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Eyefinity is an exclusive feature to AMD's Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards, and is a technology that allows gamers to run 3D applications across multiple displays. This gives games the chance to play their favorite titles at massive resolutions, which makes for a more immersive gaming experience. However, even with Eyefinity being supported by all graphics cards in AMD’s latest two graphics series, it is not necessarily supported out-of-the-box.
To address this and make Eyefinity more accessible, Sapphire has developed their FleX series of graphics cards, which integrates circuitry onto the PCB to eliminate the need for expensive active display adapters or DisplayPort monitors. Out of the box, Sapphire's HD 6950 FleX can support up to five monitors that can be setup independently, but it also supports multiple Eyefinity configurations. This gives users of the FleX series a more flexible means to configure their displays to support Eyefinity; thus putting the "FleX" in flexibility. This also lowers the premium of setting up a Eyefinty configuration, as both active display adapters and DisplayPort monitors are quite costly.
To power high resolution gaming Sapphire’s latest FleX edition graphics card is equipped with the Cayman Pro graphics processor. This gives the HD 6950 FleX a total of 1408 Stream processors, 88 Texture units and a core clock speed of 800MHz. In addition, there is a total of 2GB of GDDR5 memory that runs on a 256-bit interface and is clocked at 1200MHz (5Gb/sec effective). With the Cayman Pro GPU and a 2GB frame buffer, the Sapphire HD 6950 FleX edition graphics card should be able to chew through games, even when the resolution is set above 2560x1600.
The Sapphire HD 6950 FleX edition graphics card is currently available and has an MSRP of $299. This means there is a bit of a premium attached to this model, but it comes as the fastest single GPU solution with enhanced out-of-the-box Eyefinity support, and also features a custom design with a robust aftermarket heatsink.
| Specification | |
| Output |
1 x Dual-Link DVI 1 x HDMI 1.4a 2 x Mini-DisplayPort 1 x Single-Link DVI-D DisplayPort 1.2 |
| GPU |
800 MHz Core Clock 40 nm Chip 40 x Stream Processors |
| Memory |
2048 MB Size 256 -bit GDDR5 5000 MHz Effective |
| Dimension | 270(L)x110(W)x40(H) mm Size. |
| Software |
Driver CD SAPPHIRE TriXX Utility |
| Accessory |
CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect Cable DVI to VGA Adapter Mini-DP to DP Cable 6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable x 2 HDMI to SL-DVI Adapter |
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Now, about the review:
How come Crysis 2 isn't on the bench list -- since a 'fresh' title such as Dragon Age 2 is included?
Why the list of tested cards is shorter on games like DA2 and F1 2010?
Crysis Warhead is included in the review. Also, the reason that titles such as DA II and F1 didn't have all the cards in it was because I didn't have enough time to get all the cards tested. I am still testing the cards and in future reviews all the cards will be included.