Eurocom adds HD 7970M to line of Ivy Bridge powered Notebooks

Eurocom is adding the newest AMD Radeon HD 7970M GPU to their extensive options list of Ivy Bridge powered, high performance notebooks.  The addition of the AMD Radeon HD 7970M offers users a new level of high performance GPU computing. Eurocom will also offer the AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPUs separately to existing customers as an upgrade option.The addition of the AMD Radeon HD 7970M, the highest performing mobile solution from AMD, gives Eurocom customers a superior choice of video processor options to configure into their new Eurocom system or upgrade into their existing system. The addition of the AMD Radeon 7970M GPUs in single and CrossFireX offers customers a greater selection of video processor options to fit any preference or performance level.

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.  Eurocom has combined AMD technology in their mobile systems to offer a stellar entertainment powerhouse with massive computing power delivering desktop graphics power to mobile gamers for the ultimate performance at home or on-the-go. Eurocom will be supporting AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics processors in its entire line up of discrete graphics notebooks in single and CrossFireX configuration in select systems.

Eurocom Ivy Bridge powered Models Supporting AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics:

The Eurocom Neptune 2.0 is a 17.3” Mobile Workstation that utilizes the Intel Mobile HM 77 Express Chipset with support for the full line of 22nm Ivy Bridge Processors. Graphics support comes from new AMD Radeon HD 7970M with support for up to four storage drives;  two drives support SATA 3 technology, another is a high performance mSATA drive, the fourth takes the place of the optical drive. The Neptune 2.0 supports 32 GB of DDR3-1600 memory for unforeseen multitasking ability and performance.

The Eurocom Racer 2.0 is a 15.6” small form factor Mobile Workstation utilizing the Intel Mobile HM 77 Express Chipset with support for the full line of 22nm Ivy Bridge Processors. Graphics support comes from AMD Radeon HD 7970M with support for up to three storage drives. Two of these drives support SATA 3 technology, one is a high performance mSATA drive, and the other takes the place of the optical drive. The Racer 2.0 supports 32 GB of DDR3-1600 memory for unforeseen multitasking ability and performance in a 15.6” system.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Series GPU Feature Summary:

• Process: 28nm
• 850 MHz Engine Clock
• 2GB GDDR5 Memory
• 1200 MHz Memory Clock (4.8 Gbps)
• 153.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
• 2176 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power
• 136 GFLOPS Double Precision compute power
• Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
• 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
• DirectX 11 graphics
• OpenGL 4.2 support

Source: PR