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Sapphire HD6970 2048MB GDDR5 (Dual Fan Edition) Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell November 7, 2011 Announcements, Graphics

Dead Island is a first person horror action-adventure video game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows. It is centered on the challenge of survival on a zombie-infested open world island with a major emphasis on melee combat. It is rather good fun, for a short while, but it becomes repetitive.

No problems powering this modest engine, averaging over 130 fps through our test environment.

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12 comments

  1. Seth
    November 7, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Sweet deal, hopefully see these for £270 at christmas in UK

  2. Brooke
    November 7, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    The cooler looks as good as their vapor X,. they might cause damage to their other, more expensive cards with this. not that im complaining, nice to see a company taking the cost of the cooler themselves. they are making enough profit anyway on these higher end boards.

  3. Jon
    November 7, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    What voltage did you set to get 954MHz core? Thanks.

  4. Davis
    November 7, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    @ Jon.

    1243, its in the picture on the overclocking page.

  5. iain
    November 7, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Looks great, nice to see it being classed as a reference board too. normally that would be over £300

  6. Jon
    November 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    @Davis

    Thanks. That voltage look a little high? My 6970 does 945/1495 on 1185 with a Accelero XTREME Plus II cooler. Might push it a bit higher if thats a fairly safe voltage bump.

  7. Joey
    November 12, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Hi, nice review and I have been reading reviews for 3 6970 cards but still cannot decide on which to buy. Which one would you pick between these 3:
    MSI Radeon 6970 lightning edition
    Sapphire Radeon 6970 dual fan edition
    Sapphire Radeon 6970 Flex Battlefield 3 edition?

  8. Zardon
    November 13, 2011 at 9:40 am

    Depends on your specific needs. do you overclock? have you three non displayport screens? is noise a primary factor?

  9. Joey
    November 14, 2011 at 3:14 am

    will not be overclocking, will only have 1 lcd tv connected using hdmi and yes noise is a primary factor. Basically Im after a stable and quiet setup.

  10. Zardon
    November 14, 2011 at 10:29 am

    They are all great cards, so your shortlist is very good. If you arent overclocking, using a single screen, then save some money and get the dual fan sapphire board as the pricing should be the lowest.

  11. calpern
    November 26, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Can this card run Battlefield 3 on ultra settings?

  12. Zardon
    November 26, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    What resolution?

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