AMD Radeon 6950 1GB Graphics Card Review
Andy Ruffell / 14 years ago
Test Setup
As with all our graphics card tests, we use a number of benchmarking utilities and programs to squeeze out every last frame possible from the card whilst placing it under immense pressure. We do this in our separate testing rig as detailed below which supports AMD and Nvidia cards to give the fairest tests possible.
| Test System | |
|---|---|
| Processor (CPU) |
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
|
| Motherboard |
Asus Crosshair IV Formula
|
| Memory (RAM) |
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1800MHz
|
| Graphics Card |
AMD Radeon HD 6950
|
| Heatsink (HSF) | CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ |
| Primary Hard Drive |
2 x Kingston V+ Series 64GB SSD (RAID 0)
|
| Power Supply | BFG EX Series 1200 Watt Modular Power Supply |
| Chassis | CoolerMaster Lab Test Bench |
| Operating System |
Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-bit
|
The tools that we use for benchmarking graphics cards include:
- 3DMark 11
- Unigine Heaven 2.1
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dirt 2
- Just Cause 2
- Mafia II
- Metro 2033
We also use other tools to monitor certain aspects of the graphics card, this includes:
- CPUID HWMonitor
- Digital MultiMeter
- MSI Afterburner
- GPU-Z
