Which 6950 to get

If only things were so simple. That's why I think hope, really that a large number of next-gen low and mid range cards will be mostly silent, and very efficient. I'd think that's a pretty strong competitor as well. Yeah it cost twice as much to. The metro benches are on medium that's why Try asking Asus?

If you don't see a card it's because the company decided not to use it. Thumbs down for not reading the text below those charts: The benchmark for this game also reports minimum frame rates, and most players will only be able to see apparent smoothness at x using medium details with AA disabled producing around 19 FPS minimum. The test was set up to produce playable framerates in the sample map. The tests showed a minimum framerate of around Obviously, the sample map pushes these graphics cards harder than the maps you're currently playing.

You'll still see it fall off at x more than the 2GB version : Not that anyone actually buys a single 1GB to run x or higher in Metro at very-high settings, CrossFire does exist for a reason. Your CPU might be the bottleneck. If you get an error like ID mismatch or Could not erase ROM, then you'll have to do some extra work in a Windows command prompt or DOS : Run atiwinflash -unlockrom 0 followed by atiwinflash -f -p 0 bios.

Update: I have uploaded a pack of all the files required together with some batch files to ease the process for less experienced users. You can download it here , please report success or any issues with the scripts in the comments for this article.

Feel free to post in the discussion thread for this article if you need additional assistance with the flashing process. Testing We can see that enabling the shaders without any clock increases improves performance. Once the clock speeds are adjusted to match the HD , the card effectively performs just as well as a full blown Radeon HD We see that even when modded, the HD at HD shaders and clocks runs into the PowerTune limit earlier than the regular HD which results in reduced power draw but also reduced performance in Furmark.

With a power consumption of W, the modded HD is well below the W specification limit of the HD power configuration. This move also improves rendering performance by a good deal, so I would recommend it to all users who perform this mod and have a half-decent power supply.

What if something goes wrong? So you flashed the BIOS and your card doesn't work for one reason or the other? If your card boots fine but does not work reliably in 3D, you can just boot the card and flash back the original BIOS of your card that's why you should always save your BIOS before doing any flashing experiments. This will let you boot the card without problems.

What about default BIOS? The following text will include description of modification itself, therefore, before you will attempt to repeat the actions described below, you need to agree with two statements, as follows: We confirm successful unlocking on references design Radeon HD 2GB cards only.

By checking cards specs with GPU-z tool, we seen that SP number has changed but not the clocks, they are on default level: Next step is to check voltage levels and temperature values of the card. Leave a Reply Comment. Email Your email address will not be published. Website optional. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Cancel reply. Search for: Search.