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ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II

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Graphics Processor

GPU Name: Tahiti XT
Process Size: 28 nm
Transistors: 4,313 million
Die Size: 365 mm²

Graphics Card

Released: Dec 22nd, 2011
Jan 2nd, 2012
Production Status: Active
Bus Interface: PCIe 3.0 x16
ASUS Part #: HD7970-DC2-3GD5

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock: 925 MHz
Memory Clock: 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective

Memory

Memory Size: 3072 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus: 384 bit
Bandwidth: 264 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units: 2048
TMUs: 128
ROPs: 32
Compute Units: 32
Pixel Rate: 29.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate: 118 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance: 3,789 GFLOPS

Reference Board

Slot Width: Dual-slot
Triple-slot
Length: 10.8 inches
11 inches
274 mm
279 mm
TDP: 250 W
Outputs: 1x DVI
1x HDMI
2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI
4x DisplayPort

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.1
OpenGL: 4.2
OpenCL: 1.2
Shader Model: 5.0

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Reviews

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Card Notes

Retail availability - January 9, 2012

Exact Transistor Count: 4,312,711,873

128 Z/Stencil ROP Units

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