PowerColor Radeon HD7950 880 MHz 3GB DDR5 PCI-Express

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Will this card support 144hz refresh at 1080p? It has HDMI, mini DP, and DVI DL, but it is a 2012 card. It was released January 2012.

Also, if I am using HDMI will I be able to get 75Htz out of her at 1080p?
 
The refresh rate would be a function of the monitor. If you’re asking whether or not the card is capable of maintaining 144fps at 1080p, then that would be completely dependent on the graphics settings and the particular game being played. You may be ok in older titles, but definitely not in any newer game, and the Tahiti series GPUs do not support Freesync.
 
Yeah if this is even for remotely modern gaming then you should have sold that card when it was actually worth something. Even something like a lowly GTX 1650 base model would completely slaughter the 7950 in modern games.
 
Thanks guys. Good to know a 159.00 card would give me a lot better performance than my old 2012 card.

BTW, what is a good AMD/nVidia card under 200.00? Or is spending 200 a waste of money and I need to spend more?

I'm going to eventually upgrade my old monitor and I will probably do so with a 144hzmodel at 1080.
 
Thanks guys. Good to know a 159.00 card would give me a lot better performance than my old 2012 card.

BTW, what is a good AMD/nVidia card under 200.00? Or is spending 200 a waste of money and I need to spend more?

I'm going to eventually upgrade my old monitor and I will probably do so with a 144hzmodel at 1080.

When you find something don't haphazardly throw that card out. You would be surprised what they can fetch on eBay. They do great FP64 work for distributed computing
 
The hd7950 is still a fairly stout card and also has a TON of overclocking headroom. If you overclock you're looking at 20-30% bump in performance.



You can definitely still play a lot of modern titles with medium settings on.

Wait for 5600xt and see how it does vs the 1650 super.
 
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I would buy an RX 570 8Gb as that is the level of a R 290x in performance but scaled down in size and power to me as I own both cards and know what they Fire Strike and would be like running Cross Fire HD 7950 = RX 570
 
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When you find something don't haphazardly throw that card out. You would be surprised what they can fetch on eBay. They do great FP64 work for distributed computing
Hey, I didn't know that. I keep all of my cards for trouble shooting problems. I have two others right now, one an old what, nVidia Gforce 7800 OCed card, lol. I still have my behemoth nVida GTX 295 dual GPU card. That thing would make a great boar anchor. It weighs enough. Thanks for the tip. I wonder if the GTX 295 is worth anything?
 
Hey, I didn't know that. I keep all of my cards for trouble shooting problems. I have two others right now, one an old what, nVidia Gforce 7800 OCed card, lol. I still have my behemoth nVida GTX 295 dual GPU card. That thing would make a great boar anchor. It weighs enough. Thanks for the tip. I wonder if the GTX 295 is worth anything?

I can't really say project wise, but if you have free power most Nvidia cards are decent. I think that one is quite a bit older than most I am familiar with.

Edit: not saying Nvidia cards are miserable with power.. lol. I meant that card in general. No different than the 7990's for instance being a dual AMD card.. power consumption is high.
 
The hd7950 is still a fairly stout card and also has a TON of overclocking headroom. If you overclock you're looking at 20-30% bump in performance.



You can definitely still play a lot of modern titles with medium settings on.

Wait for 5600xt and see how it does vs the 1650 super.

How much would I have to spend to get high settings to play well 1080 today, with at least a two year life span until the next card upgrade?
 
I can't really say project wise, but if you have free power most Nvidia cards are decent. I think that one is quite a bit older than most I am familiar with.

Edit: not saying Nvidia cards are miserable with power.. lol. I meant that card in general. No different than the 7990's for instance being a dual AMD card.. power consumption is high.
Oh, that GTX 295 card was a power f-ing hog when running full out. I wouldn't have replaced it but the games i wasplaying backwhen I did, in 2012,stopped coding for it's dual GPU. Otherwise, it was blowing toplevel brand new cards in 2012 completely away with raw FPS at any setting. It's Direct X was old though.
 
How much would I have to spend to get high settings to play well 1080 today, with at least a two year life span until the next card upgrade?

I'm still comfortably running a 760gtx.. most will laugh, but as a 4gb card, with a powerful CPU behind it, it runs pretty well.
 
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I'm still comfortably running a 760gtx.. most will laugh, but as a 4gb card, with a powerful CPU behind it, it runs pretty well.
You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.

Something like the GTX 1650 Super would literally be 2.5 times faster and I would consider that the minimum for newer demanding games at 1080p and 60+ fps.
 
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You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.

Something like the GTX 1650 Super would literally be 2.5 times faster and I would consider that the minimum for newer demanding games at 1080p and 60+ fps.

It's ok. I grew up playing games at 30fps with a 300 ping. 60 fps at medium quality works for me. I rarely game, mostly just DC.
 
It's ok. I grew up playing games at 30fps with a 300 ping. 60 fps at medium quality works for me. I rarely game, mostly just DC.

That came up in the thread about Nvidia's K/D "study." Some clown in there was saying how hardforum was declining because there weren't any enthusiasts who see the need for high end hardware like 240Hz+ gaming screens. I was thinking to myself, there's a lot of things computers can do other than play games...

Unless you remember trying to play online games via dial-up, or having to trick a broadband internet connection into thinking you were actually on a LAN, or remember using 3rd party apps to join servers (Gamespy)...get off my lawn :D.
 
Thanks guys. Good to know a 159.00 card would give me a lot better performance than my old 2012 card.

BTW, what is a good AMD/nVidia card under 200.00? Or is spending 200 a waste of money and I need to spend more?

I'm going to eventually upgrade my old monitor and I will probably do so with a 144hzmodel at 1080.

In that price range, are you dead set on buying new? Some people have a great aversion to buying used cards. Personally, I've never had an issue.

Used - GTX 1070(Ti) should be under $200 or a Vega 56.
New - I'd wait and see what the 5600 series brings or a 1650 Super. If you can throw out a little more, get a 1660 Super (or an EVGA B-stock 1660Ti...technically not new but with a 1 year warranty).
 
How much would I have to spend to get high settings to play well 1080 today, with at least a two year life span until the next card upgrade?

If I we're aiming for that metric I would aim for a card that does 1440p very well today.

Look at a vega 56 used for around $175-$200

Can also look at a 5700 non xt on sale in the $280 range.
 
Just curious, what CPU are you combining this with?

Also, probably the most important question, what games do you play?
 
It will output 144hz, yes.

Will it put out enough FPS to *maintain* 144hz? Not in most games without sacrificing a lot of quality.
 
This was early stages of my PCI Express riser card install on my 3700x and the Power Color Red Dragon RX 570 8Gb was my test mule .. I just love this little card



 
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Just curious, what CPU are you combining this with?

Also, probably the most important question, what games do you play?
Right now I am only going to play Mortal Online, Eve, and Mech Warrior Online.
 
I'm assuming that AMD's drivers are just one download now, even for old cards like my 7950, so just download the latest all in one drive?
 
Right now I am only going to play Mortal Online, Eve, and Mech Warrior Online.

Ah, so one thing you might want to check is how your prospective cards perform in each game. Some will favour AMD, some will favour Nvidia. It’s worthwhile to check reviews for games you actually play. Some review sites will post reviews with several titles so you can see the difference.
 
I'm assuming that AMD's drivers are just one download now, even for old cards like my 7950, so just download the latest all in one drive?

They have a common interface, just head to the website, select your card on the drop down menu, and you’re good to go.
 
They have a common interface, just head to the website, select your card on the drop down menu, and you’re good to go.
Did that last night, thanks. Don't know if I care for the driver interface. Why does everything have to look like a cell phone PlaySkool app these days?
 
Get something cheap and sufficient now (RX 580/590 8Gb which are super-cheap new meaning less than $200) and wait for Ampere coming april 2020. Even the low end of that line of graphics card from Nvidia will trounce anything high end now.
 
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What kind of FPS do you get if you lower it to High instead of Ultra?

I did two more videos with one being Ultra with lower FOV and here is High settings for you .. I remember Max was the highest settings once so your card didn't get slower as Ultra was just a step above it really in HD form .

I guess it was a 144Hz question , I say the eye candy is not bad ! I like eye candy above highest fps and 72Hz feels good to me .. my mouse pad is cloth and why it looks like that as it's not what you think it is..

 
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I did two more videos with one being Ultra with lower FOV and here is High settings for you .. I remember Max was the highest settings once so your card didn't get slower as Ultra was just a step above it really in HD form .


YEah taht's what I was looking for. 144+ for a 144hz monitor, thanks. BTW--Who in their right mind would drive an American Sherman into battle? LOL. Panzer, FTW.
 
Here is the other video .. I don't feel any better playing or faster on my 3700x / RX 5700 even if the frames are higher .

 
I with someone had the 7950 and could post a few videos of it's performance.
 
i just upgraded from this card last year. got many years of gaming out of it, so i remember quite a few titles that it can play well on medium - high settings(shadows/antialiasing off or low of course) and get 50-60 fps:

DOOM 2016
battlefield 5
battlefront 2
mechwarrior online
cs:go
lotr: shadow of war
vermintide 2
evil within 2
warhammer total war

thats about the limit for that card, but a lot of decent gaming was done.
 
i just upgraded from this card last year. got many years of gaming out of it, so i remember quite a few titles that it can play well on medium - high settings(shadows/antialiasing off or low of course) and get 50-60 fps:

DOOM 2016
battlefield 5
battlefront 2
mechwarrior online
cs:go
lotr: shadow of war
vermintide 2
evil within 2
warhammer total war

thats about the limit for that card, but a lot of decent gaming was done.

That card blew up MWO. That's why I actually got rid of my GTX295 dual GPU card back in 2012. MWO was no longer supporting the dual GPU feature, so I was effectively running on one 265 GPU (The 295 was said to be about the same as running two 265s in SLI mode, but utilizing each card equally). That and I wanted the upgraded DX graphics the 295 didn't support. It was still tearing it up. I can't remember what my FPS were with the 7950, but they were high. MWO isn't that graphics demanding. Thanks for posting.
 
That came up in the thread about Nvidia's K/D "study." Some clown in there was saying how hardforum was declining because there weren't any enthusiasts who see the need for high end hardware like 240Hz+ gaming screens. I was thinking to myself, there's a lot of things computers can do other than play games...

Unless you remember trying to play online games via dial-up, or having to trick a broadband internet connection into thinking you were actually on a LAN, or remember using 3rd party apps to join servers (Gamespy)...get off my lawn :D.

I remember playing MOHAA on dial up around 2003 and the wife in the background wanting to call her mommy .. LMAO = Hardcore Gaming = OG = WGCF = When gaming comes first .
 
I'm still comfortably running a 760gtx.. most will laugh, but as a 4gb card, with a powerful CPU behind it, it runs pretty well.
You could have an old i5 or a brand new i7 and it wouldn't make a lick of difference with that gpu. Heck in most cases even an old i3 would not be any sort of limitation with a GPU that old at 1080p.

Something like the GTX 1650 Super would literally be 2.5 times faster and I would consider that the minimum for newer demanding games at 1080p and 60+ fps.

Funny, the HD7950 and the GTX760 are essentially tied. According to Techpowerups GPU charts a 1650Super is twice as fast and the 1650 1.5X
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7950.c307
 
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