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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 20% (211th of 715)

Based on 9,594 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6718 Model: AMD Radeon HD 6900
Poor: 17%Average: 20% Great: 22%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD HD 6970 averaged 79.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 25.5fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 19.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 6970 is just 4.84%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 6970 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 30.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 27.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 9,594 samples)
Rank 21120%
Min Avg Max
20.1 Lighting 25.5 29.3
27.3 Reflection 30.4 32
24.6 Parallax 27.1 29.1
20.7% 27.6 fps
Min Avg Max
22.3 MRender 24.4 25.5
23.7 Gravity 26.2 27.1
17.6 Splatting 19.3 20
18.7% 23.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 2370) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
25.5% Poor
Lighting 34.8
Reflection 32.3
Parallax 31.6
28% 32.9 fps
MRender 25.8
Gravity 28.1
Splatting 20.7
20% 24.9 fps
Asus(1043 03B8) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
20.1% Poor
Lighting 25.3
Reflection 30.7
Parallax 27.4
21% 27.8 fps
MRender 25.1
Gravity 26.6
Splatting 19.7
19% 23.8 fps
Sapphire(174B E182) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
19.8% Very poor
Lighting 25.1
Reflection 29.9
Parallax 26.9
20% 27.3 fps
MRender 24.2
Gravity 26.2
Splatting 19.1
19% 23.2 fps
XFX(1682 3130) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
19.8% Very poor
Lighting 25
Reflection 30.3
Parallax 26.9
20% 27.4 fps
MRender 24.3
Gravity 26.3
Splatting 19.4
19% 23.3 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
13.6% Very poor
Lighting 25.2
Reflection 30.4
Parallax 27
20% 27.5 fps
Asus(1043 03BC) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0
11.8% Very poor
Lighting 17.4
Reflection 22.4
Parallax 15.4
14% 18.4 fps
MRender 15.5
Gravity 14.3
Splatting 0.3
7% 10 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Sapphire(174B E182) 25% 20% ± 1%
XFX(1682 3130) 14% 20% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0B00) 11% 20% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E284) 11% 20% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2306) 10% 20% ± 1%
Asus(1043 03BC) 9% 21% ± 1%
Asus(1043 03B8) 7% 20% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 2201) 6% 18% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2010) 4% 20% ± 1%
MSI(1462 2370) 2% 21% ± 2%
MSI(1462 2470) 0% 19% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 2200) 0% 23% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000) 0% 22% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 2010) 0% 20% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 8%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 74%
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Workstation
Workstation 7%
Tree trunk

Disqualified System: bin bin

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,033x
Core i7-2600Intel  $188Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,576x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples938x
GPU
HD 6970AMDBench 20%, 9,594 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples826x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples457x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples427x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples517x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples377x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
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21 months ago.

CAN-User
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4,970

Excellent

2 years ago.

the thermal solution is way over the thermal output, witch leaves a lot of headroom for overclocking

NLD-User
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3,516

Terrible

7 months ago.

Garbage drivers, loud annoying cooling fan, broke down smoke and flashes

HUN-User
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3,405

Good

13 months ago.

I have this :D (my 500 w psu not the best for this gpu)

IRQ-User
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1,474

Good

3 years ago.

CAUSE ITS BETTER THAN MY POTATO INTEL HD 3000

BurntTech
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42

Good

5 years ago.

I love the number of mini display port setup on a hyrda computer

boxxfice
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6

Good

5 days ago.

Pretty good, only issue is that after 13-14 years thermal paste degrades, repasted but still have to undervolt it to -3%, otherwise good card for the time period

ESARanger
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4

Good

6 years ago.

can be bought cheap (just flash a 6950)

Vildsvin2
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Good

5 years ago.

Can be bought used for a decent price offering good value, although it is loud & power hungry.

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