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Release Period	-	Jun-2012

Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition Review

Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition is a special Edition of the Radeon HD 7970. See the page of the standard edition for more information.
On this version the core-clock was raised from 925MHz to 1080MHz.
Benchmarks indicate a 8.5% performance boost when compared to the standard Radeon HD 7970.
Therefore, all games, including very demanding ones, should be fully playable at max settings and with very attractive resolutions.
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Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition Performance Specification

Core Speed

Architecture

Memory

Memory Speed

Memory Bus

Memory Type

Memory Bandwidth

Technology

TMUs

Texture Rate

ROPs

Pixel Rate

Shader
Processing Units

Direct X

Shader

Open GL

Resolution (WxH)

Max Power

PSU

GPU Details

1080 MHz

Tahiti XT

3072 MB

1375 MHz

384 Bit

GDDR5

264GB/sec

28nm

128

138.24 GTexel/s

34.56 GPixel/s

2048

DX 11.1

5.0

4.2

2560x1600

650 Watt

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

Best CPU Match

Best RAM Match

Best Screen Size

GPU Upgrade

Approved

GD Value

GD RATING

GPU Features

No the Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition graphics card is NOT a laptop and notebook GPU

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition graphics card is a dedicated GPU

No the Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition graphics card is NOT an integrated GPU

Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz

8 GB

1920 x 1080

Yes the Radeon HD 7970 GigaByte SOC Edition graphics card has been approved by GD Admin. Always use GD data as a guideline.

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Avg. User ScoreGD Rating

9.3

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Discussion Page 1

Georgie

10:33 May-05-2013

Georgie's Rig
Saved at: May-20-2013

Compared to your Rig

CPU

FX-4100 oc: 10%

GFX

GeForce GTX 550 Ti WindForce Edition

RAM

6GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1600 x 1024
width x height

Phone

BlackBerry Curve 9300

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Could my cpu (overclocked) handle this card??

XxSoultheKeeperXx

20:24 May-05-2013

XxSoultheKeeperXx's Rig
Saved at: May-23-2013

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz oc: 15%

GFX

Radeon HD 7870 Double D Black Edition

RAM

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Samsung Galaxy SIII

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XxSoultheKeeperXx is a great part of the GD community. This person will help where they can!
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you'd have to oc about 15% which should be easily feasible

andy8800

01:42 May-06-2013

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Saved at: May-23-2013

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CPU

Core i5-2320 3.0GHz

GFX

Radeon HD 7870

RAM

8GB DDR3 1333MHz

RES

1366 x 768
width x height

Phone

HTC One X+

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I doubt you will be able to overclock to a point where no bottleneck will be a concern(about 5GHz)unless having really beefed up coolers, you could try out HD7870LE(tahiti) that way you would put less stress on your cpu and less chance frying it . a stock i5 is considerably more powerful than an fx-4000 series but still a bottleneck

XxSoultheKeeperXx

06:21 May-05-2013

XxSoultheKeeperXx's Rig
Saved at: May-23-2013

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz oc: 15%

GFX

Radeon HD 7870 Double D Black Edition

RAM

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height