MSI R6970 LIGHTNING

AMD’s HD6970 has been a popular card since it was launched and some partners have been releasing modified versions based on the AMD reference design. Today we are looking at a rather spectacular design from MSI which features the latest update on their high performance Twin Frozr cooler.

Rawarontex has looked at many of the Twin Frozr designs in the past, and we have found that they always deliver class leading cooling performance while emitting very little noise.
The MSI R6970 Lightning Twin Frozr III graphics card has the newest version of the cooler with improved heatpipe design and the world’s first 18 Phase PWM design. With a generous overclock to 940mhz, is this the best HD6970 available on the market today?

Product	AMD HD6970	MSI R6970 Lightning TFIII
Core Clock speed	880mhz	940 mhz
Primitive Rate	2 prim/clk	2 prim/clk
Shader Architecture	VLIW4	VLIW4
Stream Processors	24 SIMD/1536 ALU	24 SIMD/1536 ALU
Texture Units	96	96
ROPs/Z-Stencil	32/128	32/128
Frame Buffer	2GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5
Memory Width/Speed	256 bit, 5.5 Gbps	256 bit, 5.5 Gbps
Power Connectors	8 pin & 6 pin	8 pin & 8 pin
Display Outputs	2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI	2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI

taken from : www.kitguru.net