ASUS Matrix Radeon HD 7970 Platinum Review

Name: ASUS Matrix Radeon HD 7970 Platinum
Brand: ASUS

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, December 28, 2012, 10:30 AM EDT

F1 2012

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

F1 2012

F1 2012 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation and like Dirt series, it sports impressive visuals with DX11 support. “Ultra” settings for shadow effects and post processing elements like depth of field then become available to the gamer and in turn, crank up the workload on the graphics subsystem. The game engine also makes use of multi-core processors for better performance on high-end systems. We tested the game configured with its Ultra graphics options at resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 with 4X anti-aliasing enabled.

We saw a performance trend similar to a couple of the other titles we tested with in our F1 2012 benchmarks. Here, the ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 Platinum once again trailed the factory overclocked GeForce GTX 680 card at the lower resolution, but it came back and just nudged past the GeForce at the higher resolution.

Tags: AMD, Asus, Radeon, Matrix, platinum

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