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AMD Launches World’s Fastest Single-GPU Graphics Card

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AMD has launched the AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card for desktop PCs, introducing the world’s fastest single GPU graphics card and the only GPU based on 28nm production technology, says the company.

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 comes with a new Graphics Core Next Architecture that realizes an improvement of over 150 per cent in performance/sq mm over the prior generation, and is engineered with support for PCI Express 3.0 and AMD CrossFire technology.

Matt Skynner (Corporate vice president and general manager, GPU Division, AMD):This graphics card represents a revolution in the graphics industry. To put it bluntly, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 changes everything!

You can read Mr. Skynner’s blog post on the AMD Radeon HD 7970 here.

 

 

 

 

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