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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 8 reviews

Excellent:

7
Good:

1
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros

Ability to have up to 6 monitors.
2GB of GDDR5.
Quite a lot of connections.
Good performance.
Eyefinity suport, 3D-support via AMD HD3D.
Runs really quiet and cool.
Multi GPU Support.
Unrealized Overclocking.

Cons

Mediocre bundle.
Extremely Limited Overclocking.
Power Tune does not "increase" performance.
BIOS Flash microswitch.
No cooling gap for Multi GPU configurations.

By Phoronix on June 20, 2011

During the Unigine Heaven benchmarking, the Phoronix Test Suite also monitored the GPU core temperature from the binary driver for the HD 4870, HD 5770, HD 6870, and HD 6950 graphics cards. The Radeon HD 6950 temperature with the DIRT 3 cooler had an...

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By TechRadar on May 27, 2011

With the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950, we're getting into serious graphics card territory here, and inevitably that means serious money too. At over £200 that's a lot to spend on a single component if you're talking about an upgrade...

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By ThinkComputers on December 21, 2010

It is good to see AMD get the 6900 series cards out before Christmas and before the end of the year, but where does the HD 6950 really stand. With the price point of $300 it puts itself in between NVIDIA’s GTX 470 and GTX 570. Now in our testing...

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By Bjorn3D on December 15, 2010

The new Cayman architecture from AMD shows a great improvement where Cypress lacked. Tessellation was one of the areas where Cypress was unable to compete against Nvidia's Fermi, and the latest Cayman has at least levelled the playing field...

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By Ninjalane on December 15, 2010

Do good things come to those who wait? If you are looking for the latest in GPU technology from AMD then yes, you have made the right choice. Of course If you are looking for the fastest card AMD has to offer, then you might want to look at the...

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By Hi Tech Legion on December 14, 2010

Overall, the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 is a very good card. It's price point is poised to take over the spot that the 5870 holds currently. The numbers, indeed, justify that is a good spot for it to be. I was a bit skeptical about the new numbering...

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By Modders-Inc on December 14, 2010

Following closely behind the release of the 6800 series of video cards AMD is releasing their next and more powerful set of cards, the 6900's. Using the Cayman GPU we are hoping to a nice increase so lets check it out.Page 1 - First Look and...

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By Alt om DATA on April 19, 2012

HD 6950 synes at være det bedste grafikkort, har produceret i lang tid. Blandt kort til under 2.000 kroner er det så godt, som det kan blive. Det er et grafikkort, der giver meget mere end nogen af konkurrenterne i denne prisklasse.HD 6950...

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By freeocen.de on May 18, 2011

Die Sapphire HD6950 hat ein enormes Potenzial an Leistung.Auch in Sachen Overclocking braucht sie sich nicht zu verstecken.Alle ermittelten Werte haben uns davon überzeugt, dass man hier eine Top Grafikkarte zu kaufen bekommt.Für knappe 200...

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By Hardware.Info on April 17, 2011

Vaak lukt het Sapphire om net wat scherper geprijsd te zijn dan de concurrentie en als we puur afgaan op de laagste prijs is dat nu ook het geval. Voor 224 euro vind je de kaart al bij de goedkoopste online shop. Heel wat minder dan...

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