10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

How well will the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire run 2023 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. 235 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire shows us that Far Cry 6 is getting a weak result of 0 FPS, and then we are seeing Resident Evil 8 returning a weak 0 FPS while another game on our list is the Battlefield 2042 which is getting 0 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Resident Evil 8 to see how the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Next we looked at Battlefield 2042 which was weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Far Cry 6 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 0. 1440p Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire PC gaming is going to struggle at this higher gaming resolution.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire in your PC? This Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire? A great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, which has 51% better performance and can run 716 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 6970 CrossFire then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300 as this is better than 300 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well.