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Specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning GPU


MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning (part number R7970 Lightning) Graphics Processing Unit for desktop market segment is based on AMD Radeon HD 7970, and produced on 28 nm technology. The card has 1.07 GHz graphics clock frequency. Furthermore, it has 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units, together with 32 color ROPs. The Radeon HD 7970 Lightning embeds 3 GB of GDDR5 memory. Since the memory runs at 1.4 GHz, and uses 384 bit bus, the effective memory bandwidth is 268.8 GB/s. The GPU supports PCI Express 3.0 interface, and requires 2 slots on the motherboard. This model needs up to 250 Watt of power, on a par with the reference design.

More detailed specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning graphics card you will find below.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:MSI
Model:Radeon HD 7970 Lightning
Part number:R7970 Lightning
Reference card?:No
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

Frequency

Graphics clock:1070 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:3072 MB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1400 MHz
Memory clock (effective):5.6 GHz
Memory interface width:384-bit
Memory bandwidth:268.8 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.264
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:2560 x 1600
Maximum DVI resolution:1920 x 1200
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:34.24 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:136.96 Gigatexels/s
Single presision compute power:4382.72 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:1095.68 GFLOPS

External connectors

Standard display connectors:4 x mini-DP
Single Link DVI-D
Single-Link DVI-I
Power connectors:1 x 6-pin
1 x 8-pin
Audio input for HDMI:Yes

Dimensions

Size (length x height):12 inches (305 mm) x 5.33 inches (135.5 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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