HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo & HIS HD7950 IceQ Review

The HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo ships in a long box identical to other cards in this family.

The bundle includes a Crossfire cable, video converters and software disc.

The HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo looks identical to the more expensive ‘X' GHZ Edition which we reviewed back in August.

The cooler overhangs the PCB on the right side and is formed around two large fans which cover the full width of the PCB.

The HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo is Crossfire capable in 2, 3 and 4 way configurations.

The card takes power from two 8 pin connectors. In theory this card could demand up to 375W of power.

This card has a DVI connector, full sized HDMI port and two mini DisplayPorts.

The cooler on the HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo is more substantial than the cheaper model. There are five thick heatpipes which run into two separate racks of aluminum fins on either side of the copper base. The card itself is covered in a heatsink to cooler the memory and VRM's on the PCB.

An overview of the HIS HD7970 IceQX² Turbo in GPUz. The card 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 1050mhz and the memory at 1,500mhz (6GBps effective).

The card has dual geometry engines, eight render back ends, 2048 unified shaders, 32 color ROPs per clock and 128 Z/stencil ROPs per clock.

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