14 DAY TRIAL // Eurocom has just announced that the company will start shipping the AMD Radeon HD 6970M graphics card in a wide range of notebooks and mobile workstations which should be available for purchase right as we speak. This news comes more than three months after the company revealed that it planned to add the Radeon HD 6970M to its offer.
Until now, the availability of AMD's graphics card in Eurocom's systems has been scarce at best, and some users even complained that Eurocom has shipped its notebooks with engineering samples of the HD 6970M instead of the final product.
However, this announcement should mark the end of these issues and should also mean that the high-end AMD GPU will become available in an wider range of Eurocom systems as well as for DIY-ers interested in upgrading their system.
The Radeon HD 6970M is built using AMD's Blackcomb XT graphics engine and packs 960 streaming processors, 48 texturing units, 32 ROP units as well as a 256-bit wide memory interface.
This is linked to 2GB of Samsung GDDR5 video buffer and its clock speed is set at 900MHz (3600MHz effective). The GPU is clocked at AMD's reference frequency of 680MHz.
Other features include support for DirectX 11, DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4a, hardware video acceleration through UVD 3.0 as well as stereoscopic 3D support (gaming and Blu-ray playback).
The card is compatible with all the notebooks and embedded systems that support MXM 3.0b graphics modules and its TDP is rated at 75W.
According to Eurocom, its specifications make it ideal for applications such as satellite imaging, mapping, surveillance, medical imaging, digital signage, image recognition and robotics.
Tested with an Eurocom Racer notebook that was powered by an Intel Core i7-2920XM processor paired together with 4GB of DDR3-1333 memory and an Intel HM 65 chipset, the graphics card scored P13397 points in 3DMark 11.
Apart from the Eurocom Racer, AMD's Radeon HD 6970M GPU is available in other four of the company's notebook models.