Radeon_HD_6970_MSI_Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition

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Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition GPU Variants

- Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 PowerColor 2GB Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Dual Fan 2GB Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 HIS IceQ 2GB Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 Asus Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 XXX Edition

- Radeon HD 6970 Lightning Edition

ATI HD 6000 Series

- Radeon HD 6990

- Radeon HD 6970

- Radeon HD 6950

- Radeon HD 6870

- Radeon HD 6850

- Radeon HD 6790

- Radeon HD 6770

- Radeon HD 6750

- Radeon HD 6750 v2

- Radeon HD 6670

- Radeon HD 6570

- Radeon HD 6670 v2

- Radeon HD 6570 v2

- Radeon HD 6450 v2

- Radeon HD 6450

- Radeon HD 6450 v4

- Radeon HD 6450 v3

- Radeon HD 6450A

- Radeon HD 6290

- Radeon HD 6350

26 Jan 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

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

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 205% better performance and can run 879 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, as it can run 745 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 139% increased graphics performance.

FPS System Benchmark

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High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

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

Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition Game FPS Benchmarks On Ultra

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

96

Texture Rate

84 GTexel/s

ROPs

32

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

No the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition graphics card is NOT a laptop and notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Yes the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition graphics card is a dedicated GPU

Integrated

No the Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition graphics card is NOT an integrated GPU

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

1

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

880 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

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Resolution Performance
1366x768	1600x900	1920x1080	2560x1440	3840x2160
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Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition is basically a renamed Radeon HD 6970 and part of the Radeon HD 6000 Series released by AMD in 2010/2011.
There are no relevant features nor any tweaks and so the performance is exactly like the standard version.
All demanding games, including very demanding one's like Metro 2033/The Witcher II will run on the highest settings.

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Radeon HD 6970 MSI Edition vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i7-4790S 4-Core 3.2GHz

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Graphics Card

Radeon R9 FURY 4GB

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RAM

11GB

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Popular Game System Requirements
Game	Min.	Rec.
Red Dead Redemption 2	30%	128%
Halo: Reach	68%	28%
Cyberpunk 2077	40%	213%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	23%	128%
Doom Eternal	11%	96%
Microsoft Flight Simulator	40%	213%
Grand Theft Auto VI	113%	248%
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot	15%	40%
Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order	57%	213%
Need For Speed Heat	28%	128%

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08:16 Sep-09-2012

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high end cards look amazing ! but mid range cards have a fan case and nothing else !

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You are one hell of a chic ;) MSI FTW!!!

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15:11 Sep-05-2012

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agreed :D

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An epic card well done MSI! =)

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Mine is better ;) :D :D

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=( but mIne is smaller! HA! =D

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and cheaper and better looking and less chunky =P

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Ok, ok :D :D

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XDD Ory 1-0 TM

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One of these days… I'll have you :D

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well that is what like 1 in 365 chance XD and that is only a year time will tell ;D

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Ahahahahahahhahahahahaa :D

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