Hd7970 ghz edition: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Specs

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Three months ago NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 680 to rave reviews and a boatload of editor recommendations, reclaiming their crown for the fastest single-GPU video card in the process. And for the first time in many years NVIDIA didn’t just beat AMD on raw performance, but they achieved the complete holy trifecta of video card competition – higher gaming performance, lower power consumption, and a lower price.

Consequently, for AMD this launch marked both the closest and the farthest they’ve ever been from outright beating NVIDIA in modern times. On the one hand NVIDIA beat them by more than usual by achieving the holy trifecta as opposed to focusing just on performance. And yet on the other hand when it comes to raw performance AMD has never been this close. Where the GTX 580 beat the 6970 by 15% the GTX 680 led by just 10%, and even then it lost to the 7970 on some games. With such a close gap an obvious question arises: maybe, just maybe AMD could meet or beat NVIDIA with a higher clocked 7970 and rival them for the performance crown?

Today AMD is putting that idea to the test with the launch of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Although AMD is not calling the 7970 GHz Edition a response to the GTX 680 – instead choosing to focus on it being Tahiti’s 6 month birthday – for all intents and purposes this is AMD’s response to the GTX 680. A higher clocked 7970 with AMD’s take on GPU turbo intended to make a run at the GTX 680 and that performance crown. So how does AMD fare? As we’ll see, after today it will no longer be clear who holds the performance crown.

AMD GPU Specification Comparison
	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	AMD Radeon HD 7970	AMD Radeon HD 7950	AMD Radeon HD 6970
Stream Processors	2048	2048	1792	1536
Texture Units	128	128	112	96
ROPs	32	32	32	32
Core Clock	1000MHz	925MHz	800MHz	880MHz
Boost Clock	1050MHz	N/A	N/A	N/A
Memory Clock	6GHz GDDR5	5. 5GHz GDDR5	5GHz GDDR5	5.5GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit
VRAM	3GB	3GB	3GB	2GB
FP64	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/4
Transistor Count	4. 31B	4.31B	4.31B	2.64B
PowerTune Limit	250W+	250W	200W	250W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 40nm
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	VLIW4
Launch Date	06/22/2012	01/09/2012	01/31/2012	12/15/2010
Launch Price	$499	$549	$449	$350

As far as performance and functionality goes, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (7970GE) is a rather straightforward upgrade to the existing Radeon HD 7970. In fact the hardware is absolutely identical right down to the GPU – there have been no changes to the PCB, the cooling, or the VRMs, and even the Tahiti GPU is the same revision that has been shipping in the 7970 since the beginning. Everything the 7970GE adds to the 7970 is accomplished through chip binning and new Catalyst and BIOS features specific to the 7970GE. So in many ways this is the 7970 we’ve already become familiar with, but with more pep in its step.

With identical hardware the real difference is in clockspeeds. The 7970 shipped at a rather conservative 925MHz core, which as we’ve seen in our 7970 overclocking adventures ends up being a good 175MHz less than what our worst 7970 can hit while overclocked without overvolting. At the time AMD left a lot on the table in order to maximize yields and to give their partners headroom to launch a range of factory overclocked cards, and now AMD has come to take that headroom back for themselves.

The 7970GE will ship at 1GHz, 75MHz faster than the 7970. Furthermore the 7970GE introduces AMD’s PowerTune Technology with Boost, which is AMD’s name for GPU turbo, and similar to the GPU turbo feature that is already on AMD’s APUs. The 7970GE can boost a further 50MHz up to 1050MHz, which means the 7970GE’s core clock increase is anywhere between 8% and 13.5% depending on how high it can go under a specific workload. We’ve seen that AMD’s performance scales very well with clockspeeds – which is to say it’s typically not memory bandwidth bottlenecked – so this bodes well for its performance. All the same AMD has also boosted their memory clocks from 5.5GHz to 6GHz, which will give the card 9% more memory bandwidth when it needs it. AMD hasn’t provided any specific guidance for performance, but overall you can expect around 10% better performance over the 7970 in GPU-bound situations, which is exactly what AMD needs to close the GTX 680 gap.

Beyond the higher clockspeeds and introduction of PowerTune Technology with Boost, that sums up the changes for the 7970GE. There are no board changes and it’s the same Tahiti GPU, meaning 2048 stream processors paired with 128 texture units and 32 ROPs, all on a 4.31B transistor GPU with a die size of 365mm2. With the increase in clockspeed from 7970 this pushes AMD’s theoretical double precision (FP64) compute performance over 1 TFLOPs to 1.08 TFLOPs, which AMD is in no way shy about mentioning since they’re the first GPU vendor to get there. On the memory side of things, AMD is using the same 3GB of GDDR5 we’ve previously seen, just clocked higher.

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On that note, because AMD hasn’t made any hardware changes for the 7970GE the 7970GE’s TDP/PowerTune limit is equally unchanged. The 7970GE will have a PowerTune limit of 250W, identical to that of the 7970. With 6 months between the launch of the 7970 and the 7970GE, that’s 6 months of 28nm process improvements over at TSMC, which AMD will be using as the basis of their binning for the 7970GE. With that said there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and in practice the 7970GE’s power consumption has still increased relative to the 7970, as we’ll see in our benchmarks.

On a final point, at this point we would be remiss to not point out that once again AMD has once again added confusion to their product naming system in the name of simplicity. We have always pushed for clear naming schemes where parts with different specifications have different names and for good reason. AMD’s decision to name their new card the 7970 GHz Edition is unfortunate; while it’s true it has the same Tahiti GPU its performance and feature set (PowerTune Boost) are entirely different from the 7970. What’s the point of a 4 digit number if AMD is only ever going to use a fraction of them? In a rational universe this card would be the 7975 and that would be the end of that.

Our primary concern here is that a potential customer is going to read this review and then go out and buy a vanilla 7970 thinking they got the GHz Edition, which is the kind of misleading situation we want product names to avoid. At this point if AMD is going to continue producing multiple products under the name model number – and I can’t believe I’m saying this – they need to bring back proper suffixes. They were less sufferable than “GHz Edition”, which is just long enough to be ignored. At the end of the day clockspeed is not a proper product name.

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Anyhow, with clocks and hardware settled, let’s talk about competitive positioning, pricing, and availability. As we alluded to in the introduction, the 7970GE is a clear swipe at the GeForce GTX 680. NVIDIA had a smaller than usual 10% lead with the GTX 680, and as a result AMD is making a run at it with a higher clocked Tahiti part. Realistically speaking, on average AMD can’t beat the GTX 680 with the 7970GE, but with good performance scaling they can tie.

Seeing as how it’s a GTX 680 competitor then, it should come as no surprise that AMD has put the MSRP on the 7970GE at $499, the exact same price as the GTX 680. It’s a slugfest for sure. At the same time it’s no secret that Tahiti cards are relatively expensive to manufacture – thanks to the larger-than-GK104 GPU and 3GB of GDDR5 – so AMD is keen on not just challenging NVIDIA for the crown but also bringing their margins back up to where they were prior to the GTX 680’s launch.

While the price of the 7970 and 7950 aren’t officially changing in the wake of the 7970GE’s launch, the launch of the GTX 600 series has already pushed pricing down to levels below even AMD’s April MSRPs. Reference clocked 7970s are down to around $430 after rebate, and the 7950 (having been pushed out of the picture by the GTX 670) is down to about $360 after rebate. Barring a move from NVIDIA, we expect AMD’s stack to settle here for the time being. As an aside, it looks like AMD will be continuing their Three For Free promotion for their existing 7900 series cards for some time to come, but they will not be extending it to the 7970GE. So while the 7970 will come with free games the 7970GE will not, which is going to further affect the value difference between the two cards.

Finally, while general card availability should be good – we’ve already seen that most 7970s can overclock to 7970GE speeds – AMD has pushed the launch out in front of when cards will actually ship. The 7970GE will not appear in stores until next week and widespread availability isn’t expected until July. But once cards do start flowing we don’t see any reason that AMD won’t be able to keep them in stock.

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• 50W lower TDP?
  250Wvs300W
• 20W lower power consumption while under peak load?
  360Wvs380W

Why is AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition better than AMD Radeon HD 7970?

• 75MHz faster GPU clock speed?
  1000MHzvs925MHz
• 0. 31 TFLOPS higher floating-point performance?
  4.1 TFLOPSvs3.79 TFLOPS
• 2.4 GPixel/s higher pixel rate?
  32 GPixel/svs29.6 GPixel/s
• 125MHz faster memory clock speed?
  1500MHzvs1375MHz
• 500MHz higher effective memory clock speed?
  6000MHzvs5500MHz
• 10 GTexels/s higher texture rate?
  128 GTexels/svs118 GTexels/s
• 24GB/s more memory bandwidth?
  288GB/svs264GB/s
• 10°C lower load GPU temperature?
  62°Cvs72°C

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Performance

GPU clock speed

925MHz

1000MHz

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has a higher clock speed.

GPU turbo

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1050MHz

When the GPU is running below its limitations, it can boost to a higher clock speed in order to give increased performance.

pixel rate

29.6 GPixel/s

32 GPixel/s

The number of pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.

floating-point performance

3.79 TFLOPS

4.1 TFLOPS

Floating-point performance is a measurement of the raw processing power of the GPU.

texture rate

118 GTexels/s

128 GTexels/s

The number of textured pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.

GPU memory speed

1375MHz

1500MHz

The memory clock speed is one aspect that determines the memory bandwidth.

shading units

Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors within the graphics card that are responsible for processing different aspects of the image.

texture mapping units (TMUs)

TMUs take textures and map them to the geometry of a 3D scene. More TMUs will typically mean that texture information is processed faster.

render output units (ROPs)

The ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, writing the final pixel data to memory and carrying out other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the look of graphics.

Memory

effective memory speed

5500MHz

6000MHz

The effective memory clock speed is calculated from the size and data rate of the memory. Higher clock speeds can give increased performance in games and other apps.

maximum memory bandwidth

264GB/s

288GB/s

This is the maximum rate that data can be read from or stored into memory.

VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of a graphics card. More VRAM generally allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.

GDDR version

Newer versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher transfer rates that give increased performance.

memory bus width

384bit

384bit

A wider bus width means that it can carry more data per cycle. It is an important factor of memory performance, and therefore the general performance of the graphics card.

Supports ECC memory

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Error-correcting code memory can detect and correct data corruption. It is used when is it essential to avoid corruption, such as scientific computing or when running a server.

Features

DirectX version

DirectX is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.

OpenGL version

OpenGL is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.

OpenCL version

Some apps use OpenCL to apply the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions introduce more functionality and better performance.

Supports multi-display technology

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

The graphics card supports multi-display technology. This allows you to configure multiple monitors in order to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as having a wider field of view.

load GPU temperature

A lower load temperature means that the card produces less heat and its cooling system performs better.

supports ray tracing

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.

Supports 3D

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D display and glasses).

supports DLSS

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an upscaling technology powered by AI. It allows the graphics card to render games at a lower resolution and upscale them to a higher resolution with near-native visual quality and increased performance. DLSS is only available on select games.

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This benchmark measures the graphics performance of a video card. Source: PassMark.

Ports

has an HDMI output

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Devices with a HDMI or mini HDMI port can transfer high definition video and audio to a display.

HDMI ports

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More HDMI ports mean that you can simultaneously connect numerous devices, such as video game consoles and set-top boxes.

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Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, which allows for higher resolutions and frame rates.

DisplayPort outputs

Allows you to connect to a display using DisplayPort.

DVI outputs

Allows you to connect to a display using DVI.

mini DisplayPort outputs

Allows you to connect to a display using mini-DisplayPort.

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AMD was the first to transfer its GPUs to the norms of the 28-nm process technology. The announcement of the Radeon HD 7970 video cards took place at the end of 2011, and in the third quarter of 2012, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition entered the market. Between themselves, they differ only in the clock frequencies of the graphics processor and video memory.

The HD 7970 is a legend for a reason. It marked the transition to a thinner process technology and a completely new GCN microarchitecture, which was replaced by 7nm RDNA only in the middle of this year.

GCN was AMD’s first universal architecture, which it successfully used to create mainstream gaming graphics cards and general-purpose graphics accelerators. This was made possible by the introduction of vector and scalar blocks, as well as a scheduler, into each CU.

In addition, the cache size has increased and the memory bus has increased, the work of the tessellation unit has improved, support for asynchronous shaders has been added and an engine for encoding video, and later audio. AMD paid a lot of attention to the issue of power consumption and energy saving, but nevertheless, the flagship video card turned out to be hot and voracious.

But it is still supported at the driver level!

From the 2012 test, we still have the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition video card. The base frequency of its GPU has just reached 1 GHz, and the dynamic speed is 50 MHz higher. The 3 GB GDDR5 memory operates at an effective 6 GHz frequency, which provides 288 GB / s bandwidth with a 384-bit bus.

The reference design of the cooler turned out to be not very successful. It includes an evaporation chamber, an aluminum radiator and one turbine-type fan. In automatic mode, the temperature of the GPU reached 86°C, and the speed of the turntable was in the region of 3000 rpm. That is, the reference turned out to be noisy and hot, although there was no throttling.

The following stand was used for testing:

• Intel Core i7-7740X
• Thermaltake Water 3. 0 Riing RGB 240
• ASUS TUF X299 MARK 1
• 4 x 4GB DDR4-2400 Apacer
• Apacer PANTHER AS330 240 GB / 960 GB
• Seagate ST2000DX001 2TB
• Seasonic Snow Silent 1050 1050W
• Thermaltake Core P3
• AOC U2879VF

An external system with AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K was used to record gameplay in Full HD resolution, that is, without loss of performance.

Let’s move on to the tests. To warm up the system, let’s start with the simplest projects. DOTA 2 can be run at maximum graphics settings. Perhaps in the final clashes of several heroes with many effects, friezes or stators will appear, but in a battle with two opponents, they did not feel any problems. The average speed has risen to 150 fps.

World of Tanks at ultra settings on some cards requires more than 2 GB of VRAM, so a 3 GB buffer is extremely useful. However, even on simpler cards, very rare events drop below 24 fps. We didn’t feel it in the game, but stators are possible.

To avoid them, go to the high profile. There is no longer even a hint of any friezes or drawdowns. And fully predictable control allows you to control the tank as accurately and quickly as possible and fire to kill. For ourselves, we would choose this mode.

War Thunder with the Kino profile scares you with incomprehensible stators. And if you go to a high preset, then everything becomes smooth, clear and pleasant. True, at the exit from the sniper scope, the 0.1% Low indicator constantly sags, but this is not felt in the gameplay.

With ARK Survival Evolved never just happens. After several attempts, I put all the settings on the average level and reduced the level of detail, the quality of the sky, the density and detail of the earth. In this mode, the average speed rises to around 40 FPS, but the gameplay experience is spoiled by periodic microfreezes.

The settings in RUST were selected by scientific typing, and on the Nth attempt, we managed to achieve an acceptable balance between picture quality, video sequence speed and the absence of friezes. The game is installed on the HDD, but there were no stators even with active data loading. Confused only by the large consumption of RAM in the region of 11 GB.

In the popular freeware Warframe , we chose a high graphics preset — this is the maximum available profile. They did not change anything, since there were no complaints about either the picture or the speed indicators anyway.

CS:GO Danger Zone at low settings will not create any problems for the test system at all, so we asked the engine to choose the parameters on its own, and it stopped at high ones. There were no complaints about this choice: the average speed rose to around 100 frames / s, and only very rare events dropped to 40, but this is not critical.

At medium settings, the Quake Champions engine decided to reduce the draw scale to 66%, but we manually raised it to 100%. The average speed was kept above 100 FPS. Other statistics are not far behind. The controls were very comfortable, and the opponents were weak, so we managed to shoot 18 frags in the test recording.

Automatic Overwatch offered a high preset with a frame rate of around 100 FPS. Therefore, we took the risk of choosing an ultra profile for recording, and were not disappointed. The video sequence remained smooth and stable, and the controls allowed you to methodically shoot enemies. The gameplay gave only pleasant emotions.

With PUBG this does not work. For Full HD, it’s best to drop all the way down to low settings to indulge in consistently high average speeds. The quality of the graphics is poor, the statistics of very rare events balance on the verge of psychological comfort, but without friezes and stators.

You can play Fortnite without freezes on high graphics settings. There is enough video memory with a margin, and more than 5 GB is taken from the RAM. Only the rate of very rare events in the region of 30 frames / s is alarming. If you are afraid of stators, then you can immediately go to the middle profile.

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Why AMD Radeon HD 79Is the 70 GHz Edition better than the others?

• Memory bus width?
  384bit vs 252.57bit
• GPU temperature at boot?
  62°C vs 73.04°C
• 3DMark Vantage Texture Fill result?
  120.6GTexels/s vs 90.02GTexels/s
• 3DMark Vantage Pixel Fill result?
  13.9GPixel/s vs 10.98GPixel/s
• Noise level at full load?
  44. 8dB vs 47.58dB
• Monitor support?
  6 vs 3.96
• DVI outputs?
  1 vs 0.73
• Multi-GPU?
  4 vs 2.73

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Performance

GPU Clock Speed ​​

1000MHz

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has a higher clock speed.

Turbo GPU

1050MHz

When the GPU is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance.

pixel rate

32 GPixel/s

The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

FLOPS

4.1 TFLOPS

FLOPS is a measure of GPU processing power.

texture size

128 GTexels/s

The number of textured pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

GPU memory speed

1500MHz

Memory speed is one aspect that determines memory bandwidth.

Shading patterns

Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors in a graphics card that are responsible for processing various aspects of an image.

textured units (TMUs)

TMUs accept textured units and bind them to the geometric layout of the 3D scene. More TMUs generally means texture information is processed faster.

ROPs

ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, such as writing the final pixel data to memory and for performing other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the appearance of graphics.

Memory

effective memory speed

6000MHz

The effective memory clock is calculated from the size and data transfer rate of the memory. A higher clock speed can give better performance in games and other applications.

maximum memory bandwidth

288GB/s

This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.

VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of the graphics card. More VRAM usually allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.

GDDR versions of

Later versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher data transfer rates, which improve performance.

memory bus width

384bit

A wider memory bus means it can carry more data per cycle. This is an important factor in memory performance, and therefore the overall performance of the graphics card.

Supports memory recovery code

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Memory troubleshooting code can detect and fix data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server.

Features

DirectX version

DirectX is used in games with a new version that supports better graphics.

OpenGL version

The newer the OpenGL version, the better graphics quality in games.

OpenCL version

Some applications use OpenCL to use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions are more functional and better quality.

Supports multi-monitor technology

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

The video card has the ability to connect multiple displays. This allows you to set up multiple monitors at the same time to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as a wider field of view.

GPU temperature at boot

Lower boot temperature — this means that the card generates less heat and the cooling system works better.

supports ray tracing

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections in games.

Supports 3D

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D screen and glasses).

supports DLSS

✖AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI based scaling technology. This allows the graphics card to render games at lower resolutions and upscale them to higher resolutions with near-native visual quality and improved performance. DLSS is only available in some games.

PassMark (G3D) result

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This test measures the graphics performance of a graphics card. Source: Pass Mark.

Ports

has HDMI output

✔AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Devices with HDMI or mini HDMI ports can stream HD video and audio to an attached display.

HDMI connectors

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More HDMI connections allow you to connect multiple devices at the same time, such as game consoles and TVs.

HDMI version

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Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, resulting in higher resolutions and frame rates.