Legit Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Versus AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 560 Ti & AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

3DMark Vantage

The Extreme settings were used for testing, so a resolution of 1920x1200 was used.

3DMark Vantage Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage showed that the AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB video card with 11.1a hotfix drivers does really well in 3DMark Vantage.  In fact, we were shocked to see it beating out the AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB with 10.11 drivers so badly. It looks like we are needing to go back through and re-test all of the AMD video cards, but at nearly 8 hours a card that would take weeks and we just don't have time for that right now.  The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti does very well in 3DMark Vantage and was at roughly the same performance level as a GeForce GTX 480 that was the flagship NVIDIA graphics card from the first half of 2010.

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Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings Titanium Back!
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX560 Ti
Page 3 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 7 - Just Cause 2
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 13 - 3DMark 11
Page 14 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 15 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 16 - Temperature Testing
Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 18 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU Overclocking
Page 19 - AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB GPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions