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
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	no
DirectX	DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
Transistor Count	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...

Benchmarks

3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

14233 Points (23%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

43795 Points (24%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

5880 Points (22%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

6862 Points (17%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

234474 Points (31%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

7323 points (21%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

7770 points (15%)

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3DMark Vantage
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3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

106667 Points (56%)

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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

29520 Points (56%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

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

77.8 fps (29%)

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

101.7 fps (43%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Gaming graphics

7.9 points (113%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Graphics

7.9 points (113%)

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Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

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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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.