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AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 2GB graphics card review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 December 2010, 18:49 3.5

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), HiS Graphics

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HD 6970 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 580  GTX 570   HD 5870  HD 6950
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -9.7 +6.4 +13.3 +11.7

 

 HD 6950 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 570  GTX 470   HD 5870  HD 6970
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -4.7  +20.4  +1.5  -10.4

Three takeaways here, folks. Last-gen HD 5870 is an impressive performer; the HD 6970 is only 13 per cent faster at the highest resolution. The second is the continued excellence of multi-GPU setups, where Ā£280 worth of HD 6850s are able to spank an HD 6970. Lastly, we see that the HD 6950 isn't that much slower than the range-topping HD 6970 - the gap is smaller than the one between GTX 580 and GTX 570.