SAPPHIRE Launches Radeon HD 7970 OC Edition Video Card
SAPPHIRE today announced the release of a factory overclocked version of its AMD Radeon HD 7970 video card with the companies new dual-extractor (Dual-X) fan technology. The Dual-X GPU cooler features multiple heatpipes and dual fans for very cool operation. The Radeon HD 7970 from AMD is the most powerful single chip GPU ever built – it has a new internal structure with 32 compute units and a total of 2048 Stream processors. The SAPPHIRE HD 7970 OC Edition ships with a raised core clock speed of 950MHz, and 1425MHz for the memory. Its Dual BIOS switch allows users to select the higher performance settings of 1GHz core and 1450MHz memory, making the fastest AMD Radeon HD 7970 video card on the market today.
The HD 7000 series is the third generation of DirectX 11 compatible solutions from the graphics division of AMD – formerly ATI. The SAPPHIRE HD 7970 is ready for DirectX 11.1 and the new Windows 8 operating system as well as delivering all the features of the current DirectX 11 such as DirectCompute11 and multi threaded communications with the CPU. Communication with the host PC is optimised with the implementation of the latest high speed PCI-Express Gen3.0 interface, and multiple cards can be used to further enhance performance in CrossFireX mode on a suitably specified mainboard.
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