AMD Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 Video Card Review

The AMD Radeon HD 6970

Below we have an overall look at the AMD Radeon HD 6970 reference model. It requires one six-pin and one eight-pin auxiliary power connector.

Figure 10: AMD Radeon HD 6970

Figure 11: AMD Radeon HD 6970

Like the Radeon HD 6950, the Radeon HD 6970 has two mini DisplayPort 1.2, one HDMI 1.4a connector, and two DVI-D connectors. The new DisplayPort 1.2 standard has a technique called multi-stream transport, which allows several video monitors to be installed using only one connector of the video card. Each mini DisplayPort 1.2 supports up to three video monitors (installed by either daisy-chaining the monitors or using a multi-stream transport hub), making this video card to be able to be connected up to six monitors using only two connectors.

Figure 12: Video connectors

The Radeon HD 6970 also has two BIOS chips, feature that we’ve already discussed (see Figure 4).