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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Video Card Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Overclocking
Our overclocking tests consist of finding the maximum stable clockspeed and re-testing a select number of benchmarks to determine a level of performance gain.
The maximum card clock was 840Mhz / 1325Mhz which also happens to be the maximum allowed by CCC. At the time of this review none of the preferred overclocking programs such as Afterburner or Sapphire TriXX were available for testing.
The maximum card clock was 840Mhz / 1325Mhz which also happens to be the maximum allowed by CCC. At the time of this review none of the preferred overclocking programs such as Afterburner or Sapphire TriXX were available for testing.
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
Unigine Heaven
As you can imagine we have a healthy boost of performance across the board however the maximum performance could not be realized using the AMD Overdrive. On a positive note these clocks were completely stable for us and likely will be the case for every reference HD6950 card on the market.
