Introduction

Asus are one of the leading companies in technology development and have been around forever. They develop the biggest and the best of the components in a large amount you the users systems. One component they are always on top form with battling against its rivals companies in the market race for sales is Graphics cards. We have here for you today one of Asus's newest on the market, a really hardcore piece of equipment, this is the Asus ATI Radeon HD 6970 2GB Direct CU II. This card is a huge bit of kit and not for the space conscious users. Let's push onto see if it's performance can be as big as it is in size.

Specifications

Graphics Engine              AMD Radeon HD 6970

BUS Standard                  PCI Express 2.1

Video Memory               2GB GDDR5

Engine Clock                    890MHz

Memory Clock                5500MHz (1375MHz GDDR5)

Memory Interface          320-bit

DVI Max resolution        2560 x 1600

D-Sub Max resolution    2048 x 1536

D-Sub Output                  -

DVI Output                      DVI-I x1, DVI-D x1

HDMI Output                  x1 via DVI-to-HDMI adapter

Display Port                    x4

Adapter                           -DVI-to-HDMI adapter x1

                                         -Crossfire bridge x1

                                         -Power cable x1

Software                          ASUS utilities and driver

Dimensions                     11.5" x 5.0" x 2.0"