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.

Thank to overclockzone.com

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