Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX - Review (4)

Games Benchmark Result

	Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX
Far Cry 2 1920 X 1080 AA8X All Ultra High	70.28
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Call of Pripyat   1920 X 1080 AA4X All High DX11 (DaY)	77.6
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Call of Pripyat   1920 X 1080 AA4X All High DX11 (NiGht)	73.5
CALL OF JUREZ 1920 X 1080 AA4X All High	74.2
LOST PLANNET 2 1920 X 1080 AA4X All High	39.1
RESEDENT EVIL 5 1920 X 1080 AA8X All High	94.5
STREET FIGHTER 41920 X 1080 AA8X All High	131.93
THE LAST REMNANT 1920 X 1080	130.85

 

Temperature

Ambient                         30

Idle Fan 100%               36

Idle Fan Auto                 38

Load Fan 100%            58

Load Fan Auto              69

 

Overclock Ability @ MAX CCC Scale (Original Bios)

Overclock Ability @ 950Mhz / 1450Mhz (Sapphire HD 6970 Bios)

 

            All the above is the result of the Radeon HD 6950, its result doesn’t change much if compare with the HD 6970. But the major change is the powerful overclock which Vapor-X fan makes it so powerful and when the bios is changing to HD 6970 is much better. Deplorable because of the re new of electronic parts, when the bios is changed the uni shader isn’t following the flow it still 1408 not 1536. The overclock is still good. I think this card will good or not it is up to you now. Thank for Reading

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX - Review (3)

Accessories

            The package and the bundle of Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX. It fit in the carton box. Oh there is short hair beautiful warrior on the box too. The bundle is complete for use not too much or too low. There are; manual, driver, sticker, 2 power supply cable (6 pins), DVI to D-sub cable converter, HDMI 1.4a cable, Mini-DisplayPort 1.2 to HDMI converter cable, HDMI to DVI converter cable which so important to make the Eyefinity on this HD 6950.

Test Setup

            Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX is running
System
Mainboard                 P6T WS-PRO
CPU                           Intel Core i7 920
Memory                      G.Skill TRIDENT 6GB
VGA                           Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX
Harddisk                    Western WD VelociRaptor 600GB SATA3
Power Supply            Tagan BZ 1300Watt
OS                              Microsoft Windows Seven x64

CPU-Z 1.57

CPU

Memory

Mother Board

GPU

GPU-Z 0.5.2

Catalyst Control Center

Benchmark Result

3DMARK2003

3DMARK2005

3DMARK2006

3DMARK2011

3DMARK VANTAGE

 

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX - Review (2)

Closer look

Connector

6 Pins Power Supply Port

SLI

            The ports on the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX is look like the master one.

There are 2 DVI ports, HDMI 1.4a, 2 mini-display 1.2 ports. But there is something smelly about the Sapphire. It can take 3 DVI monitors at the same time by the Eyefinity technology (2 from DVI ports and another form mini-display port by HDMI to DVI cable converter (in the bundle)). Only 150 power supply of each of Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX which can make up to 4 ways crossfireX. 

PCB & Cooler

            Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX can be divided in to three major parts. There are heatsink, PCB and frame. Take a look at the heatsink, it use the Vipor-X technology combine the 2 copper pipe and aluminum fin. It has 11 blades each blade is 9 centimeters long. Smelly again when Sapphire uses the Vapor-X technology the name of the card is going to be ending by “Vapor-X”. I think that it because the Cayman is too hot and cannot survive without the Vipor-X.

            The blue tone of the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX is impacted by lot of electronic parts, but still looks orderly. Solid capacitor. 8 phases power supply; 7 for core processor another one for memory (GDDR5 from Hynix). 2 bios systems one can’t be edited another can’t.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX - Review (1)

" Radeon HD 6950 With FleX Heatsink!!! "

The super power card of the 2 titan is already released in the first quarter of this year. The twin head GTX 590 VS the HD 6990 Radeon which the result is already spilt to everywhere. The card that many of the overclocker is discussing about, it is the HD 6950 Radeon, because it can be transformed in to the Radeon HD 6970 very easy. Yes it is. Today I got to test the blue tone graphic card which the FleX heatsink is equipped. It is the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX.

Now let take a look a specification table.

Hardware Specifications

	nVidia GTX570	nVidia GTX580	Radeon HD 6950	Radeon HD 6970	Sapphire HD 6950 FleX
Codename	GF110	GF110	Cayman Pro	Cayman XT	Cayman Pro
Transistor Count (Millions)	3000	3000	2640	2640	2640
Fabrication Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Die size (mmˆ2)	520 mmˆ2	520 mmˆ2	389 mmˆ2	389 mmˆ2	389 mmˆ2
Memory (Max)	1.280GB	1.536GB	2GB	2GB	2GB
Uni Shader	480	512	1408	1536	1408
Core Speed	732 MHz	772 MHz	800 MHz	880 MHz	800 MHz
Shader Speed	1464 MHz	1544 MHz	n/a	n/a	n/a
Memory Speed	3800 MHz	4000 MHz	5000 MHz	5500 MHz	5000 MHz
Maximum Fill Rate (MTexels/s)	43900	49400	70400	84500	70400
Memory Bus Width	320-bit	384-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
Max Memory Bandwidth	152 GB/s	192.4 GB/s	160 GB/s	176 GB/s	160 GB/s
Multi-GPU Support	Yes, 2/3/4Way SLI	Yes, 2/3/4Way SLI	Yes, CrossfireX	Yes, CrossfireX	Yes, CrossfireX
DirectX Version Support	11	11	11	11	11
OpenGL Version Support	4.1	4.1	4.1	4.1	4.1
Bus Type	PCI-E 2.0	PCI-E 2.0	PCI-E 2.1	PCI-E 2.1	PCI-E 2.1

 

             Radeon HD 6950 is the eleventh card in the Radeon 6000 series (Not count the onboard card). It is the very high performance card which classify by AMD (Only HD 6970 and HD 6990 is more powerful). HD 6950 Radeon’s uni shader is only 128 less then the HD 6970. The experts about the computer graphic say “128 uni shader is walled by the bios of Radeon HD 6950 if we change the bios to the Radeon HD 6970 version, the HD 6950 will turn to HD 6970”. And it is true.

            Radeon HD 6950 is cooked by Sapphire. FleX is the heatsink that look like pencil box cause it noise and hot, but the FleX is only warm. Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX has 1408 uni shader which can be transformed to the HD 6970.

Detail

            The electronic components are re new by Sapphire. PCB board is turned to blue (the master one is brown). The back of the master’s PCI board is look simply clear, but the Sapphire one is impacts by the lot of electronic components. 11 blade of Flex 9 centimeters long, 4000-4200 rpm max speed.

            I really love its layout; I know that Sapphire is intending to design for sucking to money out of your pocket that like to put the handsome graphic card it to case. The detail on the FleX is more than the pervious graphic cards on the 6000 series ostensibly.

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