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AMD Radeon™ HD 6950
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Weapon of choice! Make sure that you choose wisely and are equipped with a graphics card custom fit to your specific needs. Which is why you’ll want the XFX AMD Radeon™ HD 6950 Graphics Card. The HD 6950 does what other cards can only claim: outperform its similarly equipped competition. This series of Radeon HD graphics cards is AMD’s 3-D gaming and multi-media solution for desktop computers, plus the next level of HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2 solutions for Stereoscopic 3-D, including 2GB of GDDR5 memory. XFX also offers you additional versions with enhanced cooling solutions, plus overclocked editions of these cards to custom fit the specific needs of the gamer. No matter which version you choose, XFX makes sure you get to draw your weapon first.

KEY FEATURES

2 GB GDDR5 High Speed Memory
AMD HD3D Technology
PCI-E 2.1 Bus Support
Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology up to 4 displays
AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU Support
3rd Generation TeraScale Engine
Accelerated Video Transcoding, Encoding, and Upscaling
AMD PowerPlay™ Technology
Enhanced Unified Video Decoder (UVD 3)
Enhanced Internet Browser Application Support
Enhanced Microsoft Office 2010 Support
HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D, Deep Color and xvyCC extended gamut

Bus Type N/A	PCI-E 2.1
Performance N/A	Black, Standard
GPU Clock MHz The main attributes of the GPU are the core clock rate, which typically ranges from 250 MHz to 1200 MHz in modern cards.	800 MHz
Memory Interface Bus (bit) The bit data rate between memory and the GPU.	256
Memory Type VRAM was typically based on DDR technology. During and after that year, manufacturers moved towards the vastly superior DDR2, GDDR3 and GDDR4.	DDR5
Memory Size (MB) the video card will have its own video memory which is called Video RAM or VRAM. The VRAM capacity of most modern video cards range from 128 MB to 2.0 GB.	2048 MB
Memory Clock (MHz) The memory clock rate in modern cards are generally between 400 MHz and 2.4 GHz.	5000 MHz
Minimum Power Requirement (Watt) The standard for today's PCs and next-generation consoles enables stunning and complex effects for cinematic realism. XFX graphics cards offer the most complete implementation of the Shader Model feature set-including vertex texture fetch (VTF)-to ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all DirectX applications.	XFX 650W XXX edt PSU
Cooling Fansink Sometimes known as an active cooling device, a small electrical fan which drives air across a heat sink and as such will generate a small amount of noise. It is more effective than a heat sink alone at cooling.	v
ROHS The RoHS Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment". This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.	v
Profile Some graphics cards have the capability to swap out the current bracket to make it compatible with low-profile computer systems that require a lower bracket card.	Double
ATI Radeon CrossFireX™ Technology ATI CrossFireX™Technology with up to quad GPU support offers superior scalability so your system is ready to level up when you are.	v
ATI Radeon PowerPlay™ Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings. Performance-on-Demand allows you to constantly monitor GPU activity and dynamically adjust clocks and voltage based on user scenarios.	v
Dimensions (Imperial) N/A	11.3 x 4.38 x 1.5
Dimensions (Metric) N/A	28.7 x 11.12 x 3.81
Max Resolution Analog Maximum Screen Resolution indicates the maxiumum possible sharpness and clarity of an image that a monitor can display, measured in number of dots (pixels).	2048 x 1536
Max Resolution Digital Maximum Screen Resolution indicates the maxiumum possible sharpness and clarity of an image that a monitor can display, measured in number of dots (pixels).	2560 x 1600
DisplayPort DisplayPort is designed to be the future-ready, scalable solution for high performance digital display connectivity. It enables the highest resolutions, the fastest refresh rates and deepest color depths over standard cables.	1

System Requirements

XFX 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 recommended
(600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for AMD CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)

Certified power supplies are recommended.
Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
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