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Asus Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 4 reviews

Excellent:

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Good:

2
Average:

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Bad:

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Pros

Very Good Performance, 2GB Video Memory, Plenty of Ports
Great performance, Output options are vast, Easily overtakes previous tier of cards

Cons

Runs Very Hot at Full Load
Factory overclock is laughable

By Overclockers Club on March 31, 2011

The Cayman XT equipped ASUS HD 6970 offered a great deal of performance for its $379 price tag. Even with its 10Mhz factory overclock it performed very similarly to the reference HD 6970 design. This of course makes sense because 10Mhz isn't that...

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By PC Advisor on February 07, 2011

The Asus EAH6970 is priced at £297. If you look at a price performance comparison, then the Zotac GTX 580 gives about 15% more performance for about £400. So, really it's basically a question of whether you want to put down the extra...

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By PCWorld India on February 07, 2011

The Asus EAH6970 is the best performing single GPU graphics card based on AMD's Radeon line-up....

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By Bjorn3D on January 31, 2011

As detailed in our HD6950 and HD 6970 article, we mentioned that the 6970 features dual graphics engines, each with its own tessellator, vertex assembler, and geometry assembler. These imrovements over the lower tier of cards really shows in the...

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By Pureoverclock on January 21, 2011

As we saw in testing, both the ASUS 6950 and 6970 are very capable gaming cards and will provide sufficient horsepower in modern game titles. The voltage tweaking ability is an important selling point to many enthusiasts when deciding which...

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By TechReaction.net on January 18, 2011

The ASUS Radeon HD 6970 had a solid performance in all of the tests that we put it through. It really shines in the stock temperature tests and power consumption tests. Being one of the coolest cards and lowest power consuming cards we have tested so...

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By Vortez on December 27, 2010

When Cayman was first announced, it promised new heights and performance and enthusiast forums were amassed with hype. After all, the previous generation Cypress GPU had delivered high end performance at such a relatively low price point that Nvidia...

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By Overclock3D on December 21, 2010

We could go on testing endless reams of games, but as we've already tested three HD6970s and there isn't a noticeable difference between any of them then we're sure that at this festive time of year your time is too precious to see multiple...

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By svethardware.cz on February 24, 2011

Asus Radeon HD 6970 představuje alespoň prozatím tu nejrychlejší grafickou kartu poslední generace, kterou lze u AMD koupit. Teď trochu mlžím, neboť zde stále existuje prozatím vůbec...

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By Hardware Upgrade on January 28, 2011

Il mercato delle schede video di fascia alta, quelle che appassionano i videogiocatori più esigenti, è stato caratterizzato nel corso degli ultimi mesi da numerosi annunci che hanno visto AMD e NVIDIA battagliarsi a suon di novità. La...

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