Sapphire Radeon HD6970 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16

The new SAPPHIRE HD 6970 uses a new GPU architecture from AMD which features dual graphics engines in one chip with 24 SIMD engines and a total of 1536 stream processors with 96 texture units, providing massively parallel computing power for graphics and other accelerated applications.

Its core clock speed of 880MHz, together with a dedicated high speed interface to 2GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375MHz (5.5Gb/s effective) delivers the highest performance in this series. New Tesselation engines bring three times the performance of the previous generation, and new Enhanced Quality AA and new filtering modes bring the highest image quality ever achieved.

Features

• Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
• AMD Eyefinity
• ATI Avivo HD (DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray Playback)
• ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
• PCI-Express 2.0
• AMD HD3D Technology
• Dual-Link DVI
• HDMI 1.4a
• Mini-DisplayPort
• Single-Link DVI-D
• DisplayPort 1.2
• Microsoft DirectX® 11
• OpenGL® 3.1 and 3.2
• Shader Model 5.0
• ATI Catalyst Control Center™
• Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support
• Anti-aliasing features
• ATI PowerPlay™
• 4th Generation TeraScale Engine
• AMD PowerTune™ Technology
• AMD Advanced Parallel Processing technology
• Display Flexibility
• Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 3 (UVD 3)

Specifications

• Output

1 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x HDMI 1.4a
2 x Mini-DisplayPort
1 x Single-Link DVI-D

• GPU

880 MHz Core Clock
40 nm Chip
1536 x Stream Processors

• Memory

2048 MB Size
256 -bit GDDR5
5500 MHz Effective

• Software

Driver CD

• Accessory

CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect Cable
DVI to VGA Adapter
Mini-DP to DP Cable
6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable
8-PIN to 4 PIN x2 Power Cable