Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Edition 2GB Graphics Card Review

This card can be summed up extremely easy but we’ll try to be a bit more elaborate with what we say. Simply put, this card does what Eyefinity should have done in the first place, but giving a bit more of an explanation comes down to the connections used. Eyefinity typically means that a DisplayPort connector must be used, whether this be full-sized or the mini variety but this card allows for so much more.

By utilising a set of different connectors, it permits consumers to save a bit of money when choosing their monitors as DisplayPort capable monitors are generally a lot more expensive or require a DisplayPort dongle to be used and as we’ve said already, these don’t come cheap in the slightest.

Laying the card bare, it’s a bog standard 6950 in terms of performance, but is a 2GB variant so it’s better in certain areas where similar cards would fail. With the performance not really standing out, we would have preferred to have seen a slight increase in clock speeds as we know from our own findings, that the memory is capable of being pushed slightly further with ease.

The cooler does a good job in every area needed and that includes keeping things cool, first and foremost as well as being quiet whilst doing so. The simple cooler design will blend into any type of system and though the black is very bland, any addition of colour may leave the card losing its appeal for all types of systems.

At £236/$279 it’s not the cheapest card on the market and availability isn’t exactly booming at least in the UK, though the US seems to have slightly better pricing but once again, finding stock can be quite an issue.

Overall, the card is good and fills a gap that needed to be filled but will only be welcomed by a specialist market, but as a user of multiple screen configurations, I can only recommend a card like this with multiple screens to get the very best out of your gaming experience. Sadly a 6950 isn’t the greatest card to run the type of resolution used on triple monitor set-ups and due to this, we believe a user of this card would find much better results from utilising the CrossFireX capabilities, though this all adds up in the shopping cart and for the money, their are other cards on the market that can do a similar job with better performance.