While AMD and NVIDIA just announced respectively their Radeon HD 6800 and GeForce GTX 580, the month of December should also be rich in novelties. Great revolution in the world of graphics cards ATI brand will disappear to make way for AMD. No panic Radeon are still in the game and the series of AMD Radeon HD 6900 brings crucial developments and innovations that will make your pleasure of endless gameplay.
The Radeon HD 6950 Eyefinity resume technology while improving, can now use up to 4 screens on one graphics card! Extend your vision in your favorite games and take advantage of a tactical advantage over your opponent. And if you're not Eyefinity player technology will allow you to rediscover still use you make of your computer. Watch a video while surfing on the internet without having to switch from one window to another, or increase your productivity by having several documents under the eyes simultaneously. The screen layout is easy with the Catalyst Control Center.
Fully compatible with DirectX 11 as the previous series, the graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6900 series have more of an improvement in the treatment of tessellation, which allows them to be more efficient while providing superior graphics rendering. With a dual tessellation engine changed, the Radeon HD 6900 series offers twice the performance than the previous generation in terms of geometric processing.
The computing power of the Radeon HD 6950 is also used for other activities as video games. Home Cinema for example, because the video acceleration engine AvivoHD you will read Blu-ray in optimal conditions. Thanks to technology HD3D you can even enjoy your blu-ray 3D. Finally the compatibility of the Radeon HD 6850 with HDMI 1.4a also ensures you enjoy an immersive sound environment thanks to compatibility standards Dolby True HD and DTS Master Audio.
Features :
- Experience uncompromising graphics and blistering performance with a new and advanced architecture featuring full support for DirectX 11 and scalable geometry processing.
- Take supreme control of the action on up to six simultaneous displays with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology.
- Supercharge your applications and experience unprecedented digital video quality with AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration.
System Requirements :
- PCI Express based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 550 Watt or greater power supply with one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connector and one 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
- Minimum 1GB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
- DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
- Blu-ray playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
- For an AMD CrossFireX system, a second AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series Graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable is required
- Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle.
Specifications :
The manufacturer has not changed the clock speeds of the two new products, thus running the Powercolor HD6970 (AX6970 2GBD5-2DH) with 880 MHz GPU clock speed and 2,750 MHz memory clock, the Powercolor HD6950 (AX6950 2GBD5-2DH) with 800 MHz GPU clock and 2500 MHz memory clock. Both models have two DVI ports, an HDMI port, and two mini-display port.
AMD has officially lifted the veil on the early models of HD 6900. The Radeon HD 6970 has a GPU from 1536 stream processors at 880 MHz, supported by 2 GB of GDDR5 memory at 5500 MHz and consumes less than 300 watts. The Radeon HD 6950, we find a GPU of 1408 stream processors at 800 MHz with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory at 5000 MHz and consuming less than 225 Watt per the connectivity, is essentially the same for both cards with support for DVI, HDMI 1.4, mini DisplayPort 1.2. The boards have Eyefinity technologies such as AMD, CrossFireX and AMD compatible HD3D. The Enhanced Anti-Aliasing Quality offers a new graphics rendering by altering new additions, dual BIOS management and PowerTune technology. Via PowerTune, the GPU is adjusted as required to maximize consumption. Unlike NVIDIA, all can be controlled by the user through the OverDrive utility for power control, plus or minus 20%. DirectX 11 compatible, the Radeon HD 6970 is announced at a price of 329 € and 269 € for the Radeon HD 6950.
As we know many GPUs share the same core, such as Radeon HD 5800 Series using the core Cypress, which had some units cleared in 2 of its lower-level models: Cypress LE (Radeon HD 5830), Cypress Pro (Radeon HD 5850), and Cypress XT (Radeon HD 5870), and the same is met in the current kernel and variants Cayman XT (Radeon HD 6970: 24 1536 SIMDs shaders ), and Cayman Pro (Radeon HD 6950: 22 1408 SIMDs shaders ), the latter being exactly the same as Cayman XT, differing only by having 2 other SIMD disabled by bios, and it is just allowing these VGAs can be flashed using the utility with bios ATI VGAs Winflash Radeon HD 6970 (remember to before backup the original bios), and start a new life as a brand-new Radeon HD 6970 thanks to softmod.
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