{"id":40091,"date":"2012-06-22T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40091"},"modified":"2012-06-22T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:50:30","slug":"amd-launches-hd7970-ghz-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40091-amd-launches-hd7970-ghz-edition","title":{"rendered":"AMD launches HD7970 GHz edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia\u2019s<\/a> GTX 680 took the single GPU performance crown from AMD\u2019s<\/a> HD7970 earlier this year, something AMD is looking to reverse with the launch of the HD7970 GHz edition.<\/p>\n

The card is identical to the original HD7970 in terms of features, which include AMD Eyefinity 2.0 technology, AMD app acceleration and AMD Crossfire support.<\/p>\n

The GHz has a faster core clock speed, 1GHz as opposed to 925MHz, and a 1,500MHz memory speed rather than 1,375MHz on the standard edition.<\/p>\n

These speed increases mean the GHz edition has higher memory bandwidth (288GB\/s vs. 264GB\/S), higher Single Precision compute power (4.3 TFLOPS vs. 3.79 TFLOPS), and higher Double Precision compute power (1.01 TFLOPS vs. 0.947 TFLOPS).<\/p>\n

The GHz edition also features a new boost clock function, which increases the GPU core frequency from 1GHz to 1.05GHz if power draw and temperatures aren\u2019t too high.<\/p>\n

AMD is claiming the HD7970 is the fastest single GPU in the world, however these claims are based on performance testing a select few games, most at 2560×1600 with 8xAA and 16xAF enabled. We\u2019ll wait for more independent reviews at a wider range of test settings before reporting this as the ultimate truth however.<\/p>\n

No local pricing was available at the time of publication, though international prices will start at $499 (R4,170.64).<\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/h3>\n

Win Dirt Showdown with AMD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD releases Trinity APUs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD Eyefinity 2.0 technology detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD launches cheaper, overclocked HD 7970 to take on GTX 680<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":29199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[31,1051,5199,2024,2022,5198,45],"class_list":["post-40091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-amd-hd7970","tag-crossfire","tag-eyefinity","tag-hd7970","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40116,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091\/revisions\/40116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}