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Radeon HD 7970 / R7970-2PMD3G5

Specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 GPU


Introduced in January 2012, MSI Radeon HD 7970 (part number R7970-2PMD3G5) desktop Graphics Processing Unit is based on AMD Radeon HD 7970, and built on 28 nm technological process. The cards graphics frequency is 925 MHz. It also has 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units, along with 32 color ROPs. The Radeon HD 7970 incorporates 3 GB of GDDR5 memory. Because the memory operates at 1.375 GHz, and utilizes 384 bit bus, the effective memory bandwidth is 264 GB/s. The GPU supports PCI Express 3.0 interface, and requires 2 slots on the motherboard. The maximum power draw of this model is 250 Watt, same as on the reference design.

More detailed specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 graphics card are available below.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:MSI
Model:Radeon HD 7970
Part number:R7970-2PMD3G5
Based on:AMD Radeon HD 7970 [Compare]
Target market segment:Desktop
Die name:Tahiti XT
Architecture:Graphics Core Next
Fabrication process:28 nm
Transistors:4.31 billion
Bus interface:PCI-E 3.0 x 16
Launch date:January 2012

Frequency

Graphics clock:925 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:3072 MB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1375 MHz
Memory clock (effective):5.5 GHz
Memory interface width:384-bit
Memory bandwidth:2** GB/s

Cores / Texture

Compute units:32
Color ROPs:32
Z/Stencil ROPs:128
Stream processors:2048
Texture units:128
RAMDACs:400 MHz
Decoders:Adobe Flash
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0
H.2**
MPEG 2 (SH & HD)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
VC-1
WMV HD

SLI / Crossfire

Maximum crossfire options:4-way

Electric characteristics

Maximum power draw:250 W

Video features

Multi-monitor:Up to 6 displays
Maximum DP resolution:4096 x 2160
Maximum DVI resolution:**0 x 1600
Maximum HDMI resolution:4096 x 3112
Maximum VGA resolution:2048 x 1536
Anti-Aliasing technologies:24 x MSAA
24 x SSAA
Adaptive AA
MLAA
HDMI:Yes
HDMI version:1.4a

Performance

Pixel fill rate:29.6 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:118.4 Gigatexels/s
Single presision compute power:3788.8 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:947.2 GFLOPS

External connectors

Standard display connectors:2 x mini-DP
Dual-Link DVI-I
HDMI
Power connectors:1 x 6-pin
1 x 8-pin
Audio input for HDMI:Yes

Dimensions

Size (length x height):11.02 inches (280 mm) x 4.33 inches (110 mm)
Width:Dual-Slot

Other features / Support

Other features:AMD PowerTune
AMD ZeroCore Power
ATI/AMD PowerPlay
Direct Compute 11
HD3D Technology
HDCP
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Support
Open CL support:1.2
OpenGL support:4.2
DirectX support:11.0
Shader model:5.0
Windows driver support:Windows 7
Windows Vista
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