Asus Matrix HD 7970 Platinum 3GB Graphics Card Review

Though this card has some extreme overclocking options, most are reserved for the extreme overclocker and enthusiasts and therefore we will be focussing on what results we’re able to get by just pushing the power envelope and increasing the speeds of the GPU clock and memory clock.

Reminding ourselves that a reference AMD Radeon 7970 comes with a GPU clock speed of 1050MHz and a memory clock speed of 1500MHz (6GHz Effective) and this card straight out of the box comes with a GPU clock speed of 1100MHz and a memory clock speed of 1650MHz (6.6GHz Effective), we were still keen to see if we could push it further.

We went with our usual bunch of software that we trust including MSI Afterburner, Furmark, GPU-Z and 3DMark 11 which gives us options to increase our cards performance and to stress test it too.

We were absolutely amazed by the results we achieved, of which you can find the validation here. We ended up 100% stable at 1281MHz GPU clock and a memory clock speed of 1800MHz (7.2GHz Effective) which is absolutely out of this world and it does seem we had a fantastic sample here as looking around, other sites weren’t quite able to get this high.