AMD 6970 card

BruceUSA wrote on 8/11/2013, 12:40 PM

A months or so ago, I built a nice PC 3930K running @4.6Ghz and AMD 6950 2gb card. This combination is working very well. But I want more. So, I got a more powerful card coming AMD 6970 2gb. After much reading, about specfication, the 6970 is very comparable to Nivida GTX570, that is what I am after. I choose to stay with AMD because I want eyefinity setup and that is what I got, 3 24" IPS screen 16:10. more testing coming soon, if I got times in my hands.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/11/2013, 3:07 PM

Did the upping in card help speed up anything noticeable right away? They're both two nicer cards to begin with.

BruceUSA wrote on 8/11/2013, 5:00 PM

I would hope the 6970 increase performance in both timeline and rendering. But I don't know until the card is installed and run some tests. As I said above, the card is coming. I would expect performance about the same as gtx570.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/11/2013, 7:46 PM

I thought you already had it installed. My mistake.

Judging from the name of the card (6950 vs 6970) I don't believe you'll see much improvement. I'm sure you will, just not enough to warrant the price difference I believe.

But, if you're wanting to "throw" the old card out, I'm "trash" it for ya. :)

BruceUSA wrote on 8/15/2013, 1:09 PM

here is the test . check e'm out.

cohibaman#1 wrote on 8/15/2013, 2:37 PM

Your YouTube link that you posted isn't working!

NormanPCN wrote on 8/15/2013, 2:49 PM

There will not be much performance increase between the two cards. They are very close in spec.

Also, Vegas is not a nearly pure GPU application like a video game or 3D model ray tracing. Meaning even a card twice as fast cannot affect performance by a factor of two.

BruceUSA wrote on 8/15/2013, 4:30 PM

I just checked, the link is working fine for me. copy and paste the link, should work.