With the HD 6950 so much cheaper than its big brother that's where the sensible money's going out of the two. At that speed you're hardly likely to really notice an 8fps drop off. Unlike the Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 there is little tangible difference in the performance of these two cards.Īcross our benchmarking suite you're looking at a maximum differential of 8fps, and that's on DiRT 2 where we're getting 85fps and 77fps respectively. The other fly in the Radeon HD 6970's ointment is the other Cayman-powered card released alongside it the Radeon HD 6950. The usual power/motherboard caveats apply here, but if you've got a compatible mobo and a hefty-enough PSU then it's still tough to look past this SLI setup. And unless you're only looking at the Metro 2033 benchmark at 2560 x 1600, the HD 6970 loses out across the board.
In this era of improved multi-GPU performance though the top-end AMD GPU is also facing off against the cheaper SLI pairing of twin GTX 460 1GB cards. There's little point comparing the HD 6970 with Nvidia's fastest though as this AMD offering is aimed at a very different market segment. The £400+ GTX 580 though is still by far the faster card, and holds on to its 'fastest single-GPU' title. Hardly something to really go shouting from the rooftops in this competitive graphics card market. The Radeon HD 6970 then is only just about keeping pace with Nvidia's top card of the last generation. The other issue here though is the GTX 570 is only a very slight redesign of the GTX 480's GPU, offering very close performance scores. Unfortunately it's also a cheaper card, which to all intents and purposes scuppers the HD 6970 at birth. So the AMD HD 6970 is trading blows with the GTX 570, which in itself is a very good card. It's very close across the rest of our benchmarking suite, but the Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 has the lead in all but those two DirectX 11 titles.Įven in Heaven the GTX 570 has the lead, albeit by a very, very narrow margin. Unfortunately for AMD, that's largely where the good news ends. It may only be by a few frames per second, but the fact that it's again faster than the competing GTX 570 is important. Moreover it was 8% slower than the GeForce GTX 580 and 14% slower than the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970.And this is really key to the HD 6970's success or lack thereof – how does it stack up against its Nvidia-coloured competition?Īs well as the Metro 2033 score, the Aliens vs Predator benchmark too makes good reading for the AMD faithful.
Predator as it averaged 48fps at 1920x1200 making it 12% faster than the GeForce GTX 570. The Radeon HD 6970 bounced back in a big way when testing with Aliens vs. The maximum possible visuals were enabled along with 4xAA/16xAF. Predator playing through a test scene in the same sequence every time for accurate results. We used the highly demanding DX11 benchmark from Alien vs. More importantly it was ~6% slower than the GeForce GTX 570 and 22% slower than the GTX 580. The Radeon HD 6970 had an average showing on Far Cry 2 as it delivered just 15% more performance than the HD 5870 making it 18% slower than the HD 5970. We ran this DirectX 10 title at maximum in-game quality settings with 8xAA. To test Far Cry 2, we used the "Action Scene" from the custom benchmark tool, which we feel is an excellent representation of real gameplay performance.
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