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AMD Radeon HD 6970 & HD 6950 - Cayman Arrives!

By Kenny Yeo - 15 Dec 2010

Dawn of War 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 has always been closely contested, and all the cards here recorded very comparable frame rates. However, the new Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 did pull ahead when we came to the most intensive setting of 1920 x 1200 with anti-aliasing enabled. This is no doubt due to their generous 2GB framebuffers as well as the more efficient anti-aliasing engines on the new Caymen cards. 

Battlefield Bad Company 2 is one of the hottest DirectX 11 titles this year and it makes use of tessellation which is an area where the Radeons are weak at. And although the new Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 claim to have improved tessellation performance, the Radeon HD 6970 is only a tad quicker than the old Radeon HD 5870, whereas the HD 6950 finds itself trailing the HD 5870 by a couple of frames.

Compared to the GeForce GTX 570, the Radeon HD 6970 found itself trailing by a considerable 18%, but if you turn the page and look at the results from Unigine, the difference between the two isn’t so great, so perhaps this is an issue with drivers more than anything else. We’ll be looking at this benchmark closely in future testing. 

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