To call it a big jump would be an understatement: compared to the 8800M, the flagship 8970M chip doubles the stream processors to 1, 280, hikes the clock speed from 725MHz to 850MHz and bumps the memory speed slightly to 1.2GHz.

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It also has 64 MB of memory, a back-lit screen that incorporates a stopwatch and a clock, and an FM tuner for listening to the radio.

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Obviously designed for the workstation crowd, this CAD destroying GPU is equipped with more GDDR5 memory than our own four-year old Quake III server, but as HotHardware points out, the clock speed remains exactly the same as the entirely more affordable V8700.

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