set to max at more than 120 FPS...

 

[Ricco1911]

Yes well done AMD, go to hell nvidia(with your high prices). I am proud to be a AMD fanboy 😀

 

[Guest]

To get comparable performance out of an FX processor, they would have had to use liquid helium. That's *not* practical.