[Tom'sHardware] Medal of Honor, Warfighter

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I posted it in this forum because it is an article on hardware benchmarking:



These are done on Windows 8 with the latest Drivers.
1080p Ultra



1600p Ultra



Note: stock 7970 and 680 are used for these benchmarks, so beware of the clock profile/Max OC differences:

stock 7970 runs at their 925Mhz stock core clock on benchmarks, they can reach a 1200Mhz Overclock on Average, which is a 30% Overclock

stock 680 runs at 1058 Boost Clock+a 50-110 Kepler Boost= 1100Mhz+ max boost clock on Benchmarks, due to Voltage lock, they generally can't reach a 1350Mhz Overclock, even that is only a 22% Overclock

So while these benches show that 7970 are about equal with 680(which on average $70+ more expensive), at max OC 7970 will pull ahead by at least 8%.
Edited by sherlock - 11/2/12 at 7:32am

The victory is not theoretical, for a 7970 running at stock clock/0% OC to tie a GTX running with a 9% factory overclock(1100+Mhz from 1006Mhz stock) is already a substantial victory.

The graph shows that 7970 ties with 680 which is both $60+ more expensive and used a 9% factory OC/Kepler Boost, just point out that on average 7970 Overclocks much further than 680 percentage wise and destroys it in Price/Performance, meaning in actual OC use 7970> 680 despite the graph shows they tie in average FPS(and 7970 wins in Min FPS)

If you are going to pull extreme examples like 1400mhz+ Lightnings( only 27% OC from stock 680's 1100Mhz, so it is still 3% behind an average 7970's 30% OC), do keep in mind 1250Mhz(35%) 7970s would be 8% ahead of that, and 1250Mhz on 7970 isn't as rare as a 1400Mhz 680(only a few Lightning or Classy with EVbolt can reach that).
Edited by sherlock - 11/2/12 at 9:50am