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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