Micro-Star International had previously announced the launch of Radeon HD 7970 way back in 22nd December 2011, but has only recently begun selling it. MSI’s decision to make the graphics adapter available comes hot on the trail of AMD’s decision to ship their high-end Radeon HD 7970. It is being said that the initial batch will be based on AMD’s reference design, with MSI marketing their very own custom-cooled design in sometime along with brand new HD 7950.
Coming in with MSI Afterburner over-clocking utility, HD 7970 will support over-voltage function, advanced fan speed control and burn-in stability. 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM ensures that the user experiences high resolution PC games and movies. Presence of all solid capacitors provide up to 10 years of ultra long life, prevents heating up of components resulting in high efficiency of the product. Also included in HD 7970 are Blu-ray 3D stereo transmission capability, compatibility with the PCI Express Gen 3 and of course, support for AMD Eyefinity Technology that has the bility to connect up to 6 displays through 2 DisplayPorts. Video output functions include one each of HDMI and dual-link DVI, and two Mini DisplayPort.
The MSI R7970-2PMD3GD5 Graphics Card can be purchased in India for INR 49,700.