Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Overview
Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is a graphics card released by AMD on 22 Jun 2012. The graphics card houses the Tahiti die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 4,313 million transistors on a 28 nm, 352 mm2 die.
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition pros and cons |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports Mantle |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB | GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon R9 380X |
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Shader units | 2048 | 768 | 768 | 640 | 2048 |
ROPs | 32 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
Graphics processor | Tahiti | GP107 | GP107 | GP107 | Antigua |
Process size | 28 nm | 14 nm | 14 nm | 14 nm | 28 nm |
Memory | 3072 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective) | 3072 Mb GDDR5 (1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR5 (1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR5 (1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective) |
Memory bus width | 384 bit | 96 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit |
Memory bandwidth | 288.00 Gb/s | 84.10 Gb/s | 112.10 Gb/s | 112.10 Gb/s | 182.40 Gb/s |
Release date | 22 Jun 2012 | 21 May 2018 | 25 Oct 2016 | 25 Oct 2016 | 19 Nov 2015 |
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