Identity
- Brand
- AMD
- Model
- Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
- Variant
- Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB
- GPU name
- Tahiti
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Release date
- Jun 22, 2012
- Release year
- 2012
- Reported production status
- End-of-life
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AMDGCN 1.0Released 2012Pricing updated Jul 20, 2026
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB
Current used-market pricing is not yet reliable enough to estimate what a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB is worth. Use the range and sample size below to judge a fair buying or selling price.
Used min
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Lowest qualifying recent sold price.
Used median
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Median of recent qualifying sold prices.
Performance
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4.3 TFLOPS
Qualified sales
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Collected Jul 20, 2026
Current Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB Valuation
A practical used-market estimate based on the latest qualifying sold-listing snapshot. The fair range uses the middle 50% of prices when those percentiles are available.
Typical used value
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Latest median qualified sale price.
Fair buying range
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Usually the 25th–75th percentile range.
Estimate confidence
Low
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Price trend
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30 days
Used Price History
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Current Percentile Snapshot
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GPU Information
Hardware specifications grouped into a readable reference sheet.
Pricing
- MSRP
- $499
- Used minimum
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- Used 25th percentile
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- Used 75th percentile
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- Current new price
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- Retail price check
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- Qualified sales count
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- eBay retail listing
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- Amazon retail listing
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- Newegg retail listing
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Memory and Bus
- Memory size
- 3 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Memory bus
- 384-bit
- Bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- PCIe lanes
- 16
- Process
- 28 nm
Clocks and Compute
- GPU clock
- -
- Base clock
- 1,000 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1,050 MHz
- Game clock
- -
- Shading units
- 2,048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- RT cores
- -
- Tensor cores
- -
- FP32 throughput
- 4.3 TFLOPS
- Relative performance
- -
Physical
- Slot width
- Dual-slot
- Length
- 275 mm
- Board power
- 300 W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Outputs
- 1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
APIs and Snapshots
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.1 (1.2)
- Vulkan
- 1.2.170
- Latest snapshot
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- Latest snapshot sample
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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB FAQ
Quick answers pulled from the latest tracked pricing and spec data.
When was the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB released?
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Tahiti | GDDR5 | 3 GB was released in 2012. Release year matters on the used market because it affects driver support, platform compatibility, and how much life the part likely has left.
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