Sapphire, Inc - 100311-2SR

• PCI Express based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 2 X 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required for CrossFireX system
• 1 X 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required
• Certified power supplies are recommended
• 1024MB Minimum of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Blu-ray / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
• For an AMD CrossFireX system, a second same AMD Radeon graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required
• To support 3 displays, one of the monitors has to support DisplayPort
• 550 Watt Power Supply is required
• 1 X 150 Watt 8-pin PCI Express power connector is required
• 2 X 150 Watt 8-pin PCI Express power connector is required for CrossFireX system

Operating System(s):

• Windows 7

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 Tessellation engines bring three times the performance of the previous generation, and new Enhanced Quality AA and new filtering modes bring the highest image quality ever achieved.