AMD · GCN 1 · 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Tahiti XT2) — 6 GB
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Tahiti XT2) — 6 GB: 6 GB GDDR5, 250 W, 2,048 Stream processors. Launched June 2012 at $500.
- Memory
- 6 GB
- Power
- 250 W
- Bus width
- 384 bit
Memory6 GB
1 of 183 in Radeon HD
Power250 W
5 of 157 by higher draw in Radeon HD
Stream processors2,048
1 of 179 in Radeon HD
Launch price$500
6 of 75 in Radeon HD
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 6 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 384 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,500 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
Compute
- Stream processors
- 2,048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- FP32
- 4,300.8 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 1,075 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 32 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 128 GT/s
Board
- TDP
- 250 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 ×16
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 500 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- GCN 1
- Process
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 4.313 billion
- Die size
- 352 mm²
- Series
- Radeon HD
- Launch date
- June 2012
Not recorded by the source: generation, codename, sm count and base clock, or 2 further fields.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Tahiti XT2) ranks third of 121 for FP32 throughput and first of 183 for memory capacity. Its 250 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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