According to this document, Sapphire will launch no less than 6 models of Radeon HD 7970.
Two models come with a factory-overclocked GPU @ 1335MHz (reference is 925MHz): the Atomic RX (air cooled) and Atomic WC (water cooled). (via).
And here is Sapphire’s basic HD 7970 (Da Original) with some tests:
The guys at OCUK have received a stack of HD 7970 from *** and HIS. They did a test with three HD 7970 (tri-crossfire setup) with Unigine Heaven (1680×1050): 72.6 FPS (single GPU) and 195.1 FPS (tri-CF). Nice scaling!
3DMark11: Shamino has overclocked a Radeon HD 7970 under LN2 with the following clock speeds: 1650MHz for the GPU and 1800MHz real speed (7200MHz effective) for the memory.
And for watercooling, Aquacomputer is releasing new waterblocks for HD 7970 and HD 7950. More information here.
That’s some great news compilation. Thanks JeGX.
If only the darn cards where any cheaper.:S
Let’s hope some nice, cheap and overclockable 7950 1.5GBs come along.
Interesting article:
http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/Does-AMD-have-2304-stream-processor-GPU-waiting
If you notice those crossed out Saffire specs indicate a more powerful chip was planned but cut for some reason.