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MSI R7970 Lightning Graphics Card Review (Twin Frozr IV)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 19, 2012 Featured Announcement, Graphics

Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.

Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.

Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

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  • Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
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We use the following settings: 1920×1080 resolution. Anti Aliasing off. Anisotrophy 4, Tessellation normal. Shaders High. Stereo 3D disabled. API: Direct X 11.

The R7970 Lightning is only 2 frames per second slower than Nvidia's GTX590, showing the benefits of the highly overclocked state.

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15 comments

  1. Joe
    March 19, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Lovely, very nice, and yet again very expensive……… we can only dream!

  2. Muppett
    March 19, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Wow… so thats £500 for a card with no copper used as a cooling material, and Aluminum used instead,
    thats a less ductile material = an inferior cooling solution, using a cheapr material for more money…

    MSI really know how to impress – or charge more for using cheaper materials!!!

  3. Benjamin
    March 19, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Good point from muppett, copper might have improved on the results by 1-2 c more.

    however, the end result is great as the testing shows.

  4. neliz
    March 20, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    @muppet:

    Actually the Cooler material is copper, but it’s nickel coated, so it doesn’t corrode (very, VERY easy with copper)
    Only the fin array is made of Aluminium

  5. Progeny
    May 10, 2012 at 12:46 am

    I take it 12.3 drivers were used for this test and the other custom 7970’s?

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