The Card

PowerColor's card uses a menacing design with a large cooler and a black backplate on the other side. The color theme reminds me a bit of cards like the ASUS MARS II.


The card requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity is two DVI ports, one full size HDMI port and two mini-DisplayPorts. Adapters for analog VGA and full-size DisplayPort are included in the package.

An HDMI sound device is included in the GPU, too. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible which includes HD audio and support for Blu-ray 3D movies. The DisplayPort interface is DisplayPort 1.2 compliant which allows the use of a DisplayPort hub to connect multiple monitors, or daisy chain them together.


You may combine up to four HD 6970 cards from any vendor in a multi-GPU CrossFire configuration for higher framerater or better image quality settings.


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