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by techPowerUp! (Jun, 2012)The core of the HD 7970 GHz Edition is clocked as high as 1000 MHz, with a Boost frequency of 1050 MHz; while the memory is upped to 1500 MHz (actual) or 6.00 GHz (GDDR5 effective), resulting in a staggering 288 GB/s bandwidth thanks to the 384-bit wide memory interface.
by techPowerUp! (May, 2012)VTX3D's HD 7970 X-Edition is a highly overclocked HD 7970 using a custom dual fan cooler and a large clock increase to 1050 MHz GPU and 1425 MHz memory.
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Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Tahiti XT |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 925 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 2,048 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 128 |
| Render output processors | 32 |
| Compute units | 32 |
| Pixel rate | 29.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 3,789 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,375 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 5,500 MHz |
| Memory bus | 384 bit |
| Memory | 3,072 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 264 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 250W |
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| Idle noise level | 40.2 dB |
| Load noise level | 55.2 dB |
| Idle power consumption | 113W |
| Load power consumption | 391W |
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