The Sapphire HD 7970 OC Edition features Sapphires dual-extractor technology
- Dual-X
- a highly efficient multi-heatpipe cooler with dual fans providing quiet & very cool operation during normal operating conditions, & superb cooling performance even under extreme load. The HD 7970 from AMD is the most powerful single chip GPU ever built
- it has internal structure with 32 compute units & a total of 2048 stream processors. The Sapphire HD 7970 OC Edition ships with a raised core clock speed of 950 M Hz, & 1425 M Hz for the memory. Its dual BIOS switch allows users to select the higher performance settings of 1 G Hz core & 1450 M Hz memory, making the fastest card in its class. This setting also uses a more aggressive fan profile & raises the limits for maximum overclocking.