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A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements. DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 197% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 773 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB as this is better than 675 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 142% better performance as well.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition is released on 01 Dec 2010

Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

85 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

28 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

1536

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 6970 Asus Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048 MB

Memory Speed

1375 MHz

Memory Bus

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

176GB/sec

L2 Cache

512KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

890 MHz

Power

Max Power

250 Watts

PSU

700 Watt & 42 Amps

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-875K Quad 2.93GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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
-	8.7	6.9	5.1	-

Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition is a tweaked Radeon HD 6970 and part of the Radeon HD 6000 Series released by AMD in 2010/2011.
The only difference between Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition and Radeon HD 6970 appears to be the core clock, which was only raised from 880MHz to 890MHz.
Benchmarks indicate a 1% performance boost when compared to the standard Radeon HD 6970.
All demanding games, including very demanding one's like Metro 2033/The Witcher II will run on the highest settings.

Source [Pip]

CPU

Core i7-4790 4-Core 3.6GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

174%

RAM

13GB

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Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition Extras

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Variants

AMD HD 6000 Series

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