The Radeon 7970 is packing some serious first base : a steel new nitty-gritty design , and the existence ’s first GPU using cool , effective 28 nm transistors . But it ’s also plan , of course , to be debauched as hell . Gamers , you ’re gon na need one .
The 7970 ’s number are arduous as hell on newspaper : 3 GB of RAM , up to 32 home computing unit , the first use of PCI - E Gen 3 , Direct X 11.1 support , and a fat , CPU - style L2 stash . That total up to a potential six monitors gaming at once . And that ’s just with one — you could sling together up to four of these thing at once . AMD is promising tremendous increase over Nvidia ’s top card — billing it as the world ’s fast — but we ’ll hold in off on sound judgement until we have something unfaltering than intimate , synthetic bench mark . Still , there ’s no rationality to think this affair will be anything less than fabulously powerful , with both game ( of course ) and the bevy of desktop software it ’s able of accelerating .
But it ’s not all about power ! The 7970 is power with responsibility , or something . It ’s capable of storm up its power consumption when needed — and scaling it down to practically zero when your desktop has been idle for a while . And it ’ll be quiet , unlike many GPU fireball — no leaf electric fan , if AMD is to be believed . They claim a raw fan design and smarter ventilation angles will stand for soft cooling . With all that horsepower , we hope so !
Again , we ’ll have to waitress until the 7970 drops on January 9th ( for $ 550 ) to see how the lineup stack up IRL . If you want to plug Battlefield 3 down into submission , be unrestrained . [ AMD ]
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