As you all may know that as per the latest benchmark reports Nvidia’s GTX 670 and GTX 680 kepler based graphic cards beats the hell out of AMD 7970. AMD 7970 in spite of having 3GB VRAM and more memory width, was beaten up by both of these Kepler based GPUs from Nvidia. In response to this AMD has nothing to do except to lower the price of their 7970. But now today AMD has launched the all new 7970 GHz edition.
AMD 7970 GHz is named because the core clock of this new graphic card is 1 GHz or 1000 MHz . This will give some performance boost to the performance of the original 7970. 7970 GHz edition is just a overclocked version of the original chip with increased bandwidth. AMD 7970 GHz edition will also be some what costlier than original GPU by approximately 100$.
The latest benchmarks reports from Toms Hardware indicates that the new AMD 7970 GHz edition is now comparable to GTX 680 and beats GTX 670 in almost every test they performed. This new GHz edition chip some times even beats GTX 680 at some high resolution tests (2500 X 1600) which require more VRAM for smooth experience.
The major difference between the original and the new GHz edition is given below in the table.
| Feature / Tech Spec | 7970 GHz edition | 7970 original | GTX 680 |
| Main clock | 1000 MHz to 1050 MHz (Boost) | 925 MHz | 1006 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHZ | 1375 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Video RAM | 3GB | 3GB | 2GB |
| Memory Bus Width | 384 bit | 384 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB per second | 264 GB per second | 192 GB per second |
| Texture Fill Rate | 134 Gtex/sec | 118 Gtex/sec | 128 Gtex/sec |
| Transistor Count | 4.31 billion | 4.31 billion | 3.54 billion |
| Power TDP | 250W | 250W | 195W |
| Indian Price | NA | Rs. 35,000 | Rs. 33,000 |