VisionTek’s HD 7970 still brings solid value to gaming
The VisionTek HD 7970
The VisionTek HD 7970 is a basic reference version with its differentiation from other reference cards being the VisionTek sticker, the company that stands behind it with a lifetime warranty, and excellent customer service and technical support should you need it.
There is nothing fancy to see from the outside of the box. The card arrives in a large VisionTek box that advertises the card without its specifications on its outside. It emphasizes 3GB of GDDR5 memory and mentions VisionTek’s lifetime warranty, and 7.1 HDMI audio. VisionTek offers a lifetime warranty to the original purchaser provided that they register their new HD 7970 within 30 days of purchase, otherwise it is one year.
The back of the VisionTek box goes into more detail about support for Eyefinity’s 4 concurrent displays with the card’s connectors and we see the key features of the card highlighted:
The VisionTek HD 7970 video card comes well-protected by padding and from static electricity. 
Inside the box, besides the new Radeon, we find a driver CD, manual, DVI to HDMI adapter, DVI to VGA connector, and a Molex to 6-Pin PCI-E power connector as well as a 8-pin Molex adapter.
The HD 7970 reference version has a good looking design and it uses a blower-type fan for exhausting hot air out of the PC and is often chosen for CrossFire setups. 
There is one dual-link DVI, one HDMI 1.4, and two DisplayPort 1.1a connectors available to easily connect to 4 displays and use them simultaneously.
The HD 7970 is setup for pairing with another HD 7970 (or even HD 7950) with a CrossFire bridge which is not included. Just like with Nvidia cards, you can mix cards from different vendors with different clock speeds, and in addition, unlike with Nvidia cards, there is much more flexibility to mix cards with different amounts of cores and different framebuffers. As we turn the card over, we can see the CrossFire connectors on the bottom as well as the 6-pin+8-pin connectors for the PCIe cables.
Let’s check out the VisionTek HD 7970 specifications from their website:
Specifications
We can’t wait to test out our new card, but before we begin the testing, head over to our testing configuration.
