Tom’s Hardware reports that AMD’s HD 7000 cards may present worse image quality than their predecessors to increase overall performance. Tom’s Hardware posted very interesting article. They noticed some blurry textures while performing tests with HD 7800s cards. So they continued with their investigation to find evidence. As they say, previous HD 6000 generation cards [...]

The HD 7970 may be the graphics card everyone is talking about but it only just became available in somewhat limited quantities and pricing is far beyond the reach of most consumers. But while the Southern Islands-based cards will take over AMD’s flagship range, lower end cards still provide great performance at a fraction of [...]

So it’s time; you’ve decided to take the plunge and purchase an Eyefinity setup. You’ve seen the videos, you’ve read the testimonials, and you’re ready to strip the horse blinders off of your virtual alter ego. One major question remains though: how much of a beast are you going to need to drive this rig? [...]

AMD Eyefinity allows users to essentially span three separate monitors into one large, singular desktop. The lure of this to gamers is a massive field of vision across three screens. But Eyefinity has always had one very big asterisk: one monitor must have a native DisplayPort connection, or else purchase an active adapter that runs [...]

AMD’s Radeon HD 6970 is considered a mature graphics card design now with future GPUs coming out in the next months. PowerColor has taken the opportunity to create some waves before the holidays with a new premium-class HD 6970 called Devil 13. The PowerColor Devil 13 is using a completely revamped PCB design and cooling [...]

Triple-A games provide an opportune time for graphics-card manufacturers to launch a new GPU bundle, much in the same way as Sony and Microsoft do with console-specific titles. One of the most eagerly-awaited gaming titles this year has been Battlefield 3, released late last week. Seen as a pivotal release that can boost graphics-card sales, [...]

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced a new model in its successful HD 6900 series of graphics cards – the HD 6970 2GB with a new super efficient Dual fan cooler and Dual BIOS giving users the choice of fast, quiet operation or performance tuning. The new SAPPHIRE HD 6970 has the same internal architecture as [...]

Whether you are a gamer or work in some part of the graphics design field, its more than likely that if your motherboard has onboard graphics, it just can’t handle what developers are throwing at us these days. And VisionTek is where third party manufacturers come in to play, such as VisionTek, ASUS, Gigabyte and [...]

Celebrating the launch of the much anticipated Battlefield 3 game, SAPPHIRE Technology is introducing the SAPPHIRE HD 6970 BF3 Special Edition – featuring two SAPPHIRE exclusive technologies, SAPPHIRE FleX and Vapor-X cooling as well as performance enhancing options for the enthusiast and access to a FREE copy of the full game! The SAPPHIRE HD 6970 [...]

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphic cards, today reveals the ultimate edition of the HD 6970: Devil 13 HD 6970. Designed to fulfill the most demanding HD titles, the Devil 13 HD 6970 has default clock settings at 880 MHz core speed and 1375MHz memory speed. An OC switch means gamers can easily [...]

HIS today launched new 6970 EyeFinity Ready-to-See graphics cards, the perfect solution to enable AMD’s EyeFinity game play on up to three screens! The HIS 6970 RTS uses innovative technology to enable AMD’s EyeFinity via HDMI. Gamers no longer have to connect the DisplayPort output or use the active DisplayPort adapter in order to perform [...]

At bit-tech, we love to see companies mixing it up with third-party graphics card coolers, as there’s often a lot of room for improvement on the reference models . HIS’ IceQ range of coolers are fine examples, dating back to the Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB, when its rebranded Arctic Cooling Silencer was in a different [...]

It is awfully hard to deny the value proposition of the AMD HD 6970 graphics card. The card overall matches (and sometimes exceeds) the NVIDIA GTX 570 at a slightly lower price, it has 2 GB of frame buffer, and AMD is consistently improving not just gaming performance for the new VLIW 4 architecture, but [...]

The SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2: Vietnam Special Edition will be competing with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 570 and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580. We overclock the SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2:V Special Edition using SAPPHIRE TriXX Tweak Utility and voltage tweaking to see how it can compare to the more expensive GTX 580. Sapphire Technology is a well-known company based [...]

Manufacturers these days go to extremes to bring a graphics card to the market that is unique. With that sentiment HIS is releasing a product with a bit of difference. Roughly a year and a half ago LUCID entered the market with what they claimed to be the revolution in multi-GPU (from different brands) technology, [...]

Gigabyte is constantly revising designs of its already-launched graphics cards. This time around, it’s the Radeon HD 6970 WindForce 3X (GV-R697UD-2GD). This custom design graphics card sticks to AMD’s reference clock speeds, but creates some overclocking headroom with its WindForce 3X cooler, and a strong VRM on the PCB. The new revision 2.0 packs an [...]

MSI’s Latest Lightning series, the R6970 Lightning is here, based on an AMD Radeon HD 6970 with 2GB of GDDR5. It is only moderately overclocked out of the box, but its hardware quality may just knock the ball out of the park. Come with us as we test it against the stock Radeon HD 6970 [...]

After a little more work in its labs, Gigabyte has managed to build a new non-stock Radeon HD 6970, one that makes use of the WindForce 3X (tri-fan) cooler, like the GV-R697OC-2GD, and has its GPU and memory clocked at 920 MHz 5500 MHz, respectively (880/5500 MHz stock, 900/5500 MHz for the R697OC). Gigabyte’s card [...]

Today we shall review a trio from HIS based on the Radeon HD 6970, Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6850 GPUs. Some of these solutions copy reference design, but every card is nevertheless factory-overclocked and has a rather efficient cooler. As you can see, both Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970 are copies of [...]

It was some time ago that we first got the idea of making a comparative test of two cards that are in high demand among hardware enthusiasts. The chance arose when two almost identical cards got to our offices, courtesy of ASUS. Situations such as these, where you have the chance to compare graphics cards [...]