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I’ve added 3DMark11 to our test suite as it is the latest and greatest benchmark from Futuremark. This is the first 3DMark to fully support DirectX 11 features including Tessellation and other features. In terms of performance, the 6950 should be very close to a GeForce GTX 570 and the HD 6970 as AMD disabled two of the SIMDs on the 6970 and provided a slightly lower memory clock speed to get this chip.
Test System
- ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard
- 24GB Kingston DDR3-1866MHz memory
- Thermaltake SpinQ CPU cooler
- GIGABYTE HD 6950 RV-695D5-2GD-B running Catalyst 10.12 Preview drivers
- Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition
- Cooler Master 1100 UCP Ultimate Circuit Protection Power Supply
Tests
- Uningine Heaven benchmark 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark
- Just Cause 2 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark
- Aliens Versus Predator 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
- Dirt2 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark
- 3DMark11 Performance preset
Gigabyte is one of the most solid companies in the PC industry and today we take a look at their all new RADEON HD-6950, here in time for the holidays!
