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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC in CrossFire

by Parm Mann on 31 January 2012, 16:00 4.5

Tags: Sapphire, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Benchmark: 3DMark 11

Homepage: 3dmark.com/3dmark11 | Publisher: Futuremark | Download: Free basic edition

3DMark 11 is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.

Dual-GPU scaling in
3DMark 11
CrossFire at 720p CrossFire at 1080p SLI at 720p SLI at 1080p
58.6% 92.3% 57.1% 91.0%

3DMark 11 looks good for Sapphire; the second-rung 7950 OC graphics card has the edge over NVIDIA's finest single-GPU solution.

Stating the obvious, putting two together in CrossFire gives the user almost twice the power, but will modern-day games be able to make the most of all that dual-GPU promise?