7970 Benchmark Results

[The2ff]

If one was started and I missed it, I appologize.

Just got my cards (2 HIS).

Both instantly hit 1125 (maximum allowed in CC) and had no issues in a benchmark run. Both cards stayed under 70C while OC'd in the benchmark run. Fan speed was 36%.

2600K@4.6

3DMark Score
P14248

Graphics Score
17628

Physics Score
9626

Combined Score
8297

GraphicsTest1
77.43 FPS


GraphicsTest2
88.91 FPS


GraphicsTest3
106.43 FPS


GraphicsTest4
53.68 FPS


PhysicsTest
30.56 FPS


CombinedTest
38.59 FPS


Stock cat drivers on AMD's site.

 

[Joseph F]

*In Borat vioce, Very nice! :thumbsup:

 

[superjim]

Are you using Cat 11.12 or these? AMD didn't add the "7900 Series" to the driver list-boxes until today (or late yesterday).

 

[jackstar7]

From what I read elsewhere, it's those 7900 drivers (I'm assuming they match what was sent on discs) or nothing. Someone reported 12.1 not recognizing the card.

 

[blackened23]

From what I read elsewhere, it's those 7900 drivers (I'm assuming they match what was sent on discs) or nothing. Someone reported 12.1 not recognizing the card.

This is correct. You cannot use 12.1 yet.

You have to use the CD installation drivers, or the specific 7900 drivers on the AMD website. Nothing else will work.

 

[The2ff]

I used the drivers found on AMD's site that were posted on 1/9. I have not tried to optimize anything either, just slap in the cards, install the drivers, benchmark.

Shouldn't be anything new really but figured I would post them anyhow. Retail cards seem to OC just fine.

 

[The2ff]

Bitcoin mining

Single card:

7970@925mhz core
543mhash

7970@1100mhz core
651mhash.

This is using Diablominer with default settings.

 

[Kenmitch]

This is correct. You cannot use 12.1 yet.

You have to use the CD installation drivers, or the specific 7900 drivers on the AMD website. Nothing else will work.

Would be nice if they ditched the unified drivers or at least just did them by series/generations.

Bitcoin mining

Single card:

7970@925mhz core
543mhash

7970@1100mhz core
651mhash.

This is using Diablominer with default settings.

That sounds good. What does a 6990 or 5870 get?

 

[piesquared]

The scaleability of GCN is phenominal.

 

[Vesku]

5870 at ~850Mhz gets around 400MH/s with GPUMiner. The kind of hashing Bitcoin does is one of the few things that can use pretty much every shader in a VLIW5 card.