Graphics card at the end of the year

Today the 22nd of December 2011 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled its newest graphics card with the name of Radeon HD 7970. AMD claims, HD performance 7970 work 30% faster than its predecessor, Radeon HD 6970 so capable of displaying high-quality graphics.

For specs, HD 7970 artificial AMD uses 7970 2048 Processors Stream, 32 Units, and ROP 128 Texture Units. The Chip used is Tahiti XT GPU with fabrication of TSMC 28nm.

With 3GB GDDR5 memory, 38-bit memory bandwidth and speed of 5Gbps. HD 7970 GPU clock of 925 MHz is for. However, the GPU clock can be upgraded or overclocked performance up to 1GHz.

Display connector consists of a single HD 7970 connectors DVI and HDMI, as well as two Mini-Display connector Port. HD 7970 consumes less than 300 Watts of power when it is in the position of the load. If it is in the idle position, only consume less than 3 Watts of power.

From the design side, division radeon graphics amd make a coolant the dual slot with type a fan blower. A slot the air out also made greater compared with graphics card amd earlier generations. To color, HD 7970 this looks truculent because dominated by red and black

(source:ZDNet)