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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Video Card Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Benchmarking Info
The system as it was tested
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz
Thermaltake SpinQ VT
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Core i7 920 @ 3.8Ghz
Thermaltake SpinQ VT
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Drivers
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 (Catalyst 10.12)
GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB RAM (Forceware 258.96)
Radeon HD 5870(Catalyst 10.3a)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 SOC 1280MB RAM (Forceware 258.96)
GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB RAM (Forceware 258.96)
Radeon HD 5870(Catalyst 10.3a)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 SOC 1280MB RAM (Forceware 258.96)
Normally we would use a little software program called FRAPS to collect game data however it was decided for this review that we would stick to the synthetics, mainly 3DMark 11, 3DMark Vantage, and Unigine Heaven. There won't be any gameplay data in this review but that is not to say it won't be added at a later time.
Benchmarks are next.
Benchmarks are next.
