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Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition

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Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition
Packaging
Board Layout
Our Test Rig
Our Testing Procedures
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 2011
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Call of Duty Black Ops
Dirt 2
Dirt 3
Mafia 2
Metro 2033
Total War: Shogun 2
Performance
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titleAt the end of May AMD announced that select video cards would include Dirt 3 Steam codes. To celebrate Sapphire recently introduced their HD6950 Dirt 3 Edition. We know it’s going to include a copy of the game Dirt 3, but what else do we have in store? If it’s anything like what we have seen in the past from Sapphire we can expect a good performing card with a cooler design unique to Sapphire. Let’s find out!

Product Name: Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition

Review Sample Provided by: Sapphire

Review by: Wes

Pictures by: Wes


Specifications

Output

1xDual-Link DVI
1xDisplayPort
1xSingle-Link DVI-D
1xHDMI 1.4a
DisplayPort 1.2

GPU

800MHzCore Clock
1408xStream Processors
40nmChip

Memory

5000MHzEffective
2048MBSize
256-bitGDDR5

Software

Driver CD
SAPPHIRE TriXX Utility
1xDirt®3 Coupon

Accessory

CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect Cable
DVI to VGA Adapter
6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable x 2
HDMI 1.4a high speed 1.8 meter cable(Full Retail SKU only)




Posted: 10 months, 4 weeks ago by Wingless92 #16421
Seems like a good card, to me atleast.

Nice to see the graphs now with the arrows pointing to which GPU it is.

We need more Nvidia card reviews!

Regardless, Dirt3 is a great game.

Can you flash this to a 6970?
Posted: 10 months, 3 weeks ago by garfi3ld #16423
Wait until you see the graphs for our next video card review! I spent a little time trying to reflash this card last night and didn't have luck, but I don't think it was the cards fault.

I would like to cover more Nvidia based cards also, we don't always have control over what cards we get in.

I am also working on retesting a lot of our past video cards to fill in all of our newer tests. That includes more Crossfire and SLI results.

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