Powercolor HD6970 Graphics Card Review

Stone Giant is a benchmark tech demo that showcases and measures DirectX 11 performance using the BitSquid Engine. This is a very heavy tessellation dependant benchmark which runs very well on nVidia hardware.

Stone Giant has been surrounded in a little controversy lately, in our recent interview with AMD guru Richard Huddy he said “With artificial tests like Stone Giant, which was paid for by nVidia, tessellation can be done down to the single pixel level. Even though that pixel can’t be broken away from the 3 other pixels in its quad. Doing additional processing for each pixel in a group of 4 and then throwing 75% of that work away is just sad”.”

The HD6970 shows a significant improvement with this benchmark, from 37 fps compared with the HD5870's 46 fps – a 25 percent performance increase.

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