Unfortunately, we can't quite say we liked the card for its silence as our overclock, modest as it was, made it go really loud. We used auto fan rpm throughout the test. Our overclock involved Sapphire TriXX tweak utility but since the card does not support voltage tweaking, TriXX's voltage sliders were unusable. Reference GPUs run at 880MHz and we managed to push it by another 65MHz, to 945MHz. Overclocking capabilities of Sapphire HD 6970 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam is comparable to most other HD 6970 cards.
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Power Supply: CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).ĬPU: Core i7 965 XE (Intel EIST and Vdrop enabled) The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Hynix (model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C). HD 6970 Battlefield comes with a total of 2048MB video memory.
Beneath the hood is the Vapor Chamber and a large aluminum heatsink. HD 6970 relies on Vapor Chamber technology for GPU cooling. HD 6970 cards needs one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-Express power connector whereas HD 6950 need two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors. Idle TDP is set at 20W for the both cards. Note that for the HD 6970, Typical Gaming Power is set at 190W, and for the HD 6950 typical gaming power is set at 140W. AMD is currently using three different TDP values and calls them PowerTune Maximum Power, Typical Gaming Power and, of course, Typical Idle Power. The TDP, something that has been quite a hot topic recently, is set at 200W for the HD 6950. The PowerTune feature looks similar to a gimmick used by Nvidia on its GTX 580 card and it looks like this one locks the HD 6970's maximum TDP at 250W. If you don't flash the card successfully, all you need to do is move the switch to revert to default bios. Setting 1 is unprotected for user updates, while setting 2 is the protected factory default mode. The card also features a dual-bios toggle switch that makes bios updates a breeze. This means that you can use four cards in a 4-way CrossFire. Unlike the HD 6800, HD 6900 comes with two CrossFire connectors. As far as sound goes, HDMI 1.4a provides Dolby True HD, DTS-HD, AC-3, DTS and up to 7.1 channel audio with 192KHz/24bit output. To do this you will need either a Multi Stream Transport hub or DisplayPort equipped monitors that support daisy chaining of the monitors together. By using DisplayPort outputs it’s possible to chain up to six monitors to a single card. The I/O panel features two DisplayPort 1.2 connectors, HDMI 1.4a and two DVI connectors (one of them is single-link with a maximum resolution of 1920x1200).
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Unlike HD 6800 boards, HD 6900 series features a backplate, much like HD 5800/5900 series cards, which is probably used to keep PCB from flexing due to the large heatsink used under the shroud. The cooler looks similar to the one used on HD 6800 cards. The card uses dual slot cooling and the card is 27.3cm long (10.75 inches). Sapphire HD 6970 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam is no different from the reference HD 6970, except for the sticker. Sapphire was never the company to skimp on gifts and the provided accessories now include a 1.7m HDMI cable, mini-DisplayPort-to-DisplayPort dongle dual molex-to-8pin and molex-to-6-pin dongles, CrossFireX bridge, DVI-to-VGA dongle and of course download voucher for Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam. HD 6970 BFBG2 Vietnam Special Edition comes in a Battlefield themed aluminum case, which can later be used to keep cables or connectors. This means that all stream processing units have equal capabilities.
Cayman is built in 40nm and the new architecture is based on VLIW4 design. Radeon HD 6970 succeeded HD 5870 on AMD's single-GPU throne and it competes against Nvidia's Geforce GTX 570.Īs far as clocks go, HD 6970 BFBC2 kept the reference ones. Both cards are based on the new Cayman GPU, AMD's second DirectX 11 GPU. HD 6900 series launched on December 15th and currently offers HD 6970 and HD 6950 cards.
We wrote about HD 6970 Battlefield Special Edition back in December, here,so today we'll dissect it for your reading pleasure. " Special Edition" means that the card comes in an aluminum case, whereas "Gaming Edition" comes in a standard, cardboard box. As the name suggests, the card comes with a gift - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. Our today's test subject is Sapphire's HD 6970 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Special Edition graphics card.
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