More details on AMD Radeon HD 6970. 3DMark 11 results

On the edge of official announcement of new Radeon HD 6900 series graphics cards, one of the German forums has leaked some photos of PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 card:

Together with a short photo session a lucky graphic card owner did not mind sharing benchmark results of the novelty.

GPU-z 0.4.9, a tool to display info on graphic card specs, showed the following:

Update: True info on Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6970 graphics cards is displayed using updated GPU-z version

A test run of the latest benchmark, 3DMark 11, has resulted in Radeon HD 6970 having P4939 points in Performance mode:

Some 3DMark 11 test details :

Our test including GeForce GTX 470 has ended with slightly lower results:

Summing up, first results indicate AMD Radeon HD 6970 performance level being close to the one of GeForce GTX 480 / GeForce GTX 570.

It seems that AMD has missed a time advantage they had to develop new graphics cards of high-performance. But do not forget that there will be a new AMD flagship graphics card released right after New Year celebrations — Radeon HD 6990.

In addition:

In addition, here are HD 6970 details of of 3DMark 11 benchmark run with Extreme settings:

Heaven 2.1 score:

3DMark Vantage (Performance) results:

Score in 3DMark Vantage (High):