AMD Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card
Specifications
- Generation
- Southern Islands
- GPU model
- Tahiti
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- GPU clock
- 925 MHz
- Memory size
- 3 GB
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- Release date
- Dec 22nd, 2011
Graphics Processor
- GPU model
- Tahiti
- GPU variant
- Tahiti XT (215-0821060)
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Manufacturing process
- 28 nm
- Number of transistors
- 4,313 million
- Die size
- 352 mm²
Graphics Card
- Release date
- Dec 22nd, 2011
- Generation
- Southern Islands
- Production
- End-of-life
- Launch price
- 549 USD
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Reviews
- 191 in our database
- gpu.details.availability
- Jan 9th, 2012
- Predecessor
- Northern Islands
- Successor
- Sea Islands
Clocks
- GPU clock
- 925 MHz
- Memory clock
- 1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective
Memory Configuration
- Memory size
- 3 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Memory bus width
- 384 bit
- Bandwidth
- 264.0 GB/s
Render Configuration
- Shading units
- 2048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute units
- 32
- Cache L1
- 16 KB (per CU)
- Cache L2
- 768 KB
Performance
- Pixel rate
- 29.60 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 118.4 GTexel/s
- FP32 (float) performance
- 3.789 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
- 947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Dimensions & Outputs
- Slot width
- Dual-slot
- Length
- 275 mm 10.8 inches
- Width
- 111 mm 4.4 inches
- Height
- 38 mm 1.5 inches
- TDP
- 250 W
- Suggested PSU
- 600 W
- Outputs
- 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Board number
- C386-37
API Support & Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader model
- 5.1
Drivers
Looking for Radeon HD 7970 driver download? We recommend Driver Booster program that can find, install, and keep up to date all drivers on Windows 10, 8.1, and 7 in one click!
Benchmark & Performance
PassMark
1 5247 38546
Performance Comparing to Similar Graphics Cards
Compare
Gaming
To see if AMD Radeon HD 7970 is good for gaming, we checked what popular, new, and upcoming PC games will run on it:
