Radeon HD 7950 Thermal Ubuntu Thermal monitoring with an AMD Radeon HD 7950 for a future article on Phoronix.com. Benchmarking under Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Catalyst Linux driver. Radeon HD 6950: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900 2048MB (800/1250MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.95.3 Catalyst 12.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11554, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Radeon HD 7950: Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7900 3072MB (900/1375MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: fglrx 8.95.3 Catalyst 12.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11554, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Unigine Heaven 3.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Radeon HD 6950 . 29.73 |=================================== Radeon HD 7950 . 47.10 |======================================================= Unigine Heaven 3.0 CPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Radeon HD 6950 . MIN: 53.0 AVG: 64.6 MAX: 71.0 Radeon HD 7950 . MIN: 51.0 AVG: 60.2 MAX: 66.0 Unigine Heaven 3.0 GPU Temperature Monitor Celsius < Lower Is Better Radeon HD 6950 . MIN: 45 AVG: 72 MAX: 76 Radeon HD 7950 . MIN: 48 AVG: 76 MAX: 81