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Release Period- Dec-2010
Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition Review
Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition is a tweaked Radeon HD 6970 and part of the Radeon HD 6000 Series released by AMD in 2010/2011.
The only difference between Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition and Radeon HD 6970 appears to be the core clock, which was only raised from 880MHz to 890MHz.
Benchmarks indicate a 1% performance boost when compared to the standard Radeon HD 6970.
All demanding games, including very demanding one's like Metro 2033/The Witcher II will run on the highest settings.
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890 MHz
Cayman XT
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96
85.44 GTexel/s
32
28.48 GPixel/s
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Core i7-875K Quad 2.93GHz
8 GB
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damon666
17:24 Mar-15-2013

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how come when i click the picture of the asus 6970 the XFX HD 7950 always comes up something fishy here Oo
ADRYAN
10:33 Feb-18-2013

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My GPU is 6% better?????? WUUUUUTTT???
ilyakillya
19:27 Mar-02-2013

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overclock?
Core2Quad
09:26 Jan-28-2013

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I Want this GPU :( Was about to buy it but my PSU........ Its only 320w :(
Tero
22:00 Feb-12-2013

Yeah no chance :D
LeonArkadius
21:29 Sep-07-2012

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On your list of games, you say you ultra war of the roses beta with 60 fps. What FPS do you achieve when you max the beta?
Tero
22:09 Sep-08-2012

I guess you're talking to me :D
If you look closely enough, you'll notice that I got 80 FPS ;)
Tero
13:05 Jul-03-2012

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Did some overclocking and I got this clocked @945MHz/1535MHz (6140 effective).
3DMark Vantage results:
Stock clocks P21781 (22126/20806), FPS (68.82/60.67)
Overclocked P22681 (23281/21184), FPS (72.64/64.08)
So I ended up with 900 more Marks (see what I did there?) and +4 FPS :D
Much to my surprise, even the CPU score rose a bit :D
I used AMD OverDrive to OC.
And for anyone who is interested, the current memory bandwidth is 196.48GB/s ;)
alt639
13:27 Jul-03-2012

Impressive work TM :D are you going to try to push it further? ⌂
Tero
13:58 Jul-03-2012

Can't go any further (at least with AMD OverDrive)... :D
5MHz more core and the drivers crash, 5MHz more RAM speed and artifacts appear ;)
alt639
14:32 Jul-03-2012

What are the in-game improvements? ⌂
Tero
14:49 Jul-03-2012

Haven't tried the 2 games that my rig struggles with (Witcher II & Metro 2033) yet, other games run as good as they did earlier (I use Vsync) ;)
alt639
14:58 Jul-03-2012

Same here, I hate tearing :D
dorklord
18:13 Aug-05-2012

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@Tero- What Problem With Metro 2033???
I Mean Your Rig IS Really Awesome So Why The Struggle???
alt639
18:31 Aug-05-2012

Metro 2033 is the most demanding game available right now. You either need a high end 28nm card or two high end 40nm cards to get it running above 60 fps at ultra settings, mainly because of the extreme quality of the DX11 effects that it uses.
dorklord
18:37 Aug-05-2012

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@alt639-- Sure But It Is.But Isn't Tero's Rig Good Enough To Run It Without Errors???
alt639
18:48 Aug-05-2012

Yes it can run it very well, but if he tried to use the maximum settings, it wouldn't be very playable. A GTX 580, the rough equivalent of Tero's card, gets 35 fps on average at his resolution, seen here.
dorklord
09:55 Aug-06-2012

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Ohk...
Tero
21:09 Sep-07-2012

Yeah I get drops to 50 occasionally ;)
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03:44 Sep-08-2012

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Hey Tero, I'm sure u can go further using Sapphire Trixx by add some voltage... see if u can go 1600 Mhz.. :)
Tero
22:06 Sep-08-2012

I won't risk damaging my baby ;)
Mazasrb
23:56 Sep-08-2012

For 3 FPS, not worth of it ;)
JaneDoe
00:30 Jan-29-2013

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Dammn people you'r crazy , now i see your rig so good exellent , and you got 50fps , becaouse you alllllll playyyyyyy on high resolution 1920 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... I would love tooo :) , but with my res , still play on 50+ fps on ultra :) :) :)
Tero
10:05 Feb-20-2012

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Be aware that this card takes 3 expansion slots... I had to change my SATA cables to be able to fit this beast in to my rig. :D
Mark
10:46 Feb-20-2012

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I see, it looks big and strong :D Have you got it stored in a mini-, mid- or full-tower? ;)
Tero
11:40 Feb-20-2012

Check my rig, I got a picture of my PC there :)
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/files/images/67/2_144360-545x729.jpeg
It's a basic case, fit in just barely :D
Mark
13:26 Feb-20-2012

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Yeah basic, but it still looks nice :) I can imagine this BEAST fits in the mini tower (when I'm right...) barely, but you made it ;) Nice!
Abdullahshahid959
18:13 Apr-16-2012

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same here.....my motherboard can handle 3 amd/ati crossfire gpus after buying this card my mobo cant handle any amd/ati gpus as this one is king of monsters....now my mobo can handle only one nvidia card.....:=)
Tero
18:29 Apr-16-2012

I'm still thinking about overclocking this... I know I don't have to but with core set to 974MHz and RAM @ 1528MHz (found on a website) I'm curious to see what 3DMark 11 would say :D
Abdullahshahid959
07:57 Apr-17-2012

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the msi lightning edition doesn't takes 3 slots it takes only 2 slots and it is more expensive than this but its expensive for a reason..the xfx edition of the hs 6970 is more expensive than the msi lightning edition but not more powerful than the msi one...:=)
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