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.

This low performing GPU is unable to play any of the most demanding games available today.

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.

FPS System Benchmark

53 FPS

High

Game

Grand Theft Auto V

Resolution Performance
-	8.6	6.8	5.1	-

Resolution Performance

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8.6

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5.1

Popular Game System Requirements

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eddyman24

eddyman24's Rig
Saved at: Nov-25-2018

Compared to your Rig

CPU

FX-8350

GFX

Radeon R9 280

RAM

14GB DDR3 667MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Pantech Flex P8010

eddyman24's Game Library

05:08 Apr-17-2016

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

1998skatefreak

1998skatefreak's Test Rig
Saved at: May-31-2018

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Ryzen R7 1800X

GFX

GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual 6GB

RAM

8GB DDR4 2400MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Apple iPhone 5s 16 GB

1998skatefreak's Game Library

02:26 Nov-22-2014

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

Aphala

Aphala's Rig
Saved at: Jun-01-2015

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i7-4770 4-Core 3.4GHz

GFX

Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition

RAM

8GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

3360 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Apple iPhone 6 Plus 64GB

Aphala's Game Library

22:17 Dec-26-2014

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

1998skatefreak

1998skatefreak's Test Rig
Saved at: May-31-2018

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Ryzen R7 1800X

GFX

GeForce GTX 1060 Asus Dual 6GB

RAM

8GB DDR4 2400MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Apple iPhone 5s 16 GB

1998skatefreak's Game Library

04:50 Dec-31-2014

thanks mate

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