10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB which is 147% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 716 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300, which is 98% more powerful and can run 300 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

FPS System Benchmark

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition was released on 01 Dec 2011

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

84 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

28 GPixel/s

Shader Processing Units

Ray Tracing

Tensor Cores

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.1

Resolution (WxH)

2560 x 1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048MB

Memory Speed

1375MHz

Memory Bus

256bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

176GB/sec

L2 Cache

512

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

880 MHz

Power

Max Power

250 Watts

PSU

550 Watt & 34 Amps

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-875K Quad 2.93GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

GD Official

GD RATING

Approved

Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition is a special edition of the high-end AMD Radeon HD 6970 that features nothing new, other than a new fan. Its performance is exactly like the reference Radeon HD 6970.

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