AMD Radeon™ HD 6950 GPU Feature Summary
- Up to 800MHz Engine Clock
- 2GB GDDR5 Memory
- Up to 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5)
- 160 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
- 2.25 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power
- 562.5 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power
- Double slot form factor
- TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1408 Stream Processors
- 88 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 32 Color ROP Units
- High Speed 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- “Eye-Definition” graphics
- New and advanced architecture
- Full DirectX® 11 support
- Scalable geometry processing technology
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Dual advanced programmable hardware tessellation units
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 4.1 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
- Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- New and advanced architecture
- AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology1
- Native support for up to 4 simultaneous displays
- Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
- Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
- Native support for up to 4 simultaneous displays
- AMD App Acceleration2
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology3,4
- OpenCL 1.1 Support
- DirectCompute 11
- Double Precision Floating Point
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
- MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
- VC-1
- MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
- Multi-View Codec (MVC)
- MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)
- Adobe Flash
- Enhanced Video Quality features
- Advanced post-processing and scaling
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology3,4
- AMD HD3D technology5
- Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
- Blu-ray 3D support
- Stereoscopic 3D gaming
- 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
- AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
- Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling
- Cutting-edge integrated display support
- DisplayPort 1.2
- Max resolution: 2560×1600 per display
- Multi-Stream Transport
- 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
- High bit-rate audio
- HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
- Max resolution: 1920×1200
- Dual-link DVI with HDCP
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- VGA
- Max resolution: 2048×1536
- DisplayPort 1.2
- Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
- AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology3
- AMD PowerTune technology
- Intelligent power management hardware
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
- AMD PowerTune technology
- AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
- Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
- AMD Catalyst™ Control Center – AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
- Unified Graphics display driver – AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.
Suggested AMD Radeon™ HD 6950 System Requirements
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended7
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to https://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
- Minimum 1GB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
- DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
- Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
- For an AMD CrossFireX™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
- Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle. See https://www.amd.com/EyefinityDongles for a list of validated DisplayPort dongles.
Footnotes
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Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.
- AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.
- AMD App Accelerationis a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology and/or AMD’s Universal Video Decoder (UVD).
- AMD PowerPlay™ and AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain AMD Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
- Requires application support for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology. AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology works with applications designed to take advantage of its GPU acceleration capabilities.
- AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at https://www.amd.com/HD3D.
- AMD CrossFireX™ technology requires an AMD CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
- Minimum recommended system power supply wattage is based on the specific graphics card and the typical power requirements of other system components. Your system may require more or less power. OEM and other pre-assembled PCs may have different power requirements.