14 DAY TRIAL // Though it wasn't as quick as some of its competitors, PowerColor has now made the official introduction of its own redesigned versions of the AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950.
As enthusiasts no doubt know, Advanced Micro Devices, not too long ago, brought out its own Radeon HD 6000 Series high-end graphics adapters.
The boards are based on the Cayman graphics processing unit and are faced with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570.
Either way, quite a few custom versions of both the Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 have been developed by AMD's partners.
In fact, PowerColor just showed off its latest duo, this once equipped with non-reference cooling, a dual-slot solution with 8mm copper heatpipes and a pair of 9.2mm fans.
The PowerColor HD 6970 has 1,536 Stream processors, 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, a memory interface of 256 bits and clocks of 880 MHz for the GPU and 5,500 MHz for the memory.
The other one, the PowerColor HD 6950, has 1,408 Stream Processors, the same amount of GDDR5 and frequencies of 800 MHz and 5,000 MHz for the GPU and memory, respectively.
"To provide a better gaming experience to all gamers, PowerColor announces its own design version right after the reference card launch," says Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation.
"Taking advantage of its unique cooling design, PowerColor HD6900 series can boost up the gaming performance in a cool and quiet environment, fulfilled the hungry gamers' demands," he added.
All in all, the new graphics cards should prove to be cooler and less noisy than the reference models.
One can also assume that, through the clocks are the same as the stock settings, users will be able to perform their own tweaks and overclocking.
Regardless, both newcomers feature HDMI, dual mini DisplayPort and dual-DVI video outputs, though no word was said on pricing.