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AMD Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition

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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.

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

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.

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54 FPS
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The Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition is released on the 01 Dec 2010
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Architecture
Terascale 3 Cayman XT
Process
40nm
TMUs
96
Texture Rate
85 GTexel/s
ROPs
32
Pixel Rate
28 GPixel/s
Shader
Processing Units
1536
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golden star golden star empty star empty star empty star
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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
1375 MHz
Memory Bus
256 Bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
176GB/sec
L2 Cache
512KB
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
0
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
0
DisplayPort Connection
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
890 MHz
Power
Max Power
250 Watts
PSU
700 Watt & 42 Amps
Power Connector
None
Recommended Hardware
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Core i7-875K Quad 2.93GHz
Best RAM Match
8 GB
Best Resolution
1920 x 1080
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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
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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.


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Cipry007's Rig
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wanna buy this, i have a 550w psu, it will work? also it requires separate alimentation? if yes is it really necesary to be pluged in ?

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how come when i click the picture of the asus 6970 the XFX HD 7950 always comes up something fishy here Oo

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My GPU is 6% better?????? WUUUUUTTT???

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overclock?

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I Want this GPU :( Was about to buy it but my PSU…….. Its only 320w :(

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Tero's Rig
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Yeah no chance :D

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On your list of games, you say you ultra war of the roses beta with 60 fps. What FPS do you achieve when you max the beta?

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Tero's Rig
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I guess you're talking to me :D
If you look closely enough, you'll notice that I got 80 FPS ;)

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Did some overclocking and I got this clocked @945MHz/1535MHz (6140 effective).
3DMark Vantage results:
Stock clocks P21781 (22126/20806), FPS (68.82/60.67)
Overclocked P22681 (23281/21184), FPS (72.64/64.08)
So I ended up with 900 more Marks (see what I did there?) and +4 FPS :D
Much to my surprise, even the CPU score rose a bit :D
I used AMD OverDrive to OC.
And for anyone who is interested, the current memory bandwidth is 196.48GB/s ;)

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alt639's Rig
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Impressive work TM :D are you going to try to push it further? ⌂

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Can't go any further (at least with AMD OverDrive)… :D
5MHz more core and the drivers crash, 5MHz more RAM speed and artifacts appear ;)

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What are the in-game improvements? ⌂

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Tero's Rig
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Haven't tried the 2 games that my rig struggles with (Witcher II & Metro 2033) yet, other games run as good as they did earlier (I use Vsync) ;)

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Same here, I hate tearing :D

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@Tero- What Problem With Metro 2033???
I Mean Your Rig IS Really Awesome So Why The Struggle???

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Metro 2033 is the most demanding game available right now. You either need a high end 28nm card or two high end 40nm cards to get it running above 60 fps at ultra settings, mainly because of the extreme quality of the DX11 effects that it uses.

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@alt639-- Sure But It Is.But Isn't Tero's Rig Good Enough To Run It Without Errors???

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Yes it can run it very well, but if he tried to use the maximum settings, it wouldn't be very playable. A GTX 580, the rough equivalent of Tero's card, gets 35 fps on average at his resolution, seen here.

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Ohk…

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Tero's Rig
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Yeah I get drops to 50 occasionally ;)

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Hey Tero, I'm sure u can go further using Sapphire Trixx by add some voltage… see if u can go 1600 Mhz.. :)

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I won't risk damaging my baby ;)

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For 3 FPS, not worth of it ;)

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Dammn people you'r crazy , now i see your rig so good exellent , and you got 50fps , becaouse you alllllll playyyyyyy on high resolution 1920 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa … I would love tooo :) , but with my res , still play on 50+ fps on ultra :) :) :)

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Tero's Rig
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Be aware that this card takes 3 expansion slots… I had to change my SATA cables to be able to fit this beast in to my rig. :D

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I see, it looks big and strong :D Have you got it stored in a mini-, mid- or full-tower? ;)

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Check my rig, I got a picture of my PC there :)
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/files/images/67/2_144360-545x729.jpeg
It's a basic case, fit in just barely :D

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Yeah basic, but it still looks nice :) I can imagine this BEAST fits in the mini tower (when I'm right…) barely, but you made it ;) Nice!

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same here…..my motherboard can handle 3 amd/ati crossfire gpus after buying this card my mobo cant handle any amd/ati gpus as this one is king of monsters….now my mobo can handle only one nvidia card…..:=)

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Tero's Rig
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I'm still thinking about overclocking this… I know I don't have to but with core set to 974MHz and RAM @ 1528MHz (found on a website) I'm curious to see what 3DMark 11 would say :D

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the msi lightning edition doesn't takes 3 slots it takes only 2 slots and it is more expensive than this but its expensive for a reason..the xfx edition of the hs 6970 is more expensive than the msi lightning edition but not more powerful than the msi one…:=)

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