AMD Radeon HD 7970

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 is a high-end graphics card for desktop PCs It is based on the Tahiti core. It was the first GPU that was produced in 28nm and supports DirectX 11.1. The 7970 offers 2048 shader cores (1D) of the GCN architecture (first generation) and 128 texture units.

The performance of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is clearly better than the mobile Radeon HD 7970M (which is based on the Pitcairn with only 1280 shaders). Compared to the GeFore GTX 680, the 7970 is about 8% slower. Therefore, AMD later introduced a 7970 GHz Edition that was clocked at 1000 MHz and performed on the same level as the GeForce GTX 680.

Thanks to Eyefinity up to 6 monitors can be connected to the 7970. The integrated UVD Video-Decoder is able to decode H.264, VC-1 MPEG-2, MVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid) and Adobe Flash videos.

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 is rated with a TDP of 250 Watt.

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon HD 7900 Series

Radeon HD 7970

2048 @ 925 MHz

384 Bit @ 5500 MHz

Codename

Tahiti XT

Architecture

GCN

Pipelines

2048 - unified

Core Speed *

925 MHz

Memory Speed *

5500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

384 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

3072 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1

Power Consumption

250 Watt

Transistors

4310 Million

technology

28 nm

Features

Eyefinity, HD3D, CrossFire

Date of Announcement

22.12.2011

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/g...

* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

100%

min: 6862 avg: 6862 (17%) median: 6862 (17%) max: 6862 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

100%

min: 5880 avg: 5880 (25%) median: 5880 (25%) max: 5880 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

100%

min: 43795 avg: 43795 (27%) median: 43795 (27%) max: 43795 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

100%

min: 14233 avg: 14233 (29%) median: 14233 (29%) max: 14233 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

100%

min: 234474 avg: 234474 (31%) median: 234474 (31%) max: 234474 Points

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

100%

min: 77.8 avg: 77.8 (29%) median: 77.8 (29%) max: 77.8 fps

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

100%

min: 7770 avg: 7770 (15%) median: 7770 (15%) max: 7770 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X -12%

AMD Radeon R9 M390 -12%

NVIDIA Quadro K5100M -11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI -9%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M -8%

NVIDIA Quadro M2200 -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) 0%

AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M SLI 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2%

NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 8%

AMD Radeon R7 370 10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M 10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) 10%

...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop) 467%

100%

3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

100%

min: 7323 avg: 7323 (26%) median: 7323 (26%) max: 7323 points

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3DMark Vantage
P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

P Result 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 29520 avg: 29520 (63%) median: 29520 (63%) max: 29520 Points

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3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 106667 avg: 106667 (59%) median: 106667 (59%) max: 106667 Points

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

100%

min: 101.7 avg: 101.7 (45%) median: 101.7 (45%) max: 101.7 fps

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Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Windows 7 Experience Index - Gaming graphics

100%

min: 7.9 avg: 7.9 (100%) median: 7.9 (100%) max: 7.9 points

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Graphics

100%

min: 7.9 avg: 7.9 (100%) median: 7.9 (100%) max: 7.9 points

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.