AMD Lays Claim to "Graphics Crown" with Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Posted 06/22/2012 | by Paul Lilly




If you've been following the PC scene for awhile, you may recall Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) beating Intel to the punch (if only by a hair) in getting a 1GHz CPU (an Athlon "Thunderbird") into the hands of consumers back in 2000. Here we are more than a decade later and AMD's still talking up its 1GHz achievements, only this time those bragging rights are related ot its GPUs, the newest one being the just launched Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card built around the company's Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.

Clocks are faster all around on the GHz Edition card version compared to the "vanilla" Radeon HD 7970, if we can call it vanilla. The GPU cruises along at 1GHz, obviously (and up to 1.05GHz with boost), but the memory's also been goosed to 1500MHz. Clockspeeds on the original card are up to 925MHz (GPU) and 1375MHz (memory).

The result of these higher clockspeeds is improved performance across the board. AMD's Radeon 7970 GHz Edition card boasts 288GB/s of memory bandwidth, 4.3 TFLOPS single precision compute power, and 1.01 TFLOPS double precision computer power. All three are increased over the non-GHz Edition counterpart, which features 264GB/s memory bandwidth, and 3.79 TFLOPS and 947 GFLOPS of single and double precision computer power, respectively.

Look for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card to be available next week for $500.

Image Credit: AMD

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