PowerColor HD6950 PCS+ Review

Specifications:

Features:  

• Up to 850MHz Engine Clock

• 2GB GDDR5 Memory

• 1300MHz Memory Clock (5.2 Gbps GDDR5)

• 160 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)

• 2.7/ 2.25 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power

• 562.5 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power

• Double slot form factor

• TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture
  • 1408 Stream Processors
  • 88 Texture Units
  • 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 32 Color ROP Units

• High Speed 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface

• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface

• “Eye-Definition” graphics
  • New and advanced architecture
    • Full DirectX® 11 support
    • Scalable geometry processing technology
    • Shader Model 5.0
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Dual advanced programmable hardware tessellation units
    • Accelerated multi-threading
    • HDR texture compression
    • Order-independent transparency
  • OpenGL 4.1 support
  • Image quality enhancement technology
    • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    • Adaptive anti-aliasing
    • Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
    • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
    • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    • 128-bit floating point HDR rendering

• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
  • Native support for up to 4 simultaneous displays
    • Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
  • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display

• AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration³
  • AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology
    • OpenCL 1.1 Support
    • DirectCompute 11
    • Double Precision Floating Point
    • Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
  • UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
    • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • Multi-View Codec (MVC)
    • MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)
    • Adobe Flash
  • Enhanced Video Quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling
    • Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
    • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
    • Independent video gamma control
    • Dynamic video range control
  • Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
  • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support

• AMD HD3D technology
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3^rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

• AMD CrossFireX^TM multi-GPU technology⁵
  • Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling

• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
  • HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
    • Max resolution: 1920x1200
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536

• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

• AMD PowerPlay^TM power management technology³
  • AMD PowerTune technology
    • Intelligent power management hardware
  • Dynamic power management with low power idle state
    • Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations

• AMD Catalyst^TM graphics and HD video configuration software
  • Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
  • AMD Catalyst^TM Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
  • Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.