AMD Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card

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Learn more about AMD Radeon HD 7970:

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

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