Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell April 2, 2012 Featured Tech News, Graphics

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 is an arcade-style flight action game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft. After the events of the first game, the H.A.W.X squadron is sent to Middle East, where a high level of violence is being registered, and the appearance of various insurgents leaders in various hotspots. The team also has to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Russian nuclear weapons. The player will be controlling three groups: one American (Hunter), one British (Munro) and one Russian (Sokov), each with its own pilots and supporting characters. There will also be references to other characters in the Tom Clancy universe.

We are testing in full DX11 mode with all settings to maximum.

The Sapphire card managed to achieve 104 frames per second average at these settings, placing it behind the HD7950 by only a few frames per second.

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10 comments

Davis
April 2, 2012 at 8:57 am

Another good card from the Sapphire team 🙂
Brian McFadden
April 2, 2012 at 11:06 am

Great cards. My friend bought one and its really quiet. the coolers are great this year.
Terry Oreilly
April 2, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Bought the 7970 last week 🙂
Justin
April 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Quality cards, but its a tough decision id have to base on price right now. as they all overclock much the same.
Brian
April 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Its XFX or Sapphire usually, but that gigabyte card is a solid buy,

Only one problem. YOU CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE !!!”
Joseph
April 3, 2012 at 8:02 am

nice specs. good performance sapphire coolers seem a bit better than XFX coolers in regards to tempeatures.