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Gigabyte AMD RADEON HD 6950 2GB: Review and Benchmarks

2010-12-15
hey what's over it up in YouTube land Elric Fair is here on the tech of tomorrow YouTube channel well today the cat says hello hello to everybody out there new to lamb wave with them oh I guess she doesn't like that very much all right we'll check it out there's been a new launch by AMD and it's the new 69 series today we're going to take a look at the gigabyte HD 69 50 so follow along as we show you all the specifications how it compares against the other cards what it cost and at the end of the day whether it's worth your money at the end user let's check this out okay the new AMD Radeon 69 series features a dual graphic image of the Nuvi liw 4 core architecture which you can see illustrated here it also has a fast turn 56-bit gddr5 memory interface AMD has busted out some new features here which is an enhanced quality anti-aliasing err eqa a and there's three types supported adaptive anti-aliasing super sample anti-aliasing and the new morphological anti-aliasing features you also see the new AMD power tune technology now what this does is this either increases your performance by 20% or decreases your performance by 20% whether you're in gaming or non gaming mode this is pretty cool because it actually can make your computer save energy when you're not in gaming mode the card also features fifth generation vapor cooling now that the vapor cooling does is it helps get all of the heat away from the GPU now for efficiency in acoustics this makes the card run cool and also keeps it from being very loud in your PC for those of you guys into the Eyefinity technology this card supports up to six monitors out of one card here in this illustration you can see how this is done okay so here we go onto the features of the new HD 6950 it's got a core clock speed of 800 megahertz it's got stream processors of 22 SIMD text units are 88 with a frame buffer once again it's 2 gigabytes of gddr5 the memory width is also once again a 256-bit memory interface the power tune maximum limit is 200 watts the typical gaming power when gaming is 140 watts and idle power is 20 watts this card requires just a 6 pin and a 6 pin power connector and it also features two DVI to mini display ports in an HDMI connector okay so you see the scores the new HD 6950 actually is a card that has a niche of its own it's below the 416 470 but it's below the gtx 570 it's also a little bit cheaper this card comes in at about 320 dollars so for all the features all the great warranty stuff that you get from gigabyte at the end of the day I give this a editors choice product here on the tech of tomorrow YouTube channel
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