Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Dirt 3 Edition Graphics Card Review

AcousticsNoise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system with a passive graphics card installed. Once we have the level recorded with the passive card, we continue to change the graphics card for the one that we are testing. Due to us having the audio level recorded before installation, it gives us a guide to work with and shows that anything over our initial level is an audio gain.

With it’s unique twin fan design, this test was looking hopeful, but it couldn’t quite beat the rest of the higher end cards in terms of noise at idle or at load.