Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz) x4 2GB G.Skill DDR3-1600(CAS 8-8-8-20) Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79) OCZ ZX Series (1250w) Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom (2048MB) Gainward GeForce GTX 670 Phantom (2048MB) Gainward GeForce GTX 680 (2048MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 (3072MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024MB) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (3072MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 SOC (3072MB) HIS Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB) HIS Radeon HD 7950 (3072MB) HIS Radeon HD 7870 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 7850 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 6990 (4096MB) HIS Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 6950 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 6870 (1024MB) Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit Nvidia Forceware 301.42 AMD Catalyst 12.7
According to 3Dmark 11 Pro, the Gigabyte HD 7970 SOC is 17% faster than a standard HD 7970 and 7% faster than the GHz Edition card. Without any voltage modifications, we were able to reach a core clock speed of 1.2GHz resulting in a score of 3362pts, 6% higher than Gigabyte’s factory overclock and 23% faster than the standard 7970. Eventually, we arrived at a core clock of 1260MHz and 1600MHz for the GDDR5 memory which boosted the 3Dmark score to 3554fps – 31% faster than the standard 7970 and quicker than both the previous-generation dual-GPU cards.
