| Attribute | Value |
| GPU |
| Release year | 2012 year |
| Reference card | AMD Radeon HD 7970 925 MHz 3 GB |
| GPU brand | AMD |
| GPU name | Tahiti XT2 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 1,000 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 1,050 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | - |
| Model | AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
| Memory |
| Memory | 3,072 MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s |
| Memory bus | 384 bit |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz |
| Effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz |
| Noise and power |
| TDP | 300 W |
| Load power consumption | 360 W |
| Idle power consumption | 112 W |
| Load noise level | 53.1 dB |
| Idle noise level | 40.2 dB |
| Raw performance |
| Pixel rate | 33.6 GPixel/s |
| SMX units | Add |
| Render output processors | 32 |
| Texture mapping units | 128 |
| Shading units | 2,048 |
| Floating-point performance | 4,301 GFLOPS |
| Compute units | 32 |
| Texture rate | 134.4 GTexel/s |
| Benchmarks |
| Metro: Last Light | Add |
| Civilization 5 | Add |
| FarCry 3 | Add |
| Battlefield 3 | Add |
| Particle simulation | Add |
| T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) | Add |
| Video composition | Add |
| Crysis 3 | 28.3 |
| PassMark | Add |
| PassMark Direct Compute | Add |
| 3DMark 11 Graphics | Add |
| 3DMark Vantage Graphics | Add |
| Dirt3 | Add |
| CLBenchmark Raytrace | Add |
| Bioshock Infinite | 78 |
| Dead Space 3 | Add |
| 3DMark06 | Add |
| 3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) | Add |
| Battleforge | Add |
| Hawx | Add |
| SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 | Add |
| SmallLux GPU 1.7Beta | Add |
| Unigine: Heaven 4.0 | Add |
| Hitman: Absolution | Add |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | Add |
| Crysis: Warhead (2013) | Add |
| Batman: Arkham City | Add |
| Far Cry 3 | Add |
| Crysis 2 | Add |
| Cloud Gate Factor | Add |
| Diablo III | Add |
| Battlefield 4 | Add |
| Face detection | 94.02 mPixels/s |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 2798.85 |
| Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) | 2984.22 |
| Bitcoin mining | 487.62 mHash/s |
| Sky Diver Factor | 380.04 |
| Thief | Add |
| Fire Strike Factor | 62.9 |
| Ocean surface simulation | Add |