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The XFX Radeon HD 7950 is an outstanding graphics card for the price, coming in at £207.96 in the UK and $269.99 in the US. (Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com. Prices may vary over time). The graphics card supplies a sufficient amount of power to maintain a 60FPS threshold on almost any current game with a 1080p monitor along with the games settings maxed out, if you’re monitor supports a resolution above 1080p or you are using more than one monitor and want to maintain that liquid smooth 60 Frames Per Second gameplay then perhaps you should take a look at running your 7950 in Crossfire or even upgrading to the 7970 to avoid the hassle that can come from using AMD Crossfire, that is if you also want to max the settings in your game otherwise the card should be able to maintain a good amount of FPS while running games over a 1080p resolution. If you do decide to use this graphics card for resolutions over 1080p then keep in mind that it will not natively support resolutions over 4096 x 2160 through display port, 4096 x 3112 for HDMI and 2560 x 1600 for Dual-Link DVI. Up to 3 monitors can be supported using a single XFX Radeon 7950 through any 3 of the following connections: 2 Dual-Link DVI ports, 2 Mini Display Ports and 1 HDMI port.
The graphics card includes 3GB of GDDR5 memory giving it the capability to withhold enough frame buffers to run games on 3 monitors without the game having to use slower memory from your computer to store graphics data in games, this helps keep the game running fluidly without any stutter or lag during gameplay. The graphics card itself includes two dustproof 92mm fans to supply ample cooling to the 2oz copper heatsink and keep the components within operating temperature while under stress; XFX calls this feature their DD (Double Dissipation) design. This heatsink design allows the card to be overclocked to higher frequencies and still run within a reasonable temperature range, this allows you to benefit from faster performance and even achieve speeds equivalent to the Radeon 7970 in some tasks.
The graphics card includes support for DirectX11 and OpenGL4.2 meaning you can get the latest and greatest out of upcoming games. The graphics card should be relevant and supported for at least another 4 years until it begins to struggle to handle new games, it’s competitor the Nvidia GTX 670 costs £221.75 in the UK and $324.99 in the US, the GTX 670 has less GDDR5 memory with 2GB compared to the Radeon 7950’s 3GB, both cards seem to perform similarly while playing games however I feel that the Radeon 7950 should be the better option considering it is cheaper and has an extra 1GB of GDDR5 memory meaning it can support higher resolutions without having to resort to slower options such as a hard drive or RAM to store graphics data.
In my opinion the XFX Radeon 7950 Double Dissipation edition is a great graphics card for the price. XFX’s DD and Ghost thermal design allows the card to be overclocked to 1GHz with ease as long as there is not a fault with the graphics card. It outperforms its competitor while maintaining a cheaper price making it the best option if you’re looking for a graphics card within a certain budget. Depending on your retailer it’s possible to get free games alongside the graphics card through AMD, voucher codes for both Steam and Origin can be sent through an email when you order the graphics card meaning to can begin playing the games while the graphics card is being delivered if your PC can handle them, then be blown away when you start the games up with your new XFX Radeon 7950 by the outstanding graphical performance that this graphics card can output. If your retailer supports this deal from AMD then this is a must have product to purchase and a worthy component to be part of your computer.