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

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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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A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6950 1GB

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 came out last month and the Radeon HD 6950 1GB is the same exact card with half the amount of memory on it. The clock speeds remain the same at 800MHz on the core and 1250MHz on the 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

Right away we noticed that the Radeon HD 6950 1GB is longer than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti. We took the picture above to show you the length difference between these two popular gaming graphics cards. The AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB is 10.5" in length and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti is just 9" in length. This shouldn't be an issue, but is certainly worth pointing out to our readers.

As you can see, the Radeon HD 6900 series cards are dual-slot designs with a squirrel cage type cooling fan on it.

The back of the Radeon HD 6950 1GB video card we were sent doesn't have a back plate on it, which is interesting as the 2GB version does.

AMD Radeon HD 6970 Video Card BIOS Switch

All of the other features of the card are identical to the other AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB cards, so we won't go into more detail on this card. The picture above is of what they are calling a 'Dual BIOS Toggle Switch' and this is a pretty neat feature that we need to talk about. This switch allows you to switch between two totally separate BIOS versions on the Radeon HD 6900 series graphics card. AMD said that these boards have two BIOS chips (EEPROM) that both have separate lanes. If you want to tweak or flash the card to a different BIOS you can always do so on setting number 1, which is unprotected and for user updates. Setting number 2 is protected as the factory default and can't be flashed by end users.

Next Page - Test Setup

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

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