AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Graphics Card Launched

Today AMD launched the world’s fastest graphics processing unit (GPU) — the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. AMD reports that the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition uses AMD’s innovative Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, providing world-class gameplay at the highest resolutions in the most demanding games such as Battlefield 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and DiRT Showdown.

Specification include 1GHz engine clock (up to 1.05GHz with boost), 3GB GDDR5 memory, 1500MHz memory clock, 288GB/s memory bandwidth, 4.3 TFLOPS single precision compute power, and 1.01 TFLOPS double precision compute power.

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition also feature 32 compute units (2048 stream processors), 128 texture units, 128 Z/Stencil ROP units, 32 color ROP units, dual geometry units, AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology supporting upto 6 displays, and AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology (dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling).

I/O options include DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2, HDMI, Dual-link DVI with HDCP, and VGA.

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card is priced at $499.