The Asus EAH6970 Card is a graphics card based on the AMD Asus EAH6970 Card graphics processor. Performance-wise, the Asus EAH6970 Card fits right in between the HD 5870 and the HD 5970.
The Asus EAH6970 is a uncommon kind of beast. Even as the Radeon HD 5970 was a graphics card with two cores, the HD 6970 comes with just the one (albeit a very commanding one).
Asus EAH6970: Design and specifications
Like AMD’s 5000 series, the Asus EAH6970 Card comes DirectX 11-ready and is powered by an 880MHz core and 2GB of DDR5 reminiscence. The card itself looks no uncommon from additional high-end 5000 series cards, which means it’s long and absolutely covered by a fake casing that hides a heat sink and has a fan embedded on it.
Asus has ensured that the Asus EAH6970 Card is well stocked in terms of connectivity. The card is packed with ports counting two DVI ports, two mini Spectacle Ports and one HDMI port, so you can really use four displays at once with this card thankfulness to AMD’s Eyefinity equipment. The card needs a six-pin connector and an eight-pin connector to power it up so you will need at least a 550W PSU.
Asus EAH6970 Card: Performance
Our colleagues at PC Planet India tested the Asus EAH6970 on a logic comprising of an Intel X58 motherboard, a quad-core Intel Core i7 965 processor, 12GB of RAM in triple channel and a 40GB Intel SSD all powered by a 1300W Tagan BZ Series PSU. The in commission logic was Windows 7 Essential 64bit.
We ran the Asus through a gamut of tests counting 3D Mark Vantage, 3D Mark 11, Unigine 2.0, Crysis, Metro 2033 and Far Weep 2. The performance results were as follows (compared with the AMD Radeon HD 5970 and the Zotac Geforce GTX 580):
As is visible from the performance figures, the Asus EAH6970 Card cascade fleeting of the GTX 580′s performance by nearly 15 performance and was in this area 10 percent behind the HD 5970′s performance.
We also stressed the Asus EAH6970 Card by Fur Mark to gauge how hot the card would get at full load. Here are the figures we got:
The figures privileged than prove that even as the Asus EAH6970 Card had a clad idle like of 45ºC, Asus EAH6970 Card shot up to 90ºC in use, which is scarily high. Keep in mind that this was in an open cabinet in an air-conditioned room. This in effect means that if you are training to buy this card, you best have a very excellent cooling logic in your cabinet. Fortunately even at full load, the fan noise was sufferable.
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