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AMD Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition

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A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements. 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? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 205% better performance and can run 897 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which is 124% more powerful and can run 667 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.
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The Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition is released on 01 Dec 2011

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Architecture
Terascale 3 Cayman XT
Process
40nm
TMUs
96
Texture Rate
84 GTexel/s
ROPs
32
Pixel Rate
28 GPixel/s
Shader
Processing Units
1536
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Compatibility
Direct X
DX 11.0
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.3
Resolution (WxH)
2560x1600
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SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
2048 MB
Memory Speed
1375 MHz
Memory Bus
256 Bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
176GB/sec
L2 Cache
512KB
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
0
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
1
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
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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
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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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This card is pretty good.. I've been rocking it for out 2 years now.. going to upgrade soon, though.


may get he R9 380

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can i use this with a 500 W PSU?
Also is this good for budget builds, like paired with an i3-4150/4130, or AMD x4 750K or will the cpu cause bottleneck?
Thanks in advance

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Yes :) it's low voltage and power consumption would be good, just don't OC it :)

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thanks mate

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