AMD Radeon HD 7970 Specification

    Specification

    Manufacturer:AMD

    Specs status:Official

    Series: Radeon HD 7000

    GPU Model: Tahiti XT

    Release Date: 1-9-2012

    Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16

    Core Clock: 925 MHz

    Memory Clock: 1375 MHz (5.5GHz)

    Memory Bandwidth: 264 GB/sec

    Shader OperAMDons: ? MOperAMDons/sec

    Pixel Fill Rate: 26.9 GPixels/sec

    Texture Fill Rate: 118.4 GTexels/sec

    Vertex OperAMDons: ? MVertices/sec

    Details

    Max Power Draw: 250 W

    Noise Level: Loud

    Memory Size: 3072 MB

    Memory Type: GDDR5

    Memory Bus Type: 384 bit

    DirectX: 11.0

    OpenGL: 4.0

    PS/VS Version: 5.0/5.0

    Process: 28 nm

    Fragment Pipelines: 2048

    Vertex Pipelines: 0

    Texture Units: 128

    Raster: 32

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