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AMD Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition

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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.

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

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.

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45 FPS
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The Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 2GB Edition is released on the 01 Dec 2010
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GPU
Architecture
Terascale 3 Cayman Pro
Process
40nm
TMUs
88
Texture Rate
70 GTexel/s
ROPs
32
Pixel Rate
26 GPixel/s
Shader
Processing Units
1408
Driver Support
golden star golden star empty star empty star empty star
Release Price
Compatibility
Direct X
DX 11.0
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.3
Resolution (WxH)
2560x1600
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
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
0
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
1
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
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Radeon HD 7970
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GD GPU hardware score: 4
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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.


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any psu that can handle all of my stuff ! ! !

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AMD graphic cards design is awesome as compare to GeForce no doubt bt the performance is low than GeForce in the same price..

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Unable to boot with 6970 bios, guess I'll just have to be content with the shaders unlocked…

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Just unlocked with a bios update on the Z77 chipset, for anyone with similar problems may be worth a try.

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just got one for £93

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waow, that's really cheap price..

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I just got one for £59.99

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Rekt by 40$ ^^

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got it for 40 aswell

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in here it costs 92$

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