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HD 6970M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 10.7% (286th of 714)

Based on 1,595 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6720 Models: AMD Radeon HD 6900M, AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Poor: 7%Average: 10.7% Great: 13%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 6970M averaged 89.2% 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) 14.5fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 11.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 6970M is just 5.77%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 6970M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 13.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 12.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,595 samples)
Rank 28610.7%
Min Avg Max
8.73 Lighting 14.5 17.2
9.7 Reflection 13.9 16.8
7.47 Parallax 12.8 15.4
11.8% 13.7 fps
Min Avg Max
6.3 MRender 10.3 11.5
6 Gravity 10.2 12.4
7.65 Splatting 11.3 15.9
8.73% 10.6 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Dell(1028 048F) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
11.9% Very poor
Lighting 16.5
Reflection 16
Parallax 15
13% 15.8 fps
MRender 11.1
Gravity 12.3
Splatting 9.3
9% 10.9 fps
Apple(106B 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
10.6% Very poor
Lighting 14.7
Reflection 15.9
Parallax 13.9
12% 14.8 fps
MRender 10.8
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 8.9
8% 9.93 fps
Dell(1028 04A4) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
10.2% Very poor
Lighting 14
Reflection 15.8
Parallax 12.3
11% 14 fps
MRender 10.6
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 8.8
8% 9.83 fps
Apple(106B 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
10.2% Very poor
Lighting 14
Reflection 15.7
Parallax 12.3
11% 14 fps
MRender 10.7
Gravity 10
Splatting 8.8
8% 9.83 fps
Apple(106B 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
10.2% Very poor
Lighting 13.9
Reflection 15.7
Parallax 12.3
11% 14 fps
MRender 10.8
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 8.9
8% 9.93 fps
Apple(106B 0B00) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0
10.1% Very poor
Lighting 13.7
Reflection 15.4
Parallax 12.3
11% 13.8 fps
MRender 10.7
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 8.8
8% 9.87 fps
Apple(106B 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
2.83% Terrible
Lighting 0.2
Reflection 15.8
Parallax 12.4
0% 9.47 fps
MRender 10.8
Gravity 10.1
Splatting 8.9
8% 9.93 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Apple(106B 0B00) 40% 11% ± 1%
Dell(1028 04A4) 26% 10% ± 2%
Dell(1028 048F) 9% 11% ± 2%
Sanyo(144D C0AD) 8% 11% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 5104) 5% 12% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0490) 3% 11% ± 1%
Dell(1028 04BA) 3% 11% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7100) 2% 11% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7201) 1% 12% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7200) 1% 11% ± 2%
HP(103C 1520) 0% 7% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 5102) 0% 11% ± 0%
Dell(1028 053F) 0% 10% ± 0%
Dell(1028 043A) 0% 6% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 8000) 0% 12% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 10%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 59%
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Workstation
Workstation 9%
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System: Dell Precision M6600

CPU
Core i7-2720QMIntel  $85Bench 58%, 7,798 samples109x
Core i7-2860QMIntel  $469Bench 62%, 4,317 samples102x
Core i7-2760QMIntel  $130Bench 60%, 10,423 samples84x
GPU
HD 6970MAMDBench 11%, 1,595 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples12x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples11x
PM830 mSATA 256GBSamsungBench 63%, 9,379 samples8x
RAM
M471B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 43%, 15,815 samples15x
HMT351S6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 45%, 359 samples15x
HMT451S6MFR8C-PB HMT351S6BFR8C-H9 HMT451S6MFR8C-PB HMT351S6BFR8C-H9 16GBHynixBench 45%, 20 samples13x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 65% - Good Total price: $113

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Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

4 years ago.

Almost every single one of these cards are dead today

SRB-User
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Good

4 years ago.

Has a lot of driver problems and the card is dead. If you are thinking of buying a gaming laptop with this just buy a Vega laptop.

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