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But before we jump into our gaming benchmarks, let’s take a moment to check out the new card's capabilities and features in greater detail. With a mere two weeks before it’ll be possible to get your hands on a new Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, it’s definitely nice to get a look now at how they perform. In an effort to beat Nvidia, AMD pushed up their (soft) launch date to late December. Nvidia is said to be updating their graphics lineup early in 2012, with the GeForce 600 series also expected to utilize the 28nm process. This number whales that of the GeForce GTX 580 which boasts 3+ billion transistors in its massive 520mm2 die. Although the die size is only slightly smaller, at 365mm2 there are some 1.7 billion more transistors, taking the total count to a whopping 4.3 billion. The die shrink means AMD can cram more transistors into the same space, a lot more. The new HD 7970 will effectively become AMD's new flagship single GPU graphics card come January, when the board is expected to ship. The Radeon HD 7970 is the first of a series of upcoming graphics cards that are making the jump to the 28nm fabrication process. Now a year later AMD is launching its Radeon HD 7000 series which has been given the codename 'Southern Islands'.
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When compared to its previous generation board (the Radeon HD 5870), the Radeon HD 6970 was on average 24% faster.
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For about $369 today, you can still get one hell of a graphics card, comprised of 2.6 billion transistors, a die measuring 389mm2 and a 250W TDP rating, but most importantly capable of running all modern PC games fluidly except for some extreme scenarios. For the last 12 months, AMD has had the Radeon HD 6970 be its premier single GPU graphics card, competing head to head with the GeForce GTX 570 and at times challenging the mighty GTX 580.