Say hello to the fastest single-GPU graphics card on the planet: AMD Radeon™ HD 7970

AMD today announced the fastest single-GPU graphics card on the planet. It's also the world's first 28nm GPU. Here are the mid-boggling specs:

• 925 MHz core clock
• 2048 Stream Processors
• 5.5 GHz effective GDDR5
• 384-Bit bus with 3GB Frame buffer 
• 4.31 Billion transistors
• Full support for 3GHz HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2
• Supports PCI Express 3.0 standard

The card will be actually be available for purchase from the 9th of January 2012. The estimated cost is approximately 30,000 rupees which is pretty hefty for a single GPU card.