AMD Radeon 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review

Written by Harry Butler

June 22, 2012 | 12:02

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Arma II: Operation Arrowhead

Publisher: IDEA Games

From our Operation Arrowhead Review:
'Operation Arrowhead is still a massive challenge for any PC to play smoothly, so you should forget about running it on maximum settings. Bohemia Interactive claims to have optimised things for Arrowhead, but we didn’t find that it ran any faster than Arma II. This is a great shame, as when maxed out, Operation Arrowhead’s guerrilla-infested mountains are simply breathtaking to behold.

Operation Arrowhead doesn’t fundamentally change the gameplay of Arma II, so it’s still a very unforgiving mil-sim. If you’re expecting to run and gun and live then forget it, in a mil-sim such as Operation Arrowhead you have to think like a soldier to survive.
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We test this hugely demanding game at its most challenging settings, with all the detail options set to Very High and High anti-aliasing enabled. For the benchmark itself, we use a 60-second FRAPs run performed within our own custom time demo. As the benchmark is variable due to AI inconsistencies, tests are performed three times and the average result is used.

AMD Radeon 7970 3GB GHz Edition Review AMD Radeon 7970 3GB GHz Edition - ARMA2 Performance

Arma II: Operation Arrowhead

1,920 x 1,080, High AA, Very High Settings, DirectX 9

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
    • 80
    • 95
    • 76
    • 87
    • 73
    • 81
    • 70
    • 78
    • 61
    • 69
    • 58
    • 74
    • 56
    • 70
    • 53
    • 58
0
25
50
75
100
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

Arma II: Operation Arrowhead

2,560 x 1,600, High AA, Very High Settings, DirectX 9

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
    • 63
    • 75
    • 52
    • 60
    • 47
    • 53
    • 40
    • 45
    • 34
    • 39
    • 33
    • 42
    • 31
    • 40
    • 29
    • 33
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

Arma II: Operation Arrowhead

5,760 x 1,080, High AA, Very High Settings, DirectX 9

  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GHz Edition
  • AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
    • 36
    • 41
    • 31
    • 36
    • 26
    • 31
    • 22
    • 27
    • 22
    • 25
    • 20
    • 26
    • 18
    • 22
    • 0
    • 0
0
10
20
30
40
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

*despite running the latest drivers, the GTX 690 4GB continues to not work at 5,760 x 1,080 with 4 x AA in ARMA 2

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