Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Flex Edition

Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition Review

Following up on the recent release of the HD 6870 FleX, Sapphire is introducing the HD 6950 FleX Edition video card to bring the performance level up a couple notches for the FleX series. This gives the gamer the ability to run a three monitor SLS (Single Large Surface) display with lower-priced, DVI-equipped monitors. What makes this special when the HD 6970 and standard HD 6950 can do that? Well yes they can, but either DisplayPort-equipped monitors or expensive active DP to DVI adapters are required to make the solution work. Sapphire eliminates this expense with the FleX Edition HD 6950 by allowing the two DVI ports and an HDMI to DVI adapter (included) to become the connectivity option of choice to feed three less expensive DVI monitors. Under the surface, you still get all the HD 6950 features, such as full DirectX 11 support, Dolby TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM Support, VLIW4 shader architecture, Vapor Chamber cooling, and AMD Advanced Parallel Processing Technology. The Cayman GPU still sports 22 SIMD, 1408 Streaming processors, 88 texture units, 32 ROPs, and a 2GB frame buffer running through a 256-bit bus. Clock speeds are still bone-stock HD 6950 clocks at 800MHz on the core and 1250MHz on the GDDR5 memory.