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AMD Radeon HD 6970 Pro Reviews

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HotHardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Both the Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950 should be hitting your favorite e-tailers immediately with MSRPs of $369 and $299, respectively. In light of our benchmark results, the Radeon HD 6970 may be priced just a tad high, but the more flexible output configuration with Eyefinity support and the large 2GB frame buffer warrant a small premium.

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Dec 15, 2010

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motherboards‘s review Edit Like Unlike

It is pretty clear that two HD 6970s in Crossfire mode, when paired with a high-end system can have up to 100% performance increase from a single card. Two of these cards will run you over $740, making it competitive with itself as the competition from NVIDIA is either priced higher or has lower performance. This solution is not for the faint of heart but ultimately, two HD 6970s in Crossfire mode offer high performance, great features and higher image quality settings than the single solution. Our results showed an increase from 33-95% depending on the application and its CrossFire support, but this is a costly setup to get into.

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Jan 12, 2011

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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The new AMD Cayman architecture is finally out and while the performance of the cards didn't blow us (or the NVIDIA GTX 500-series cards) away, they did bring improved single-GPU performance for the AMD product stack. The Radeon HD 6970 2GB card offers the largest frame buffer for a single GPU solution (512MB more than the GTX 580) and with the architectural improvements brought about with the VLIW4 design, updated tessellation engines and AA enhancements, it is able to keep pace and beat the GTX 570 from NVIDIA in many places and nearly match the much more expensive GTX 580. That puts the HD 6970 in a very competitive situation in terms of performance per dollar.

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Dec 14, 2010

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AnandTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Often it’s not until the last moment that we have all the information in hand to completely analyze a new video card. The Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950 were no different. Our concern was that AMD would shoot themselves in the foot by pricing the Radeon HD 6970 in particular at too high a price. Longer term we will have to see how AMD’s computing gamble plays out. Though we’ve largely framed Cayman in terms of gaming, to AMD Cayman is first and foremost a compute GPU, in a manner very similar to another company whose compute GPU is also the fastest gaming GPU on the market.

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Dec 15, 2010

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TechSpot‘s review Edit Like Unlike

When we tested the GeForce GTX 570 last week we suggested that any potential buyers were better off holding back for a week until they could see what AMD had in store with the Radeon HD 6970. As it turns out, they have developed a remarkably similar product in terms of performance and efficiency. Considering that we really liked the GeForce GTX 570, it goes without saying that we are also fond of the Radeon HD 6970. Both provide an exceptional level of performance and value, making the choice between those two both easy and difficult at the same time. You can't go wrong either way though.

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Dec 15, 2010

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HEXUS‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Ultimately, the Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 are good GPUs that come to market a little too late. A September 2010 launch would have been ideal, along with a little more perf, but the re-emergence of NVIDIA as a high-end GPU force and the benchmark level set by the year-old Cypress GPU makes them, in December 2010, more average than special. Cayman, then, is more of a transitional architecture than epoch-making graphics card.

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Dec 15, 2010

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hardocp‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Both of these new AMD GPUs look to be incredible values. Never before has any GPU delivered so much gaming performance at such a low cost. If you have been waiting for the time to upgrade and are more than a generation back, that upgrade time has now come. The AMD Radeon HD 6950 and AMD Radeon HD 6970 are both tremendous values.

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Dec 14, 2010

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PC Advisor‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Nvidia keeps the performance crown, but the AMD Radeon HD 6970 offers up an impressive, well-rounded value that's tough to beat.

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Dec 20, 2010

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hardwaresecrets‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Summarizing our conclusions: the Radeon HD 6970 has the GeForce GTX 570 as a strong competitor, and which one is the fastest will depend on the game and video configuration you use.

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Dec 16, 2010

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tweaktown‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The HD 6970 is a good card and in single form it's a good setup already. In Crossfire you've got two good cards that create a great setup, and that's because AMD has done such a fantastic job when it comes to Crossfire.

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Dec 17, 2010

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overclockersclub‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Many will be disappointed that the HD 6970 did not come out and just lay the smack down on the GTX 580. But if you can get performance that close for a price tag that's $150 less expensive you have a win. In that respect, I think AMD hit the mark.

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Dec 14, 2010

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www.legitreviews.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The AMD Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 video cards bring new features and better performance to the table with a price point and level of performance that is competitive with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 500 series of cards.

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Dec 14, 2010

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benchmarkreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

In summary, the Radeon HD 6970 matches performance, temperatures, and power consumption very closely with the GeForce GTX 570. Based on the $370 MSRP. it would be great to see the price come down $20-30 to more closely compete against the GeForce GTX 570, especially considering that HD3D and Fusion technology are yet to tip the scales in AMD's favor. Still, products like the AMD Radeon HD 6970 introduces more flexibility for display devices, especially where multi-monitor Eyefinity is used.

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Dec 15, 2010

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PC Magazine‘s review Edit Like Unlike

With its Radeon HD 6970 video card, AMD introduces some exciting competition in the sub-$400 video card space. But if you want the fastest card out there in this price range, the 6970 is not consistently it.

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Dec 15, 2010

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The speed boost over the previous generation's HD 5870 is impressive and shows the improvements of the AMD architecture, specifically at DirectX 11 gaming benchmarks. The big problem again for AMD is the fact that Nvidia has already brought out a faster single-GPU card that beats it hands down in the GTX 580. There's also the GTX 570 as another spoiler card, which has forced AMD to bring the HD 6970 out at a cheaper price than it wanted and still has a few FPS over it in performance terms.

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Dec 15, 2010

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PC Pro‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Overall, the AMD Radeon HD 6970 is impressive, but it doesn’t quite do enough to take over from Nvidia at the graphics card top table. The price is too similar to the GTX 570, the noise levels higher, efficiency lower and overall performance slower. AMD needs to do better than this to grab its crown back.

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Dec 15, 2010

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hardwarecanucks‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Both the HD 6970 and HD 6950 are incredibly enticing but the HD 6970 in particular isn’t without its faults. Unfortunately, AMD aimed these cards at NVIDIA products that have either been discontinued (the GTX 480) or will be replaced in very short order (the GTX 470). This leads to the HD 6970 fighting an uphill battle at the most popular resolutions against a lower priced yet similarly performing GTX 570.

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Dec 14, 2010

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Tom's Hardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Radeon HD 6970 should be selling for $20 more than a GTX 570. Based on its display outputs alone, that makes AMD’s card worth the Andrew Jackson to me, personally. Otherwise, the two cards trade blows, with the GTX 570 faring better at 1680x1050 as AMD’s Radeon HD 6970 retains more of its performance at 2560x1600.

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Dec 15, 2010

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

An incredibly powerful card at an impressively reasonable price, its only competition comes from the cheaper HD 6950.

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Dec 15, 2010

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