Radeon HD 7970 X2: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7970 X2 sales 31 August 2012 at a recommended price of $899 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 264.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 292 mm. 3 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 500 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 7970 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameNew Zealand
Market segmentDesktop
Release date31 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 7970 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed925 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors4,313 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)500 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate118.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs128of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 7970 X2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length292 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1375 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7970 X2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7970 X2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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