Graphics Card Review: AMD Radeon HD 7970: Fastest Out There

A year after the Radeon HD 6900, AMD has renewed its high-end graphics card offer with its first new model, the Radeon HD 7970. It's quite simply the fastest graphics card out there right now.

The Radeon HD 7970 uses AMD’s Southern Islands GPU architecture for the first time. This prospect is mouthwatering, combined as it is with the 28nm engraving, implementation of PCIe 3.0 and DirectX 11.1 compatibility, all for the first time. The 7970 also has much improved 2D energy consumption, 3 GB of GDDR5 memory and no fewer than 2048 processing units. There’s a clear break with the Radeon HD 6000 generation.

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