AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

[hclarkjr]

so where are all the reviews?

 

[MangoX]

so where are all the reviews?

They're coming in a few hours ^_^

 

[busydude]

 

[Creig]

Conclusion


Noise / Temps - This is where these cards excel, on AUTO fan control they remain quiet and temperatures seem to remain well below 80c thanks to the vapour chamber. So good results from ATI here and the cards do not get scoulding hot either unlike older 5870 cards. Crank the fan up and the temps can be kept sub 50c.

Power Consumption - The 6970 can draw a maximum of 250W, but it typically won't see over 200W consumption and at idle consumes as little as 20W, the fact we could run a Crossfire overclocked system setup with ease of an OCZ 700W was excellent.

Price - Sub £250 for a 6950 and sub £300 for a 6970 make these cards very competively priced!

Performance - The 6950 is the star performer, it clocks well enough to get it past 6970 stock performance and a pair of these in Crossfire cost similar to a GTX 580, yet you get quite a lot more performance and hardly any extra power requirements. Which makes the 6950 ideal for those who want a great performing card and also for those who want some serious power. The 6970 can basically overclock further and has a few more shaders meaning it can practically match a stock GTX 580 when overclocked in certain benchmarks but still lags behind in others. But again its £100 cheaper and if you were to purchase a pair you have GTX 580 crushing performance. Neither of these cards can challenge the GTX 580 for outright power, but when overclocked they can come close, but they are considerably cheaper and the fact you can buy 2x 6950's for the price of one GTX 580 makes these mighty appealing.

Overclocking - Both cards did not support voltage tweak *YET* hence the best stable speeds I could reach was 930MHz Core and 5950MHz Memory on the 6950 and 980MHz Core and 6200MHz Memory on the 6870. I believe with voltage control we will see above 1000MHz and 6500MHz on the 6970's.

In Crossfire I could no longer use MSI Tweaker which meant I could only overclock the cards using the Overdrive in Catalyst which is why Crossfire overclock speeds are lower, so in Crossfire OC performance there is a lot more to come.


http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217817

 

[Creig]

http://www.coolpc.com.tw/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=57400&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

 

[Kenmitch]

Conclusion


Noise / Temps - This is where these cards excel, on AUTO fan control they remain quiet and temperatures seem to remain well below 80c thanks to the vapour chamber. So good results from ATI here and the cards do not get scoulding hot either unlike older 5870 cards. Crank the fan up and the temps can be kept sub 50c.

Power Consumption - The 6970 can draw a maximum of 250W, but it typically won't see over 200W consumption and at idle consumes as little as 20W, the fact we could run a Crossfire overclocked system setup with ease of an OCZ 700W was excellent.

Price - Sub £250 for a 6950 and sub £300 for a 6970 make these cards very competively priced!

Performance - The 6950 is the star performer, it clocks well enough to get it past 6970 stock performance and a pair of these in Crossfire cost similar to a GTX 580, yet you get quite a lot more performance and hardly any extra power requirements. Which makes the 6950 ideal for those who want a great performing card and also for those who want some serious power. The 6970 can basically overclock further and has a few more shaders meaning it can practically match a stock GTX 580 when overclocked in certain benchmarks but still lags behind in others. But again its £100 cheaper and if you were to purchase a pair you have GTX 580 crushing performance. Neither of these cards can challenge the GTX 580 for outright power, but when overclocked they can come close, but they are considerably cheaper and the fact you can buy 2x 6950's for the price of one GTX 580 makes these mighty appealing.

Overclocking - Both cards did not support voltage tweak *YET* hence the best stable speeds I could reach was 930MHz Core and 5950MHz Memory on the 6950 and 980MHz Core and 6200MHz Memory on the 6870. I believe with voltage control we will see above 1000MHz and 6500MHz on the 6970's.

In Crossfire I could no longer use MSI Tweaker which meant I could only overclock the cards using the Overdrive in Catalyst which is why Crossfire overclock speeds are lower, so in Crossfire OC performance there is a lot more to come.


http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217817

Interesting link. Was using Cat 10.11's tho.

Who would make up a score looking like this one....Meaning the 1234 score part of it

 

[biostud]

From these benchmarks the CF scaling is amazing.

 

[Skurge]

AMD was be proud of themselves. We still aren't sure about the specs and NDA lifts in a few hours.

 

[betasub]

Full price listing of prices in UK pounds at OcUK:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...ortby=priceAsc

Stock of "10+" = a stack of up to 160 boxes, as previous pictured

 

[chewietobbacca]

So much for those paper launch rumors!

Unless they meant paper as in the invoice you get with the card

 

[Zargon]

Full price listing of prices in UK pounds at OcUK:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...ortby=priceAsc

Stock of "10+" = a stack of up to 160 boxes, as previous pictured

nice

 

[Arkadrel]

When 1 Shop in UK has ~1000x 6950 cards, and ~500x 6970 cards...

It was a nice pic though seeing those 163? cards or so stacked up.

Its not a what I would call a papir lunch, esp not if other shops in the UK have in those quanties as well.

 

[Silverforce11]

AIBs had warehouses full of cards in early november ready for a launch on the 22nd. ATI said no go on the launch, their partners were not happy. Time is money to them. Either way, there will be plenty of volume.

Retail cards shipped with 10.11, which you guys may know is the really bad driver thats MS certified but its older than 10.10e and terrible for 6xxx series.

 

[TechnoMan1]

http://www.netplus.com.au/ has benchmarks on its front page

Benchmarks! HD6970 HD6870 HD5850
3DMark Vantage (2008) 19974 16712 16208
3DMark 2011 5054 4202 3720

 

[Arkadrel]

http://www.netplus.com.au/ has benchmarks on its front page

Benchmarks! HD6970 HD6870 HD5850
3DMark Vantage (2008) 19974 16712 16208
3DMark 2011 5054 4202 3720

random stores useing the drivers on the CD that came with the cards (1month+ old un-optimised drivers).... those drivers arnt really optimised for the 69xx cards, so dont really reflect what theyd do with the drivers that reviewers got their hands on.

 

[SolMiester]

What side of the country in the States do you go by for NDA lift?...Its nearly 4.30pm 15/12 here in NZ!

 

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...n=6970&x=0&y=0

did not know they would be $370 for a 6970

 

[toyota]

why would anybody buy the nearly $300 6870 models when they can get a 6950 for basically the same price? surely AMD will be lowering the 6870 price a bit.

 

[DerKaiser]

why would anybody buy the nearly $300 6870 models when they can get a 6950 for basically the same price? surely AMD will be lowering the 6870 price a bit.

The 6870s are between $240 and $270 at Newegg.

 

[Dark Shroud]

What is wrong with the artists at Sapphire putting corn rolls on the females images.

 

[toyota]

The 6870s are between $240 and $270 at Newegg.

they lowered the prices on most of them then because 2 days ago there were a few models at $279-$299.

 

[mojo8472]

For any UK people still up, eBuyer have a 6970 listed. Pricing looks awesome!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/250402

 

[DerKaiser]

they lowered the prices on most of them then because 2 days ago there were a few models at $279-$299.

It only takes a day for the market to change. I think I'll wait until after Christmas and see where prices are at.

 

[WelshBloke]

For any UK people still up, eBuyer have a 6970 listed. Pricing looks awesome!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/250402

Cool, at least that confirms Overclockers price, I thought they may have made a mistake as the 6950's are about the same prise as the 6870's.

 

[Sickamore]

do you guys know what time the nda will be lifted. I am about to pull the trigger on a graph card. I just cant wait anymore. Why is this cards being held so tightly on nda.