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AMD Radeon HD 6950 Pro Reviews

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HEXUS‘s review Edit Like Unlike

AMD's Radeon HD 6950 1GB graphics card's arrival is an obvious move to scupper NVIDIA's plans for performance leadership at the £200 price point. Looking very much like its 2GB-equipped counterpart and performing nigh-on identically in a wide range of benchmarks, the 1GB card is a sensible choice if your budget is absolutely limited to said £200. Faster than an out-of-the-box NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti and based on solid technology, we can recommend the Radeon HD 6950 1GB if you play most of your games at a full-HD resolution.

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Feb 15, 2011

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techPowerUp!‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Overall, what matters most is that AMD now has a real alternative to fight NVIDIA's GTX 560 in the $250 market segment. For budget oriented gamers the choice is now HD 6950 1 GB or GTX 560 Ti. Modding the card to HD 6970 also seems possible, making this a nice toy for tweakers and overclockers.

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Mar 29, 2011

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hardocp‘s review Edit Like Unlike

As it stands there is no better value than Radeon HD 6950 GPU based video cards in this "sweet spot" of ~$249. The Radeon HD 6950 GPU has proven to be a powerhouse for gaming, and now you have two different pricing options. The 1GB models are undercutting the GTX 560 Ti right now, and the 2GB models compete with the factory overclocked GTX 560 Ti cards. In all our gaming experience with all three video cards, there is no better value than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB video card right now. The inclusion of the 1GB Radeon HD 6950 just gives gamers one more option. If you are gaming at 1920x1200 or lower, and are on a budget, get the 1GB version. If you love the high levels AA eye candy, or game at higher resolutions go for the 6950 2GB model.

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Feb 24, 2011

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Fast, good-value and overclockable - this is the best card to buy for under £200.

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Mar 20, 2011

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tweaktown‘s review Edit Like Unlike

You're going to have people that argue 2GB is a must have for these higher end cards and while in some instances it might be nice, you can see that at even 2560 x 1600 there doesn't really seem to be any difference. In the end, for the price you're able to get two of these 1GB models for, you'd be crazy to spend more on a single card solution that carries more memory, because it just wouldn't be faster. This is just a really good setup for people who want some serious performance and don't want to have to worry about gaming at just about any resolution.

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Mar 21, 2011

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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

AMD had other plans and released the 1GB variant of the Cayman-based Radeon HD 6950 at basically the same $259 price point. The 6950 1GB offers better performance than the GTX 560 Ti in most of our real-world gaming tests, though the results are close most of the time, while using just a little bit less power while doing it. I have questions about the lifespan and inventory levels of the 6950 1GB but they will only be addressed over time and we are going to have to trust AMD to keep its word with the release. NVIDIA might have a distaste for the timely release of the HD 6950 1GB but for gamers, the more the merrier.

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Jan 25, 2011

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AnandTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

First and foremost we have the newly launched Radeon HD 6950 1GB. Having 2GB of VRAM does have its advantages, but at this point in time there aren’t any games that can exploit this advantage at the common resolutions of 1920x1200, 1920x1080, or 1680x1050. It’s only once we get to 2560x1600 or similarly large Eyefinity resolutions that we see the 1GB 6950 fall behind its 2GB counterpart. In the long run (e.g. a year or longer) I believe having that extra 1GB of VRAM is going to make a difference at resolutions like 1920x1200, but amidst my prognostics we’re effectively making an argument on the futureproofness of a product, which is a difficult argument to make even in the best of times.

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Jan 25, 2011

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hardwarecanucks‘s review Edit Like Unlike

For the market it competes in, the HD 6950 1GB is priced to move and performs extremely well. It does have its fair share of negative points but we have to remember that AMD’s aim for this card was to provide an alternative to the reference GTX 560 Ti. And in our opinion they succeeded beyond most people’s expectations.

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Jan 24, 2011

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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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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The HD 6950 finds itself standing with a $50 radius around it making it not only the perfect card for your $300 budget, but the only one; at least for now. Again we saw performance results vary between beating out the lower price GTX 470 and nearly competing with the higher priced GTX 570 so it fell right where we expected it to. CrossFire scaling was very impressive for this generation and we expect more improvements as the generation matures. And even though the AMD 6900-series appears to have lost much of the performance / watt advantages that the HD 6800 and 5800-series of cards' had, the performance results are good enough to make this a successful launch.

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Dec 14, 2010

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AnandTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Radeon HD 6950 occupies an interesting spot. Above it is the 570/6970, below it are the soon to be discontinued GTX 470 and Radeon HD 5870. These cards were a bit of a spoiler for the GTX 570, and this is once more the case for the 6950. The 6950 is on average 7-10% faster than the 5870 for around 20% more. I am becoming increasingly convinced that more than 1GB of VRAM is necessary for any new cards over $200, but we’re not quite there yet. When the 5870 is done and gone the 6950 will be a reasonable successor.

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Dec 15, 2010

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TechSpot‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Radeon HD 6950 provides a middle ground of sorts, with a price tag of $299. At 1920x1200 (1920x1080) resolution which is continuing to grow in popularity, the Radeon HD 6950 was on average 10% slower than the HD 6970, which makes it a very good value as it's also 18% cheaper.

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Dec 27, 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. If it was our money at stake, dear reader, we'd look past the HD 6970 and go for the HD 6950, especially if you can grab one at around £220.

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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

AMD Radeon HD 6950 sits dead last in our benchmarks and testing, but it just might be our favourite card of the bunch. It manages to stay fairly competitive with graphics cards that are more expensive, while offering a versatile array of display support and power efficiency. The GeForce GTX 570 will only set you back an extra few pounds, but keep the Radeon HD 6950's benefits in mind before you buy.

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Dec 20, 2010

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hardwaresecrets‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Radeon HD 6950 presents a better bang for the buck, being a nice replacement for the Radeon HD 5870, with similar performance in most games, but with improved performance on DirectX 11 games.

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Dec 16, 2010

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overclockersclub‘s review Edit Like Unlike

With the second 6000 series cards you get Morphological AA and Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing that uses very little overhead. 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. The HD 6950 looks to play in the field just under the level of the GTX 570 and the outgoing HD 5870 and in that domain it hits the mark and delivers the performance to hold this area for now.

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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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PC Magazine‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Priced at just under $300, the AMD Radeon HD 6950 would seem well poised to capture the cost-conscious sensible-enthusiast market, but this video card doesn't offer the performance to turn heads.

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Dec 15, 2010

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Being able to spit out performance at almost the same levels as a £300 card is darned impressive for a card this close to £200. Admittedly if we had the cash we'd go for the GTX 570, but this is definitely the next card down. The 2GB frame buffer means that this is a mid-range card that can compete at the higher end of the resolution spectrum. There's unsurprisingly very little to dislike about this Cayman card; it's pretty big and that's about as negative as I can get!

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Dec 15, 2010

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PC Pro‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Value is the Radeon HD 6950’s trump card, and at £187 exc VAT it undercuts the GTX 570 by a considerable margin and matches AMD’s previous flagship – the 6870 – for price while outperforming it. We still think the Nvidia card represents the best compromise between cost and power, but for those on tighter budgets the HD 6950 makes a very tempting alternative.

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Dec 15, 2010

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hardwarecanucks‘s review Edit Like Unlike

While the HD 6970 does compete very well in the upper end of the price spectrum, the real star of this show is the HD 6950. Currently, there isn’t anything that even comes close to matching its capabilities in the $299 market. Performance is well above that of the $270 GTX 470 and even AMD’s previous single GPU flagship –the HD 5870- struggles to keep pace; particularly when AA is enabled. To our way of thinking, this is the closest thing to perfection we have seen for a while.

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Dec 14, 2010

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Tom's Hardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Let’s start with the Radeon HD 6950. While it’s true that Cayman seems to be a more forward-looking DirectX 11 architecture than Cypress, and the ability to use four independent display outputs is good (as is Blu-ray 3D support), it’s still hard to ignore the fact that vendors are clearing out inventory of the Radeon HD 5870, available for as little as $260 after rebates

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Dec 15, 2010

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

A powerful card for a very reasonable price, the HD 6950 is a great choice for any keen gamer.

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Dec 15, 2010

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