AMD Radeon™ HD 7900M Series Graphics 

Overview 

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900M Series graphics processors are the most technologically advanced and feature-rich mobile GPUs AMD has ever created, enabling unsurpassed HD gaming and stereoscopic 3D entertainment. Get massive computing power delivering desktop graphics power to mobile gamers for the ultimate performance at home or on-the-go.

Ready for Microsoft Windows® 8 and DirectX® 11.1 gaming!

Perfected: Take command with AMD’s GCN architecture and 2.8 billion transistors, engineered to deliver unbridled power, absurdly high frame rates and ultra-realistic gameplay. DirectX® 11.1 has never looked this good1. Expanded: Experience the overwhelming glory of AMD Eyefinity technology in Stereoscopic 3D. Expand your peripheral vision with new display configurations and illuminate the action like you have never seen before. Welcome to surround sight in 3D! 2, 4 Unrivalled: AMD App Acceleration for HD beyond belief. Experience certifiably spectacular HD video as well as a quantum-leap in application parallelism with the new GCN architecture – compute-optimized for extraordinary performance with all the eye candy5.

Specifications 

AMD Radeon™ HD 7970M Series GPU Feature Summary:

• 850 MHz Engine Clock
• 2GB GDDR5 Memory
• 1200 MHz Memory Clock (4.8 Gbps)
• 153.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 2176 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power
• 136 GFLOPS Double Precision compute power
• Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture¹
  • 9th generation programmable hardware tessellation unit
  • 20 Compute Units (1280 Stream Processors)
  • 80 Texture Units
  • 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 32 Color ROP Units
  • 512KB L2 read/write cache
• 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface⁷
• DirectX® 11.1 graphics
• OpenGL 4.2 support
• Partially Resident Texture (PRT) support
• Image quality enhancement technology
  • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing
  • Adaptive anti-aliasing
  • Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
  • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
  • 16x angle invariant anisotropic texture filtering
  • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology²
  • Native support for up to 6 simultaneous displays
  • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
  • Discrete Digital Multipoint (DDM) Audio
• AMD App Acceleration⁵
  • Supports OpenCL 1.2, DirectCompute 11, and Microsoft C++ AMP
  • Video Codec Engine (VCE)
    • Accelerated H.264 HD video encoding, transcoding, and up-scaling
  • Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
    • H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
    • Adobe Flash
  • Enhanced Video Quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling
      • Deblocking
      • Denoising
      • Automatic deinterlacing
      • Mosquito noise reduction
      • Edge enhancement
      • 3:2 pulldown detection
    • Advanced video color correction
      • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
      • Independent video gamma control
      • Flesh tone correction
      • Color vibrance control
      • Dynamic contrast
      • Dynamic video range control
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
• AMD HD3D technology⁴
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology⁸
  • Supports dual GPU performance scaling
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
  • HDMI (with 3D, 4k, Deep Color, x.v.Color)
    • Max resolution: 4096x3112
    • 1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
    • Quad HD/4k video support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology⁴
  • Automatic power management with low power idle states
  • AMD PowerTune technology
    • Intelligent TDP management technology
    • Dynamic clockspeed/performance enhancement for games
• AMD ZeroCore Power technology⁴
  • <1W idle for GPUs with inactive displays
  • Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
    • <1W idle for slave GPUs in AMD CrossFire™ configurations
• AMD Enduro™ technology⁶
  • Seamlessly powers down GPU when not required, and powers up GPU when you need it
• AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
  • Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
  • AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
  • Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.

Footnotes 

Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

1. The GCN Architecture and its associated features (PCI Express® 3.0, AMD Enduro™, AMD ZeroCore Power technology, DDM Audio, and 28nm production) are exclusive to the AMD Radeon™ HD 7700M, HD 7800M and HD 7900M Series Graphics. Not all technologies are supported in all system configurations—check with your system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
2. AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support nonstandard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. Support for six simultaneous displays may require complementary products compatible with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport. Maximum number of configured displays may vary—check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays. AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™ or DirectCompute (including AMD’s Universal Video Decoder (UVD)). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
3. AMD PowerTune, AMD PowerPlay and other AMD power management technologies are a family of technologies offered with certain AMD Radeon™ graphics products, which are designed to intelligently manage GPU power consumption in response to certain GPU load conditions. Not all products feature all technologies—check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
4. AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at http://www.amd.com/HD3D.
5. AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™, DirectCompute or DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
6. AMD Enduro technology requires either an AMD “A” series or “E” series APU or an Intel processor, plus an AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M series discrete graphics configuration and is available on Windows® 7 Professional, Windows® 7 Ultimate, Windows® 7 Home Premium, and/or Windows® 7 Home Basic OS. Linux OS supports manual switching which requires restart of X-Server to switch between graphics solutions. Not all AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M series GPU features and capabilities may be supported on all AMD Enduro technology-enabled components or systems – always check with your component or system manufacturer for specific mode capabilities and supported technologies.
7. Utilization of PCI Express 3.0 bandwidth requires a mainboard equipped with a PCI Express 3.0 PHY. Not all mainboards feature this technology – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
8. AMD CrossFire™ technology requires an AMD CrossFire™ Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.