How does the Ati 6970 compare?

#1 04-21-2011, 05:15 AM

ATI 6970 vs Nvidia equivalent?

I'm going to upgrade this weekend , and looking to spend around $300-400 on a card. The new cards now have 4GB of memory so why bother spending huge when in 6mths they will be half that price.

How does this card go with COD?

JG14_Jagr · #2 04-21-2011, 05:19 AM

I have an XFX 6970 and it runs COD extremely well at 1920X1200 everything set to HIGH and SSAO Off and Epilepsy filter OFF

Flanker35M · #3 04-21-2011, 05:31 AM

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PowerColor 6970HD here and happy with it

RocketDog · #4 04-21-2011, 06:31 AM

The performance is very good, but there seem to be some minor graphics problems with ATi cards and CloD at present. It looks like the haze does not go down to the horizon giving a blue line where it stops and there are occasional black lines on the ground. It sounds horrible, but it's actually not too noticeable. Several people have posted here with the same problem so it looks universal and hopefully the devs will fix it. For myself, it's left me half thinking I should have bought a GTX570 or 580 instead - but then I wouldn't have been able to get the security of 2 GB of video RAM. Ho hum.

phoenix1963 · #5 04-21-2011, 06:35 AM

Machoo - I had a very similar system to you and upgraded the graphics card to an XFX 6950 2GB, recently I flashed it into a 6970 (see here http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/159 , but reduced the clocks back to 6950 settings just in case). Save yourself £60!

I runs CoD pretty well, with most settings on high, but I do have an old crappy monitor at 1280x1024.

Actually, the VBIOS flash didn't make much of a difference, so I suspect the rest of my machine is limiting (Q9550, 6GB RAM, Win 7-64, cheapish SSD).

The only thing I'd add is that there are some graphics artifacts (before & after VBIOS flash) that I get and others report http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=21710 , as we're all ATI users I suspect it's a video driver problem common to all ATI cards.

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phoenix1963 · #6 04-21-2011, 06:41 AM

In theory a pretty similar option (price and performance) to my 6950 from the other camp is a 560Ti with 2GB VRAM.

Anyone care to comment on that option?

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