Its summer time and now hardcore gamers must be getting ready to spend their quality time on hardcore gaming. If we talk about gaming then the first and foremost thing that comes to our mind is a good video card. So here I have mentioned some of the high end graphics card available till date. These are the some of the finest available cards that you can opt to upgrade your pc. These graphics card are not meant for gamers only but also for those who use video editing as their profession.
AMD & NVIDIA
Amd and Nvidia are two top well known graphics card manufacturer ruling the world for years. When these two manufacturer got involved in this field, a stiff competition is seen between these two. One is known for manufacturing all round and best graphics card where as the other is known for building massive cards specially for gaming. AMD and NVIDIA are both equally placed and are favorite of all. I specially prefer AMD/ATI graphics card just because they are like Bazooka infront of nvidia which seems to be like bullets of desert eagle. If you want some ultimate gaming experience then in my opinion I would suggest you to go for an AMD based graphics card and recently the news is that AMD beats Nvidia In Single-CPU Graphics Performance. So now lets discuss some of the graphics card that you can go for high end gaming.
AMD Radeon HD 6990
AMD Raedon HD 6990 is one of the finest graphics card launched from ATI and has taken the 6 series to the next level of gaming. Raedon HD 6990 graphics card will has one advantage that allows you to process enormous no of bits of information simultaneously, which advances the speed of rendering high-resolution video and graphics. AMD Raedon HD 6990 comes with 4GB of GDDR 5 memory. I rank this card in the top place just because it has an impressive clock speed of 2.5 GHz which out runs all other graphics cards. We all know that an dual core is always better than a single core but in the recent state AMD has shown that a they can build cards that are based on a single PCIe expansion slot and produce as much graphics as possible.
Features of AMD Raedon HD 6990
- Harnessing the incredible power of dual second-generation DirectX 11-capable GPUs
- AMD Radeon HD 6990 is quite simply the fastest graphics card in the world
- Featuring 4GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory, AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 is the definitive solution for ultra-high resolution gaming across up to six simultaneous displays.
- Break barriers & Crush records.
- Higher clocks.
- Faster gaming.
- Devastatingly intelligent power management.
Specification of AMD Raedon HD 6990
- Up to 830MHz Engine Clock
- 5.10 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power
- 1.27 TFLOPs Double Precision Compute Power
- Up to 880MHz Engine Clock
- 5.40 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power o 1.37 TFLOPs Double Precision Compute Power
- OpenGL 4.1 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
- Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- Native support for up to 5 simultaneous displays
- Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
- Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
- OpenCL 1.1 Support
- DirectCompute 11
- Double Precision Floating Point
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
- MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
- VC-1
- MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
- Multi-View Codec (MVC)
- MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)
- Adobe Flash
- 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
- Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
- Blu-ray 3D support
- Stereoscopic 3D gaming
- 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
- DisplayPort 1.2
- Max resolution: 2560×1600 per display
- Multi-Stream Transport
- 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
- High bit-rate audio
- HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920×1200
- Dual-link DVI with HDCP
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
- AMD PowerTune technology
- Intelligent power management hardware
- 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
- Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
- AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Unified Graphics display driver
Conclusion
The AMD Raedon HD 6990 is a masterpiece made by AMD and has an textured fill rate that is unmatched by any other graphics card but the one problem that you will notice about this graphics card is the noise produced when used heavily, other than that its an awesome card that you can go for. This Graphics card is now available at the nearest store at a price tag of $1000 USD.
ATI Radeon HD 5970
This Radeon HD 5970 is a great graphics card to play current and future games seamlessly and for that its enough to say that this 5 series graphics card can easily compete with the 6 series and can perform in the same way as they does. This is a dual core card having 2 GB of GDDR 5 memory along with the support for cross fire X. AMD Radeon HD 5970 utilizes their standard Stream parallel computing technology. along with AMD’s Eyefinity that comes bundled with this card and can allow you to use up to 6 monitors simultaneously.
Features Of AMD Raedon HD 5970
- ATI Radeon HD 5970 delivers HD gaming experience
- Features cutting-edge graphic, display and memory technology
- Raedon HD 5970 is specially engineered for speed
Specification of AMD Raedon HD 5970
- 3200 Stream Processing Units
- 160 Texture Units
- 256 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 64 Color ROP Units
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unit
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- Integrated DisplayPort output
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920×1200
- Integrated VGA output
- Max resolution: 2048×1536
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support
- Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
ATI PowerPlay power management technology
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for single and multi-board configurations
Conclusion
This is a very performance oriented graphics card and can run any game seamlessly but the disadvantage is that its too price and is priced at approx $1150 USD.
ATI Radeon HD 6970
The AMD Radeon HD 6970 is the fastest single core graphics card provided by ATI also it performs well according to its configuration. This card’s core is clocked at 880MHz, and it has 1,536 stream processors. AMD Radeon HD 6970 offers 2GB of GDDR5 memory and is clocked at 1.4GHz. For gamers this is also a piece which they can buy to meet their requirements.
Features Of Radeon HD 6970
- No compromise in delivering graphics
- Full support for DirectX 11 and scalable geometry processing.
- Full control of the action on up to six simultaneous displays with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
- Supercharge your applications and experience unprecedented digital video quality with AMD App Acceleration
Specification Of Raedon HD 6970
- 1536 Stream Processors
- 96 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 32 Color ROP Units
- Dual geometry and dual rendering engines
- New and advanced architecture
- Full DirectX 11 support
- Scalable geometry processing technology
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Dual advanced programmable hardware tessellation units
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 4.1 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
- Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology
- OpenCL 1.1 Support
- DirectCompute 11
- Double Precision Floating Point
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
- MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
- VC-1
- MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
- Multi-View Codec (MVC)
- MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid)
- Adobe Flash
- 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
- Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
- Blu-ray 3D support
- Stereoscopic 3D gaming
- 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
- Dual, triple or quad-GPU scaling
- DisplayPort 1.2
- Max resolution: 2560×1600 per display
- Multi-Stream Transport
- 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
- High bit-rate audio
- HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920×1200
- Dual-link DVI with HDCP
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- VGA
- Max resolution: 2048×1536
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
- AMD PowerTune technology
- Intelligent power management hardware
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
Conclusion
This card is good for gamers who are restricted to some extent or for those who want a card that does not cost heavy on their budget but will run all games then they can go for this because it is just priced at $370 USD.
