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In Game Performance
While looking through our in game benchmarks, you will notice a few oddities. For one Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 had major single card performance increases with the new driver, that is why we actually saw better performance with the R7950 over the R7970. But where the R7950 excelled is performance in games like Crysis 2 with all of the settings cranked up including the ultra-texture pack, with a whopping 64.9 FPS. That means you don’t have to go crossfire or SLI to play a beautiful game with the settings cranked with the R7950, running in DX9 with lower settings will yield you a crazy 236.9 FPS also lol. Our notorious Metro 2033 benchmarks show the R7950 outperforming the GTX 580 considerably also.
With AMD’s new HD 7970’s rocking the boat slightly with both price and performance it’s about time we started to see the slow trickle of GPU’s that will fill in the rest of the HD 7000 series video cards. First on the list is the HD 7950, a card that a lot of people have been waiting for because of the high price of the HD 7970. There is no doubt that it’s not going to outperform the HD 7970, but how will this new card compare to the GTX 580? Today I’m not taking a look at a reference card, we have skipped directly to the XFX Double Dissipation Black Edition Overclocked version, similar in design to what we saw with their R7970.
