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MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Boost Edition (part number R7970 Lightning BE) Graphics Processing Unit for desktop market segment is based on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, and built on 28 nm technology. The cards graphics frequency is 1.07 GHz. It also has 2048 stream processors, 32 color ROPs, along with 128 texture units. The Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Boost Edition incorporates 3 GB of GDDR5 memory. Since the memory runs at 1.5 GHz, and utilizes 384 bit bus, the effective memory bandwidth is 288 GB/s. The GPU supports PCI Express 3.0 interface, and uses 2 motherboard slots. The maximum power draw of this model is 250 Watt, on a par with the reference design.
More detailed specifications of the MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Boost Edition card are available below.