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The HIS HD6970 Turbo is shipped in the same box as the regular HIS HD6970, with a ‘turbo' sticker located top right.
The bundle contains a several power adapters, a VGA converter, installation literature and a crossfire connector.
The card itself is built around the official AMD reference design with a branded HIS sticker on top.
The card is 2/3/4 way CrossfireX compatible and it requires a 6 pin and an 8 pin power connector, same as the reference design.
The output layout is exactly the same as the reference design, offering 2xDVI ports, two mini displayport connectors and a full sized HDMI connector. Three screens can be connected to this card, although if you use displayport capable panels, this can be increased.
The cooler is also the reference design unit, which we have looked at before. It is based around a copper GPU clock with an aluminum heatsink design, supported to the right by the traditional, small red AMD cooling fan.
This card has a 20mhz ‘out of the box' overclock, when compared next to the reference edition, which is clocked at 880mhz. The memory also receives a small boost to 1400mhz (from 1375mhz), giving an effective 5.6Gbps of bandwidth across the 256 bit memory interface. The card has 32 ROPs, 2GB of GDDR5 and there are 1536 unifed Shaders. It supports PCIe 2.1, DirectX 11 and DirectCompute, as well as hardware acceleration of high definition media content with supported applications. 7.1 audio can be output via the HDMI port, including Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio.
Well this is rather disappointing, especially after that sexy powercolor card you reviewed last week. I hadnt forgotten about it !
£20 for a 20mhz core increase and a bit of an OC on the memory? I can do that myself with CCC and spend that £20 on some drinks :p
Good cards, but I agree, this isn’t really hitting the spot for me, seems a bit cheeky really as its a complete reference design.
This is a nice card, all 6970s are nice ! powercolor card has me spoiled, that was awesome.
Fair score, I was thinking it might be a 7, but the hardware is that good that would be unfair. any higher than 8 is overly generous, as the powercolor one tested here last week is miles ahead and deserves the gold award.
Man, bad time for HIS to release this, after the powercolor PCS+, MSI HAWK, Sapphire Flex and the Asus GTX580 direct CU ! what awesome boards in the last week.
Yeah, dont really think this is such a good deal. id rather get a reference card for £20 less, and oc it myself.
I just bought a 6970 myself, picked it up for £260 and have overclocked it to 960mhz, faster than this HIS, and £40 less 🙂
yeah, im feeling smug, so what :p
Good review, thanks for the testing. ill give this one a miss and get their reference model, as our local store is selling it for £270 inc vat.
I dont mind HIS, good products with some of their range. This one however is a miss for me, because I dont think companies should get away with selling bios adjusted cards for £20 more. there is no extra work, and a ‘turbo’ sticker doesnt cost anything extra.
every HD6970 ever made hits 920mhz, so there is no hand selection going on here Zardon, that was a rather optimistic closing comment from you.
Waste of money, I can modified bioses myself and I dont have to pay £20 for the priveledge.
Good card, but its nothing out of the ordinary. Not sure they will sell many of these when there are alternatives offering better specifications and coolers etc.
very disappointing for a HIS release. Sad that they couldn’t put IceQ X on it. 6870 with IceQ is my dream card for now:)