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Getting one of these Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition graphics cards allows the gamer to run indie system requirements and some less demanding AAA titles. In today’s PC hardware terms these are considered middle range for gaming performance. Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which is 183% more powerful and can run 800 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB, which has 131% better performance and can run 716 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

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

Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

90 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

30 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 Lightning 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

940 MHz

Power

Max Power

250 Watts

PSU

550 Watt & 34 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
-	8.9	7	5.2	-

Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6970 Lightning 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 Lightning Edition and Radeon HD 6970 appears to be the core clock, which was raised from 880MHz to 940MHz.
Benchmarks indicate a 6% 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 I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

161%

RAM

13GB

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Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition Extras

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Variants

AMD HD 6000 Series

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