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A mid to low level graphics card, the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements. Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How many years will the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 246% better performance and can run 901 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which has 154% better performance and can run 685 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition is released on 01 Dec 2010

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GPU

Architecture

Terascale 3 Cayman Pro

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

70 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

26 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

1408

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048 MB

Memory Speed

1250 MHz

Memory Bus

256 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

160GB/sec

L2 Cache

512KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

800 MHz

Power

Max Power

200 Watts

PSU

500 Watt & 30 Amps

Power Connector

2x 6-pin

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-930 Quad 2.80GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 7970

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Resolution Performance
1366x768	1600x900	1920x1080	2560x1440	3840x2160
10	8.2	6.4	4.7	-

Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition is a special editon of the high-end Radeon HD 6950.
The only new feature is a new Cooling System. Therefore, Radeon HD 6950 PowerColor 2GB Edition delivers the same performance the reference Radeon HD 6950 does.

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CPU

Core i7-4790S 4-Core 3.2GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon R9 FURY 4GB

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RAM

11GB

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Popular Game System Requirements
Game	Min.	Rec.
Red Dead Redemption 2	47%	158%
Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order	52%	254%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	40%	158%
Halo: Reach	64%	18%
Microsoft Flight Simulator	59%	254%
Cyberpunk 2077	59%	254%
Borderlands 3	66%	172%
FIFA 20	0%	37%
Death Stranding	59%	254%
Need For Speed Heat	45%	158%

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