Introduction
The nickname for the new HD 6900 series chip is Cayman, you may have heard of this name before and that is because it was the same processor they used for the cards around two years ago. These chips are huge in comparison to newer modern age chips you get these days. It has been re-designed however. AMD have increased the size from the HD 5000 series which contained only 2.15 billion transistors, but with that little bit extra size comes a whopping 2.6 billion from Caymans. But the downside is that there are fewer shader ALU’s then the last generation. Which is very if not extremely disappointing, it being a new card and all. Both AMD and NVIDIA are using the old style chips now which are the 40nm instead of the 32 or 28nm to produce their chips upon.
Features
- MSI Solid Capacitor Graphic Cards
- Afterburner
- MSI Advanced Live Update Online
- Live Update 5
- AMD Eyefinity
- HDMI + DVI Output
- HDMI convertible output
- DirectX 11
- Blu-ray and HD DVD Support
- HDMI Support
- PCI Express 2.0 Support
- Meet RoHS regulations
- HDCP Support
Specifications
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Graphics Engine |
AMD Radeon HD 6950 |
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Bus Standard |
PCI Express x16 2.1 |
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Memory Type |
GDDR5 |
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Memory Size(MB) |
2048 |
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Memory Interface |
256 bits |
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Core Clock Speed(MHz) |
800 |
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Memory Clock Speed(MHz) |
5000 |
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DVI Output |
Single-Link DVI-D x1, Dual-Link DVI-I x1 |
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D-SUB Output |
1 (optional, via DVI to D-Sub adaptor) |
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HDMI-Output |
1 |
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Mini DisplayPort |
2 |
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HDCP Support |
Y |
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HDMI Support |
Y |
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Dual-link DVI |
Y |
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Display Output (Max Resolution) |
4x 1920x1200 |
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RAMDACs |
400 |
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DirectX Version Support |
11 |
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OpenGL Version Support |
4.0 |
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CrossFire Support |
Y |
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Card Dimension(mm) |
275*110*38mm |
