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Radeon HD 8970 (OEM)

Specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 8970 (OEM) GPU


Introduced in January 2013, AMD Radeon HD 8970 (OEM) desktop Graphics Processing Unit utilizes Graphics Core Next architecture, and is built on 28 nm technological process. The card has graphics clocked at 1 GHz. Furthermore, it has 2048 stream processors, 32 color ROPs, as well as 128 texture units. The Radeon HD 8970 (OEM) embeds 3 GB of GDDR5 memory. Because the memory operates at 1.5 GHz, and uses 384 bit bus, the effective memory bandwidth is 288 GB/s. The GPU supports PCI Express 3.0 interface, and needs 2 motherboard slots. This model requires up to 250 Watt of power.

More detailed specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 8970 (OEM) graphics card are available below.

Name / Brand / Architecture

Manufacturer:AMD
Model:Radeon HD 8970 (OEM)
Reference card?:Yes
Target market segment:Desktop
Die name:Tahiti XT2
Architecture:Graphics Core Next
Fabrication process:28 nm
Transistors:4.31 billion
Bus interface:PCI-E 3.0 x 16
Launch date:January 2013

Frequency

Graphics clock:1000 MHz
Boost clock:1050 MHz

Memory specifications

Memory size:3072 MB
Memory type:GDDR5
Memory clock:1500 MHz
Memory clock (effective):6000 MHz
Memory interface width:384-bit
Memory bandwidth:288 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 2160
Maximum VGA resolution:2048 x 1536
Anti-Aliasing technologies:24 x MSAA
24 x SSAA
Adaptive AA
MLAA 2.0
HDMI:Yes
HDMI version:1.4a

Performance

Pixel fill rate:33.6 Gigapixels/s
Texture fill rate:134.4 Gigatexels/s
Single presision compute power:4300.8 GFLOPS
Double precision compute power:1075.2 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

Length:10.8 inches (274 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:4.3
DirectX support:11.1
Shader model:5.0
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