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A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB 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 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 246% better and can meet 866 of their recommended requirements. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which has 171% better performance and can run 703 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition is released on 01 Dec 2010

Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman Pro

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

70 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

26 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

1408

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048 MB

Memory Speed

1250 MHz

Memory Bus

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

160GB/sec

L2 Cache

512KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

800 MHz

Power

Max Power

200 Watts

PSU

500 Watt & 30 Amps

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-930 Quad 2.80GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 7970

GD Official

GD Value

Game-Debate Value Rating A standardised value score that gives an indication of GPU price to performance. Each score will adjust over time as prices change and performance expectations shift in todays marketplace.

GD RATING

Game-Debate Hardware Rating A standardised score that can be used to compare game system requirements directly with individual hardware components. Each score will adjust over time as better tech is released.

Approved

Resolution Performance
1366x768	1600x900	1920x1080	2560x1440	3840x2160
10	8.2	6.4	4.7	-

Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition is a renamed Radeon HD 6950 on which even the cooling system appears to be the same.
Therefore, Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition delivers the same performance the reference Radeon HD 6950 does.

Source [Pip]

CPU

Core i5-7640X 4.0GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 580 4GB

158%

RAM

11GB

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Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition Extras

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Variants

AMD HD 6000 Series

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