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

Alien vs. Predator

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Alien vs. Predator

The Alien vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced Tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion and high-quality shadow features, available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the aforementioned DirectX 11 related features offered by this benchmark, we also switched on 4X anti-aliasing along with 16X anisotropic filtering to more heavily tax the graphics cards being tested.

The Radeon HD 7950 had no trouble outpacing all of the other single-GPU powered cards in Alien vs. Predator, save for the higher-end Radeon HD 7970. The dual-GPU powered cards, however, maintained a significant lead. Also note, the RC11 drivers gave the 7970 a nice performance boost here.

CrossFire also scaled properly in this game and the Radeon HD 6950 CrossFire rig trailed only the dual-card Radeon HD 7970 setup.

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