Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition Review

ccokeman - April 3, 2011
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Specifications:

SKU	11188-04
ASIC	Radeon HD 6950
Bus Interface	PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.1)
Memory	2048MB / 256-bit GDDR5
Clock Speed	800MHz Eclk / Effective 5000MHz Mclk
Cooling System	Dual slot Fan with auto fan control
Bracket	Full Height
Display Support	DL-DVI-I, SL-DVI-D, Mini Display Port x 2, HDMI, VGA (Via included adaptor)
HDCP	Yes
Crossfire Support	Native Hardware Crossfire
External Power	PCIe Graphic External 2 x 6-pin
Accessories	Crossfire Interconnect Cable x 1 HDMI To DVI Adapter x 1 DVI to VGA Adaptor x 1 6-pin to 4-pin Power Cable x 2 Mini DP to DP Adapter x 1 HDMI 1.4a 1.8 meter cable x 1 (Full Retail only)
Software	Driver CD TriXX Support*

Sapphire FleX Technology: SAPPHIRE Flex Technology supports 3 displays without the requirement of DisplayPort monitors or Active DP adapters, and can support up to 5 displays with the use of a DisplayPort monitor or Active adapter.
Vapor-X Cooling Technology
Sapphire TriXX OC Utility Support
Dual BIOS
Up to 800 MHz Engine Clock
Effective 5 GHz Memory Clock
1408 Stream Processors
Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
AMD Eyefinity Technology
AMD Power Tune Technology—dynamically optimized performance
Open GL 4.1 Support
AMD HD3D Technology
AMD Advanced Parallel Processing Technology
Microsoft Windows 7 Support
40nm Process Technology
4th Generation TeraScale Engine
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
HDMI 1.4a support with Deep Color, 7.1 High Bitrate Audio and 3D Stereoscopic support
Display Port 1.2
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support
Enhanced Unified Video Decoder(UVD 3)
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM Support
Enhanced Internet Brower Applications
GPU acceleration support for Microsoft Office 2010

System Requirements:

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended.
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 6900 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card are required.