AMD Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti Pro DirectX 11 GPU Review

Name: AMD Radeon HD 7950
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 12:01 AM EDT

Metro 2033

DirecX11 Gaming Performance

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is your basic post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment, but rather you’re left to deal with life, or lack there-of more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators. The game is loosely based on a novel by Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2003 boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform currently including a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. This title also supports NVIDIA PhysX technology for impressive in-game physics effects. We tested the game resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 with adaptive anti-aliasing and in-game image quality options set to their High Quality mode, with DOF effects disabled.

Metro 2033 proved to be somewhat of a strong suit for the Radeon HD 7950. In this game, the 7950 easily outpaced both flavors of GeForce GTX 580, and trailed only the 7970 and dual-GPU powered cards. The RC11 drivers also gave the 7970 a small boost in performance.

Unlike Batman: Arkam City, CrossFire worked in this game and performance scaling was very good. The Radeon HD 7950 CrossFire setup outpaced both the 6970 CrossFire and GeForce GTX 580 SLI setup without incident.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, Video Card, dx11, 7950

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com