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6950 over a 6870

zod96

zod96

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I've got a 6870. I can return it and get a XFX dual fan 6950 for about $30 more. Is the 6950 that much a better card than the 6870? This would be for BC2 and possible BF3 later...
 
The dual bios / reference 6950's are almost all gone. Taking a quick look at newegg, they are almost all custom versions.
Which is not all bad. Just get a model with good cooling/ for o/c potential.
 
Astrallite said:
And even then the 6970 is only 10-15% faster than the 5870.
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Yup most non tessellation games only saw around 10% increase from 5870-6970. Besides some of performance are from the increased core and memory clocks. Same with 6870 they clock it to the moon to make up for the reduced shaders in the end it can barely outperform (~5%) a 5850. I think the 6 series are the most unimpressive series from AMD in terms of performance jump.
 
WMD said:
Yup most non tessellation games only saw around 10% increase from 5870-6970. Besides some of performance are from the increased core and memory clocks. Same with 6870 they clock it to the moon to make up for the reduced shaders in the end it can barely outperform (~5%) a 5850. I think the 6 series are the most unimpressive series from AMD in terms of performance jump.
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They didn't need to do much because competition didn't bring that much more.
 
The XFX dual fan is cool and quiet, not much of an OCer though. Lifetime warranty if you register the card on the XFX site within 10 days.
 
zerocool84 said:
They didn't need to do much because competition didn't bring that much more.
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This

And AMD had planed for these Cards to be 32nm or 28nm and guess who screwed up yet again. So they had to revise the chip and launch it on 40nm. If things had worked out to plan I think the gap would have been much larger.
 
I love my 6950. I went with the 1GB version because I will never go above 1080p since my gaming computer is connected to my HDTV. I saved 30 bucks and bought a game instead lol.
 
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If the OP doesn't overclock it might be worth $30, but if indeed the HD6870 has better cooling I'd try overclocking the heck out of that first considering the XFX he would get isn't known for stellar oc'ing. I guess I don't see that much of a jump to justify swapping out the cards for $30, heck I'd keep what I have in that case and see what develops when the next series of AMD cards comes out...
 
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