XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCIe

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Pros:

Relatively Affordable, Fast Gaming, Build quality, Decent Price for AMD's leading card at this time.

Cons:

Drivers still immature; priced too high relative to the competition.
Reference Cooler tends to be louder than aftermarket coolers, Not worth the upgrade for anything higher than an HD 5850.

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Last revision on January 26, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Relatively Affordable, Fast Gaming, Build quality, Decent Price for AMD's leading card at this time

Reviewers Didn't Like

Drivers still immature; priced too high relative to the competition
Reference Cooler tends to be louder than aftermarket coolers, Not worth the upgrade for anything higher than an HD 5850

Expert reviews and ratings

We’re not sure why this card isn’t faster than it is. In many ways, it’s two HD 6870s built onto one chip, but overall throughput may be hobbled by having only 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface. Overall performance is nowhere near...

By Maximum PC on February 09, 2011

They say that a year is a long time in graphics. In terms of the improvements we’re seeing with these XFX cards, it seems like the year lasted way longer than 12 months. As the leaves started to fall from the trees back in August, both the HD5850 and...

By Kitguru.net on December 15, 2010

The graphics cards we have reviewed today are interesting not only for their performance (we already know what to expect from such products from our earlier tests) but also for their temperature and noise characteristics. The two cards from XFX,...

By X-bit Labs on August 22, 2011

XFX's reference based version HD 6970 performs exactly like any other reference version at the time of release. Although there was a lot of high expectations for this card, in the end it can be summed up as a mixed bag of good and under-whelming....

By TweakNews on December 15, 2010

of 2010)The closing weeks of 2010 have proven to be quite an exciting time in the graphics business. After Nvidia successfully launched the GTX 580, surprising many observers who did not expect such a successful revision of the massive Fermi core,...

By Fudzilla on December 15, 2010

Every year NVIDIA and AMD release new video cards to sell. NVIDIA fired the first shot with the GeForce GTX 580 just a short while ago. AMD launched their Evergreen family of video cards late last year with the RADEON HD 5870 and its...

By Motherboards.org on December 15, 2010