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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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Cayman does well here. HD 6970 is just a sniff behind the GTX 580. That sniff is decimated when looking at how close the GTX 570 vs. HD 6950 numbers are.

What's clear thus far is that AMD isn't going to open up a can of whoop-ass on the Fermi cards. Rather, the opportunity for whoop-ass-ism, if we can call it that, is more in NVIDIA's court.

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 580  GTX 570   HD 5870  HD 6950
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -4.6 +10.7  +22  +11.7

 

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 570  GTX 470   HD 5870  HD 6970
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -0.9  +26.1  +9.2  -10.5