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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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Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops set a new record has the highest-grossing entertainment release in history. The title is benchmarked with 4x AA and 16x AF, along with other high-quality settings. We FRAPS a 30-second section that's indicative of general gameplay.

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 580  GTX 570   HD 5870  HD 6950
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -11  +3.3  +28.2  +11

 

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 570  GTX 470   HD 5870  HD 6970
 Faster/slower (per cent)  -7.0  +14.1  +15.5  -9.9

The Radeons haven't historically been as fast in Call of Duty titles. We see that Radeon HD 6970 struggles to get past GTX 570, though it's appreciably speedier than HD 5870.

Again, it's really worth noting the performance of multi-GPU setups. The Radeon HD 6970 is battered by two HD 6850 GPUs in CrossFireX.