The guys in the labs of worldwide tech media have put the MATRIX HD 7970 through the wringer and come out with their conclusions. We've made a roundup of MATRIX HD 7970 reviews below, and be sure to click the links to read the full, in depth articles! HardOCP: Editors Choice Gold Award 'That is the key to the ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum cards success; it is meant to be overclocked. In a time when NVIDIA is gating voltage overclocking on the current GTX 600 series, the ASUS MATRIX comes along and shows us why we love tweaking voltage, what it can produce in terms of an overclock, and why voltage tweaking will hopefully never die amongst hardware enthusiasts.' VR-Zone: 9/10 OC Champion 'With no enthusiast-level refreshes on the roadmaps from both red or green camp for the forseeable future, the ROG Matrix 7970 Platinium is one of the fastest and most dexterous (overclocking-wise) single GPU card that money can buy.' OCaholic: 5/5 Stars 'In the end this HD 7970 Matrix Platinum graphics card from ASUS is faster, better, stronger than both reference HD 7970 and GHz Edition.

So we recommend it to anyone who wants to invest money one of the best custom Radeon HD 7970 out there.' TechPowerUp: 9.3/10 Highly Recommended 'ASUS has engineered the most powerful single-GPU AMD graphics card money can buy right now. The HD 7970 Matrix runs at 1100 MHz GPU clock, which is higher than any other HD 7970 available today. Only the PowerColor PCS+ matches it, but runs a much lower memory clock.

Memory clock on the Matrix is also very high, and with 1650 MHz it's finally a card that goes beyond the 1500 MHz barrier out of the box - good job ASUS. Being based on the Tahiti XT2 GHz ASIC, the Matrix also uses AMD's Boost clock feature that runs the card at 1100 MHz during normal gaming and drops down to 1050 MHz during Furmark or similar testing. Overall, these enhancements result in a 11% performance improvement over the regular HD 7970 and a 3% boost over the HD 7970 GHz and MSI HD 7970 Lightning.' Guru3D: Top Pick 'It is time to wrap this review up, the ASUS Radeon HD 7970 MATRIX PLATINUM that originates from the ROG team is a little gem with lots of hidden features.

Our category browser page lets you browse through recent HD 7970 reviews. HD 7970 GHz Edition 3 GB: TechPowerUp. ASUS Radeon HD 7970. Jun 22, 2012. AMD try to steal the lime light back from NVIDIA with the new Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition. We see if they can do it!

It's a dish best served cold for the pro-overclockers though. It's abundantly clear that this product is aimed at these guys with that extreme PCB and power design, the VGA Hotwire functionality, the the extra buttons for voltage and fans, that snazzy Matrix LED indicator and of course also the many monitor outputs you can use to setup even an Eyefinity6 solution.' Hardware.info: Silver Award 'With air cooling ASUS achieves higher clock frequencies and scores than MSI and XFX for example. It's also positive that the card's cooler performs well in terms of cooling and noise production. The many extra hardware and software features make overclocking this card a blast.' Overclockers Club 'Overall, I am quite blown away by this card.

Ce Freza Mi Se Potriveste Program Pro here. ASUS didn't stop at enlarging the PCB to fit an unmatched 20-phase power circuitry or adding overvolting buttons directly on the PCB, but it kept going and produced the king of the hill HD 7970.'

At idle, the ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum idled at 110W system power, this is 12W higher than the reference Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition video card. Keep in mind though the ASUS MATRIX is running at higher frequencies, even just sitting there. Surprisingly the GTX 680 had the lowest idle wattage.

What really matters though is at full-load. We saw the ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum reach up to 408W system power while gaming, which is about 6% higher than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition at full-load. Again, the ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 is running at a much faster memory frequency, and 50MHz faster GPU frequency. When we overclocked the video card to 1.31GHz/7GHz it demanded 12% more system power and reached 458W system power. Even though the ASUS MATRIX HD 7970 Platinum was eating more system power, it was at the same time staying cooler doing it.

At idle the GPU was at a cool 35c, which beats the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, and the GeForce GTX 680. At full-load the fan ramped up to 41% and the GPU stayed at 76c. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GTX 680 were a lot hotter at 83c, and we noticed the fans on those cards were running even higher, past 50% fan speed. When we overclocked the video card, we used the Turbo Fan button, which kept the GPU cool at a wonderful 60c even running at 1.33GHz. We tested the temp at the highest possible frequency we could to see if it could maintain a cool temperature, and it definitely can. Noise-wise, the video card is quiet when you don't use the Turbo Fan.

However, once you push that button there is a noticeable sound increase, but it isn't an annoying sound. There is no whine, or buzzing, or high pitched frequencies, it's just a constant low rush of air sound. ASUS has done a good job on the acoustics with this video card. Inside a case, it would be hard to hear even at 100% fan speed with gaming going on.