AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GCN 1.0 (Tahiti XT)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
2048
Shader Cores
32
ROPs
128
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
3 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
288 GB/s
Bandwidth
250 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Jun 22, 2012 | Price at Launch: | $499 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | GCN 1.0 (Tahiti XT) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 7000 series | Product Tier: | High-end |
| VRAM Capacity: | 3 GB | Total Board Power: | 250 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 2048 | TMUs: | 128 |
| ROPs: | 32 | L2 Cache: | 768 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 3 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 6 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 384-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 288 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 1 GHz | Boost Clock: | 1.05 GHz |
| FP32 Throughput: | 4.30 TFLOPs | Ray Tracing: | No |
| Process Size: | 28nm | Process Name: | TSMC 28nm |
| Die Size: | 352 mm² | ||
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 250 W | Power Connectors: | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 3.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.4a |
| DisplayPort Support: | DP 1.2 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 6 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 12 | Shader Model: | 6.5 |
| Vulkan Version: | 1.2 | OpenGL Version: | 4.6 |
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