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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AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB GPU Overclocking
To overclock the AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB graphics card, we used
the ATI
Overdrive utility that is part of the CATALYST Control Center. When you
'unlock' the ATI Overdrive, you can manually set the clock and memory
settings.
The AMD Radeon HD 6950 starts off life at 800MHz on the core and
1250MHz on the memory. We were able to max out AMD Overdrive at 840MHz
core and 1325MHz on the memory and didn't see any issues in the games
with PowerTune left alone. This is a 40MHz overclock
on the core and a 75MHz boost on the 1GB worth of GDDR5 memory ICs. Not a
huge overclock by any means, but we expect to see a difference in the
benchmarks.
To test out the overclock we fired up 3DMark Vantage to see what this overclock was like.
The AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Video Card Stock 800MHz/1250MHz:
The AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Video Card Overclocked 840MHz/1325MHz:
Running 3DMark Vantage with the Extreme preset we got a
score of X10137 with the card at reference clock settings. The score
went up X10663 3DMarks when overclocked, which
was an improvement of 526 points or 5.2% with this mild overclock. Let's see what it does in real games.
Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusions
| Review Index |
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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 |
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