HIS 6950 Fan 2GB Pro Reviews

The HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 has some very interesting specifications and features. However, we’d hoped for slightly better performance than this. Given the price difference between this and the 6870, the latter still looks to be the better value choice for those shopping at the £175-£250 price point.

Pick up one HIS HD 6950 2GB and you won't be disappointed. Pick up two, though, and you'll be ecstatic. There's some serious performance here when you throw two of these bad boys together and you're really going to appreciate the frame rates later down the track. We said that the single HD 6950 painted only part of the picture; consider another part now painted and let's just say that the picture is looking great.

AMD's new Radeon HD 6900 series is a disappointment to users who expected HD 5970 or GTX 580 performance levels from the new series. The new VLIW4 shader design can not make a huge performance impact as some have guessed, but it opens up a lot of room for die size and transistor optimization which effectively makes the GPU cheaper to produce, the cards cheaper to buy - more performance for your hard earned Dollar. Radeon HD 6950 seems to have found itself a nice patch of no man's land between the tightly-packed $220~$260 price-band; and the $330~$360 band. We know this is a performance-thru-enthusiast segment product with the capability to run any DirectX 11 game at full HD resolution; yet it doesn't really impress us in any area. The reasons largely have to do with how consumers and we ourselves are seeing the HD 6950. We tend to try hard to pit the HD 6950 as a competitor to GTX 570, which is where the analyses tend to go wrong.