The Radeon HD 7970 is a mid-tier desktop gaming GPU released on Dec 22, 2011.

Release Date	TDP	Memory	Memory Type	Memory Bus
Dec 22nd, 2011	250 W	3 GB	GDDR5	384-bit

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Radeon HD 7970 Specifications

The GPU's core specifications

General
Release Date	Dec 22nd, 2011
MSRP	$549.00
Segment	Desktop
Generation	Southern Islands
Power Consumption	250 W

Memory
Memory Size	3 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Bus	384-bit
Memory Bandwidth	264 GB/s

Theoretical Performance
Pixel Fillrate	29.6 GPixel/s
Texture Fillrate	118.4 GTexel/s
FP32	3.789 TFLOPS

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