AMD Radeon™ HD 6970 GPU Feature Summary:

• GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express® 2.1  x16 bus interface
• "EyeDefinition" graphics
  • Second generation graphics with full DirectX® 11 support

    DirectCompute 11

    Programmable hardware tessellation unit

    Accelerated Multi-threading

    HDR texture compression

    Order-independent transparency

  • Image quality enhancement technology
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
• AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration³
  • AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology

    OpenCL Support

    DirectCompute 11

    Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling²

  • UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
  • Enhanced Video Quality features

    Advanced post-processing and scaling

    Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction

    Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)

    Independent video gamma control

    Dynamic video range control

  • AMD HD3D technology

    Stereoscopic 3D display / glasses support

    Blu-ray 3D support

    Stereoscopic 3D gaming

    3^rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

  • AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁵

    Dual GPU scaling³

  • Cutting-edge integrated display support

    Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP

    Integrated HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D

    Integrated VGA output

  • Integrated HD audio controller

    Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required

    Support AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats

  • AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology

    Dynamic power management with low power idle state

    Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations

  • AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software

    Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

    AMD Catalyst™ Control Center – AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of ATI Radeon products

    Unified Graphics display driver – AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products

AMD Radeon™ HD 6970 System Requirements

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 550 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for AMD CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse and a display
• DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and Blu-ray disc
• For an AMD CrossFireX™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series Graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX™ ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required