1GHz Overclocked Radeon HD 7970 Announced by XFX

[win7holic]

XFX is the first company to announce a custom designed version of the AMD Radeon HD 7970, which will be launched in the company’s Black Edition line and will arrive sporting a 1GHz overclocked Tahiti XT GPU.

The card is based on a XFX proprietary design and includes two large fans (presumably 92mm) for dissipating the heat produced by the card while running.

Thanks to this advanced cooling setup, XFX was able to push AMD’s graphics card over its reference frequencies and clocked the GPU at an impressive 1GHz while the memory is now working at 1425MHz (5.7Gbps data rate).

To put things in perspective, AMD’s recommended operating frequencies for the Radeon HD 7970 are set at 925MHz and 1.375GHz (5.5GHz effective), respectively.

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[Nathan Wootton]

here is a review that compares it with GPUS out now http://www.motherboards.org/review/sapphire-hd-radeon-7970-video-card-review?page=5

 

[McLovin]

1GHz Overclocked, that must have alot of power.

 

[Valentin N]

The new gpu can overclock pretty well with reference design. watercooled gpu might even clock more than 1,2GHz

Nvidia are not impressed with AMD's new gpu-architecture. Lets see if they can backup those statements with their Kepler. I personally will wait untill Maxwell come out.