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Product Code: 90-C3CHE0-S0UAY0YZ, EAH6970/2DI2S/2GD5 The Asus EAH6970 is a graphics card based on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics processor. Performance-wise, the HD 6970 fits right in between the HD 5870 and the HD 5970. The Asus EAH6970 is a differ...
The Asus EAH6970 is priced at £297. If you look at a price performance comparison, then the Zotac GTX 580 gives about 15% more performance for about £400. So, really it's basically a question of whether you want to put down the extra £100 for the GTX...
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£299.37The release of AMD's new line-up of graphics cards has to be one of the most hyped up technological release this year, especially amongst gamers and enthusiasts alike. And there is good reason for this, the HD58XX series proved to be a success...
Good performance, Pre-overclocked, Improved tessellation and AA performance, Cool and quiet operation, Eyefinity support, Well packaged, Aesthetically pleasing, Voltage Tweaking support...
Power consumption, Weak bundle, Overclocking headroom, Not on par with equivalent Nvidia graphics card...
When Cayman was first announced, it promised new heights and performance and enthusiast forums were amassed with hype. After all, the previous generation Cypress GPU had delivered high end performance at such a relatively low price point that Nvidia c...
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The 69XX series has been out for a while now and the powerful HD 6970 is no secret. In fact, ASUS has released a few models of the HD 6970, one of which is equipped with a three-slot cooler. Today, we will be looking at ASUS's slightly overclocked ref...
Price/Performance, Eyefinity, Good Cooler...
Loud Fan!...
The Cayman XT equipped ASUS HD 6970 offered a great deal of performance for its $379 price tag. Even with its 10Mhz factory overclock it performed very similarly to the reference HD 6970 design. This of course makes sense because 10Mhz isn't that larg...
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Back in February , we took a look at the first AMD 28nm GPU, the 'Tahiti'-based Radeon HD 7970. As the first card utilizing AMD's next generation GPU architecture, GCN (Graphics Core Next), as well as the first card based on a GPU with a 28nm process tech...
ASUS or Sapphire?While both of these cards are based on the same high-end GPU, they represent opposite ends of the spectrum in their manufacturer's approach. Compared to the reference card, ASUS has gone all out, beefing up the card, changing the configur...
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The Asus EAH6970 (based, of course, on the ) is a different kind of beast. While the was a graphics card with two cores, the HD6970 comes with just the one (albeit a very powerful one). Don't worry if AMD's numbering confuses you, it confused the hell...
Very Good Performance, 2GB Video Memory, Plenty of Ports...
Runs Very Hot at Full Load...
The Asus EAH6970 is the best performing single GPU graphics card based on AMD's Radeon line-up...
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Lately there has been a steady flow of new videocards from both AMD and NVIDIA. It seems as if every other week, manufacturers are coming out with slightly tweaked models that out-performs the competition's offerings. ASUS has released a replacement f...
Great performance, Output options are vast, Easily overtakes previous tier of cards...
Factory overclock is laughable...
As detailed in our HD6950 and HD 6970 article, we mentioned that the 6970 features dual graphics engines, each with its own tessellator, vertex assembler, and geometry assembler. These imrovements over the lower tier of cards really shows in the perfo...
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These graphics cards look great, run fairly quiet, and offer some strong gaming performance out of the box, improving considerably upon the Radeon 6800 series cards. And with the voltage tweaking ability, the overclocking potential is impressive. Of the two cards, the 6950 offers better temperatures, power consumption, and gaming value. The 6970 is a strong card as well but succumbs to the GTX 57...
As we saw in testing, both the ASUS 6950 and 6970 are very capable gaming cards and will provide sufficient horsepower in modern game titles. The voltage tweaking ability is an important selling point to many enthusiasts when deciding which manufacture...
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techreaction.net Updated: 2011-08-17 04:42:57
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The codename “Cayman” represents the 6900 series of cards from AMD. The refined GPU boasts of more performance per mm², new and improved image quality features, enhanced multimedia acceleration and next-generation display technology with HDMI 1.4a an...
The ASUS Radeon HD 6970 had a solid performance in all of the tests that we put it through. It really shines in the stock temperature tests and power consumption tests. Being one of the coolest cards and lowest power consuming cards we have tested so...
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The HD6970 series from AMD is a pretty good performer. It's rendered the HD6870 obsolete and, as we showed the other day, in Crossfire it rocks so hard it's unbelievable.Today we're back looking at another single reference card, although this time from...
We could go on testing endless reams of games, but as we've already tested three HD6970s and there isn't a noticeable difference between any of them then we're sure that at this festive time of year your time is too precious to see multiple graphs that al...
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We have been hearing rumblings about the products we’ll be showing you today, which are based on AMD’s next-gen “Cayman” GPU, for months now. In fact, back in October we were able to leak a tiny bit of official information in our coverage of the AMD Ra...
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