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1. Introduction 2. PowerColor HD6970 Devil 13 2GB (Packaging & Accessories) 3. PowerColor HD6970 Devil 13 2GB 4. PowerColor HD6970 Devil 13 2GB (Super High Res Gallery) 5. Testing Methodology 6. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark 7. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage 8. Synthetic: 3DMark 11 9. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark 2.0 10. Gaming: F1 2011 11. Gaming: HomeFront 12. Gaming: Alien V Predator 13. Gaming: Dead Island 14. Gaming: Tom Clancy HAWX 2 15. Gaming: Resident Evil 5 16. Gaming: Lost Planet 2 17. Gaming: Far Cry 2 18. Gaming: Deus Ex Revolution 19. Technical: Acoustics Performance 20. Technical: Thermal Dynamics 21. Technical: Power Consumption 22. Technical: Overclocking 23. Closing Thoughts 24. View All Pages

AMD’s HD6970 was warmly received when it was launched thanks to the excellent performance and reasonable pricing. The series is due to be replaced soon and Powercolor have decided to push the envelope by releasing one of the fastest clocked HD6970’s ever released in a collectable box with a plethora of extras. They are calling it the ‘Devil 13’.

The Devil 13 is a custom design featuring an enhanced PCB and cooling solution, targeted at the high end enthusiast audience and overclocker. We aim to answer the big question today, is it worth the considerable price premium?



Product PowerColor HD6970 Devil 13 Core Clock speed 880mhz/960mhz Primitive Rate 2 prim/clk Shader Architecture VLIW4 Stream Processors 24 SIMD/1536 ALU Texture Units 96 ROPs/Z-Stencil 32/128 Frame Buffer 2GB GDDR5 Memory Width/Speed 256 bit, 1375mhz/1425mhz Power Connectors 8 pin & 6 pin Display Outputs 2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI

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