AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Review

Written by Harry Butler

February 11, 2011 | 11:48

Tags: #6950 #black-ops #cod #speed #temp #temperature #thermal

Companies: #amd

Call of Duty: Black Ops


Publisher: Activision

From our Call of Duty: Black Ops review:

'Black Ops simply refuses to commit to a single theatre of violence; there are battles in tropical trenches, frozen tundra, barren wastelands and across night-blanketed rooftops. Mason and Co. fight on land, on water, in the air and beneath the oceans - the constant movement from one to another is enough to partly compensate for the enormous plot holes and occasional dud levels.'

We test with the game at its maximum detail settings as configured in the in-game menus. The maximum frame rate is capped at 91fps by default, so we've increased this to 250fps in the config file. We play through a 60-econd section of the Vorkuta mission, involving the death machine mini-gun and the subsequent carnage and explosions it causes.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops

1,680 x 1,050 0x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 768MB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 122
    • 97
    • 122
    • 97
    • 115
    • 92
    • 122
    • 85
    • 122
    • 85
    • 117
    • 79
    • 110
    • 78
    • 110
    • 78
    • 108
    • 78
    • 108
    • 78
    • 110
    • 75
    • 103
    • 75
    • 103
    • 68
    • 100
    • 60
    • 96
    • 60
    • 90
    • 59
    • 86
    • 52
    • 60
    • 40
0
25
50
75
100
125
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Call of Duty: Black Ops

1,680 x 1,050 4x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 108
    • 78
    • 110
    • 78
    • 107
    • 74
    • 106
    • 74
    • 103
    • 70
    • 110
    • 70
    • 105
    • 68
    • 107
    • 65
    • 103
    • 64
    • 95
    • 60
    • 80
    • 55
    • 90
    • 54
    • 88
    • 54
    • 84
    • 51
    • 90
    • 50
    • 76
    • 48
    • 60
    • 37
    • 48
    • 27
0
25
50
75
100
125
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Call of Duty: Black Ops

1,920 x 1,200 0x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 768MB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 121
    • 87
    • 117
    • 84
    • 110
    • 83
    • 118
    • 81
    • 110
    • 78
    • 110
    • 78
    • 106
    • 74
    • 110
    • 71
    • 103
    • 69
    • 102
    • 66
    • 101
    • 66
    • 90
    • 60
    • 85
    • 56
    • 90
    • 54
    • 79
    • 51
    • 83
    • 50
    • 72
    • 41
    • 51
    • 33
0
25
50
75
100
125
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Call of Duty: Black Ops

1,920 x 1,200 4x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 106
    • 76
    • 103
    • 72
    • 105
    • 65
    • 103
    • 63
    • 89
    • 59
    • 95
    • 57
    • 89
    • 56
    • 91
    • 55
    • 91
    • 53
    • 79
    • 53
    • 81
    • 51
    • 80
    • 50
    • 76
    • 49
    • 75
    • 46
    • 70
    • 44
    • 64
    • 44
    • 50
    • 28
    • 39
    • 24
0
25
50
75
100
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Call of Duty: Black Ops

2,560 x 1,600 0x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 94
    • 57
    • 87
    • 57
    • 87
    • 57
    • 94
    • 56
    • 87
    • 55
    • 86
    • 54
    • 84
    • 48
    • 74
    • 47
    • 75
    • 46
    • 75
    • 45
    • 70
    • 43
    • 68
    • 40
    • 65
    • 38
    • 60
    • 33
    • 59
    • 30
    • 55
    • 29
    • 47
    • 27
    • 31
    • 19
0
25
50
75
100
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Call of Duty: Black Ops

2,560 x 1,600 4x AA 16xAF, OpenGL, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 768MB
  • AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
    • 85
    • 55
    • 78
    • 50
    • 78
    • 49
    • 76
    • 42
    • 72
    • 42
    • 63
    • 39
    • 60
    • 38
    • 67
    • 37
    • 61
    • 35
    • 55
    • 35
    • 53
    • 31
    • 53
    • 30
    • 48
    • 29
    • 50
    • 29
    • 47
    • 26
    • 44
    • 25
    • 31
    • 19
    • 26
    • 15
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Frame Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

For explanation of what these numbers mean, head to the Results Analysis page.
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