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AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 2GB graphics card review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 December 2010, 18:49 3.5

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), HiS Graphics

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DiRT2

DiRT 2, a lovely-looking racer and one of the first games to use a DX11 path offers improved visuals whilst burning through the London map.

GeForce GTX 580/570 cards' superb FP16 filtering - well, it's double that of GTX 480 - gives them a sizeable lead over the Radeon competition.

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 580  GTX 570   HD 5870  HD 6950
 Faster/slower (per cent) -22.3  -7.1  +9.5  +9.9

 

 Comparison at 25x16 GTX 570  GTX 470   HD 5870  HD 6970
 Faster/slower (per cent) -16.6  +13.4  -0.4 -9.0

It's also the first time that the venerable Radeon HD 5870 is able to sneak past the new-fangled HD 6950. But watch out for those speedy dual-GPU setups!