The Card
Lovely looking card. Dual fan for airflow across the heatsink fins from front to back.
Copper heatpipe visible.
8pin + 6pin PCI-E power connector.
6 output port for Eyefinity! 🙁 As for HDMI output, you can use the DVI to HDMI adaptor converter.
Card Details
More details at the official product page……… Oh yeah, I forgot to take a GPU-Z screenie of it.
Test Setup
The computer setup used for this review.
Processor | Intel Core i5-2500K |
RAM | Kingston Value RAM 4GB 1333 |
Motherboard | MSI P67A-GD65 |
Cooler | Intel stock cooler |
Monitor | 20″ Dell Ultra-sharp Wide-screen LCD |
Power Supply | Cooler Master GX 650W |
Operating System | Windows 7 32bit |
Driver Version | ATI Catalyst 11.6 |
The Performance
World In Conflict
Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050
Card | Average |
ASUS HD 6950 | 67 |
Leadtek GTX 460 | 58 |
Looks like it’s in between the GTS 450 and GTX 460.
Crysis
Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050
Card | Average |
ASUS HD 6950 | 39.72 |
Leadtek GTX 460 | 24.22 |
Mafia II
Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050
Card | Average |
ASUS HD 6950 | 18 |
Leadtek GTX 460 | 34 |
*The Radeon HD 6950 cards fail badly with Physx enabled. When Physx disabled, it goes to 58.4 fps.
Furmark
Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050
Card | Average |
ASUS HD 6950 | 54 |
Leadtek GTX 460 | 64 |
Unigine Heaven 2.0
Graphic Detail : 1680×1050, 4xAA, 16xAF, Tesselation at NORMAL.
Card | Average |
ASUS HD 6950 | 46.3 |
Leadtek GTX 460 | 31.8 |
The DirectCU II cooler was effective in maintaining the stressed 200w card at 76°.
Conclusion
If you have a budget to spare and want good framerates and something that you wouldn’t have to worry about over-heating, then I think you should consider this card.
Priced at nearly RM 1,000 – you get a great cooler and an ASUS quality product.
This video card makes clear and sparkling color and sound to the delight of my ears full. I feel the smile come from the warm heart of self as the color and sound bring forward the beauty of NEO-Gulf.
Such a video card can be expected to have a long life inside the computer, where it is protected from rain and vermin (as it would if the video card was left out in the weather). Bearing in mind that the video card is kept to happy temperatures it will operate with sparkling color and sound for many years to come.
The casual user should note that drinks should not be care to spill on video card, either when it is turned on or off. The user should also check at least once a month for signs of rodent pests like rats and mice from damaging the card. This can be easily done be unscrewing the side plate of your computer and peering inside. Look for rat or mouse urine on the capacitors, it must be wiped off because of short circuit and bad smell.