The Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 1GB Edition was released on 01 Oct 2011
AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 1GB Edition
GPU
Architecture
Terascale 3 Cayman Pro
Process
40nm
TMUs
88
Texture Rate
70 GTexel/s
ROPs
32
Pixel Rate
26 GPixel/s
Ray Tracing
Tensor Cores
Release Price
Compatibility
Direct X
DX 11
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.2
Resolution (WxH)
2560 x 1600
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
1024MB
Memory Speed
1250MHz
Memory Bus
256bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
160GB/sec
L2 Cache
512
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
1
DisplayPort Connection
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
800 MHz
Power
Max Power
None
PSU
500 Watt
Power Connector
None
Recommended Hardware
Best CPU Match
Best RAM Match
8 GB
Best Resolution
1920 x 1080
GPU Upgrade
GD Official
GD RATING
Approved
Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 1GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis
Radeon HD 6950 Sapphire 1GB Edition is a special edition of Radeon HD 6950 that features a special cooler using a new dual fan configuration. However, its frame buffer is halved to 1GB and so its performance is worse than the reference card since it's known this GPU benefits from a 2GB frame buffer.
Benchmarks indicate its performance is overall 2% worse than the reference card.