FRONTPAGE HIS 7950 IceQ Turbo GPU Review

[Overclockers.com]

The Tahiti and Tahiti Pro architecture has been out for quite some time now. Since its release, board partners have had the time to create superior solutions compared to reference models from completely new PCB redesigns to new cooling. HIS brings to the table their IceQ cooler attached to a 7950. Today we will get a chance to review the HIS 7950 IceQ Turbo and see what it has to offer consumers.

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[Frakk]

Thank's EarthDog. a clean and fair review, as usual.

Reading through your comments about the Cooler over the RAM Chips i think this is a bit of a poor design on some of these cards, not just the IceQ.

I made an observation about my Gigabyte which i touched on, its in another thread so i wont go into it here

I would like to say something about how AMD cards are coming along in general, if i may.

Nothing deep, just that i'm impressed about how much they have improved with the latest offering of drivers, the high end AMD cards are now absolutely comparable with high end nVidia cards, as your Graphs here, and others show.

Just a well done from me to AMD for that.

BTW, i love the overclockers "meh" badge

 

[EarthDog]

...the Cooler over the RAM Chips i think this is a bit of a poor design on some of these cards, not just the IceQ.

No doubt. However, on this model, the gap seemed abnormally large. To be fair, it didnt seem to hinder things much though, but still could have been better allowing, potentially for even cooler temps and higher overclocks since this card has memory voltage control.

The performance driver recently released has been huge for AMD IMO. Its a back and forth game of one upsmanship between the two camps and their drivers (and cards of course). At this time, it really depends on the game and the overclocks for the performance of comprable cards (power consumption, and other things not included).

 

[Frakk]

The game of one upsmanship is good for us (stating the obvious i know) just as long as AMD and nVidia can both continue to be so close to continually swap performance for $ positions we win.

As for the thing i found with my card, i will take a picture in better light tomorrow so you can see exactly what i'm talking about, its not good.

I'm going to phone ocUK about RAM'ing it when i'm not using my Desktop for a while.

 

[bmwbaxter]

Nice review like usual. Does seem a shame that a card with that potential is hindered by a poor HS design in regards to ram IC contact with HS. Hopefully they will correct that issue on other cards.

@Frakk
I also agree with the job well done by the latest AMD driver release! Good to see a back and forth, great for us consumers