SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 Video Cards Announced

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SAPPHIRE has announced the released of their AMD Radeon HD 6900 series of video cards along with an exclusive promotion with the brand new game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. SAPPHIRE will bundle a voucher in the SAPPHIRE HD 6970 Gaming Edition for users to download the full game as soon as it is available on December 21st. An additional SAPPHIRE HD 6970 Limited Edition will feature the card and game voucher delivered in a special Aluminium carry case. The regular SAPPHIRE HD 6970 will not have the game voucher.

The new SAPPHIRE HD 6970 uses a new GPU architecture from AMD which features dual graphics engines in one chip with 24 SIMD engines and a total of 1536 stream processors with 96 texture units, providing massively parallel computing power for graphics and other accelerated applications. Its core clock speed of 880MHz, together with a dedicated high speed interface to 2GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375MHz (5.5Gb/s effective) delivers the highest performance in this series. New Tesselation engines bring up to three times the performance of the previous generation, and new Enhanced Quality AA and filtering modes bring the highest image quality ever achieved.

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