I think AMD has tweak some settings toward 7970.
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7970 with Freq/Mem as 1125/975| Driver | SDK | Performance |
| 12.3 | 2.6 | 660~666 |
| 12.4 | 2.7 | 655~661 |
That's what I was looking for. So even with a 7xxx series card the new version is still slower? Is this an SDK issue, or you think it's just that current kernels are not written for 2.7?