HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo & HIS HD7950 IceQ Review

The HIS HD7950 IceQ ships in a tall box with rather nondescript artwork on the cover.

The bundle includes a Crossfire cable, an installation diagram, video converter and software disc. Always best getting the latest drivers for these cards from AMD's website however.

The HIS HD7950 IceQ cooler is primarily black, with a dark blue fan set at the extreme right side. It is built around a blue PCB.

The HIS HD7950 IceQ is Crossfire capable in 2, 3 and 4 way configurations.

The card takes power from two 6 pin PCI connectors.

There is a DVI port, a full size HDMI port, and two mini DisplayPorts on the rear I/O panel, as shown above. The design of this cooler ensures that hot air is blown out the rear of the computer case. Always a bonus.

The cooler is very easy to remove, being held in place with only 4 screws. It is based around a copper base with aluminum fins and four thick heatpipes. Each of the memory chips are directly cooled via the base. Thermal pads are installed on each position.

The PCB has additional VRM heatsinks to enhance cooling potential. HIS are using ELPIDA memory on this card.

An overview of the HIS HD7950 IceQ in GPUz. The card has 32 ROP's, 1792 unified shaders and is built on the 28 nm manufacturing process. The 3GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a wide 384 bit memory interface. The core is clocked at 925mhz and the memory at 1,250mhz (5GBps effective).

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