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MSI Radeon HD 5970 (part number R5970-P2D2G) is a desktop Graphics Processing Unit, based on ATI Radeon HD 5970, and manufactured on 40 nm technological process. The GPU was launched in November 2009. The cards graphics frequency is 725 MHz. Furthermore, it has 3200 stream processors, 64 color ROPs, along with 160 texture units. The Radeon HD 5970 incorporates 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. Because the memory operates at 1 GHz, and uses 256 bit bus, the effective memory bandwidth is 256 GB/s. The GPU supports PCI Express 2.1 interface, and requires 2 motherboard slots. This model uses up to 294 Watt of power. To increase MSI Radeon HD 5970 3D graphics and gaming performance, it can be paired with another graphics card in crossfire mode.
More detailed specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 5970 GPU are available below.