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MSI R6970 Lightning

Videocards/VGA Reviews by petervandamned @ 2011-12-20

On the market from april 2011. Still ATI's fasted single GPU card. Before the new 7000 serie hits the market, we will have a look and tests on MSI's R6970 Lighting. Fast enough with the normal air Twin Frozr III as we can see in the tests.

Running stock settings

Time for some results at standard speeds of 940Mhz GPU and 1375Mhz of memory clocks, using the 11.12 catalyst driver:

Running at idle speeds at 250 Mhz and 150Mhz only:

However on testing the setting will level up to the standard clocks. Like I did in my previous review we start with the F1 2011 game benchmark. Setting at ultra and the GP circuit of Monaco at place 24 and last.

Next in line was the Far Cry2 benchmark:

Crysis 2 Hardcore :

Mafia 2 :

And ending the standard out of the box tests with some 3dmark 06 and Vantage action:

All these results are run without any system tweaks. Just a straight forward and fresh installed ATI driver. The 2500k will still be the bothleneck for real high score but what the heck,how can the 6970 be overclocked ?

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