Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition

Details: Category: Video Cards; Published: Friday, 01 July 2011 21:01

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title At the end of May AMD announced that select video cards would include Dirt 3 Steam codes. To celebrate Sapphire recently introduced their HD6950 Dirt 3 Edition. We know it’s going to include a copy of the game Dirt 3, but what else do we have in store? If it’s anything like what we have seen in the past from Sapphire we can expect a good performing card with a cooler design unique to Sapphire. Let’s find out!

Product Name: Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition

Review Sample Provided by: Sapphire

Review by: Wes

Pictures by: Wes

Specifications

Output	1xDual-Link DVI 1xDisplayPort 1xSingle-Link DVI-D 1xHDMI 1.4a DisplayPort 1.2
GPU	800MHzCore Clock 1408xStream Processors 40nmChip
Memory	5000MHzEffective 2048MBSize 256-bitGDDR5
Software	Driver CD SAPPHIRE TriXX Utility 1xDirt®3 Coupon
Accessory	CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect Cable DVI to VGA Adapter 6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable x 2 HDMI 1.4a high speed 1.8 meter cable(Full Retail SKU only)

Posts in discussion: Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt 3 Edition

Wingless92 replied the topic: #16421 02 Jul 2011 02:40

Seems like a good card, to me atleast.

Nice to see the graphs now with the arrows pointing to which GPU it is.

We need more Nvidia card reviews!

Regardless, Dirt3 is a great game.

Can you flash this to a 6970?

garfi3ld replied the topic: #16423 02 Jul 2011 14:45

Wait until you see the graphs for our next video card review! I spent a little time trying to reflash this card last night and didn't have luck, but I don't think it was the cards fault.

I would like to cover more Nvidia based cards also, we don't always have control over what cards we get in.

I am also working on retesting a lot of our past video cards to fill in all of our newer tests. That includes more Crossfire and SLI results.