flopper
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My question is whether or not you will run into power issues. The 6950 only had 2x6 pin and the 6970 has 1 8 pin and 6 pin.
you get not as much due to as you noted but the extra shaders add up.
My question is whether or not you will run into power issues. The 6950 only had 2x6 pin and the 6970 has 1 8 pin and 6 pin.
according to this review http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd6970-hd6950_12.html#sect0you get not as much due to as you noted but the extra shaders add up.
Overclocking helps Radeon HD 6950 almost eliminate the performance difference from HD 6970, and in some games and test modes even outperform the latter.
Woohoo! It worked great for me. Thanks OP.
Aside from the power connector and different memory chips, is there any difference between a flashed 6950 and a 6970?
The 6950 has the same number of ROPs, but less TMUs (which the flash also unlocks).Is the only different between the 6950 and 6970 the number of shaders and GPU/memory clocks? Do they have the same number of ROPs, texture units, etc?
Dailytech also mentioned this process today and posted a link to the actual step by step process on techpowerup site...
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159
$60 is plenty in my book.I'm going to read that TPU article now.
However the difference in price is really small between these cards not like when people were flashing Radeon 9500 to 9700pro's.
6950 is $319 Cdn
6970 is $384 Cdn
ok I tried everything in that article no dice so far