AMD Launches Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card for Desktop PCs

AMD (News - Alert), a semiconductor designer, claimed that its newly unveiled AMD Radeon HD 7970 is the world’s fastest single GPU graphics card and also the only GPU that is built on the 28nm production technology.

The new 7970 utilizes the “Tahiti XT” GPU which, aside from being built on 28nm processes also uses the brand new AMD “Graphics Core Next” architecture. Graphics Core Next (GDC) is a revolutionary new architecture that eliminates the previous VLIW design for a non-VLIW SIMD engine.

Some of the new features packed into the Tahiti core are: 32 compute engines; dual geometry engines; 8 render back-ends; up to 768 KB read/write L2 cache; fast 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface and a 3GB memory buffer; PCI (News - Alert) Express 3.0 x 16 bus interface; 4.3 billion 28nm transistors; and more.

The number of transistors the Tahiti XT core is packed with claims to be twice as much as Intel’s (News - Alert) recently launched Sandy Bridge-E chips which feature 2.27 billion transistors. The total compute performance is 3.79 TFlops with texture fillrate at 118.4GT/s and pixel fillrate at 29.6 Gigapixel/s. A 3GB GDDR5 Memory buffer would run across a 384-bit wide interface allowing for a total data rate of 5.5Gbps and 264GB/s bandwidth.

AMD asserted that it further extends its GPU leadership with the AMD Radeon HD 7970 through AMD App Acceleration, which enables exquisite high-definition video images and exceptional performance improvements for everyday applications.

Officials with the company exclaimed that true to the maxim, ‘never settle’ AMD is once again aggressively advancing the state of the graphics industry – this time with the arrival of the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 7970. The graphics card represents a revolution in the graphics industry. To put it bluntly, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 changes everything.

The card is stated to be an awesome tool in any gamer's arsenal. The AMD CrossFire technology is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform. Unlocking game-dominating power, AMD CrossFire technology, coupled with PCI Express 3.0, will allow for unprecedented bandwidth in TriFire and QuadFire configurations.