Guide: How to Easily Turn Your AMD Radeon 6950 into a 6970

Unless you really like spending extra money on graphics cards for the fun of it, you're likely to want to maximize the performance of your graphics card. Oftentimes, that’s limited to overclocking functions, given that most cards in a graphics card series usually have different hardware specs. However, that is not the case with AMD Radeon HD 6950 and 6970. The 6950 and 6970 use pretty much the same hardware, with the primary difference being the software (BIOS) on the card.

Unless you want to buy a pre-modded card, we found the best and easiest way to do turn a cheaper model into a higher performing one.

There are two ways to go about this, manually or automatically. I attempted the manual option without success and was forced to use the automatic option.

To do this, I used an XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5:





We detail the manual method on the next page...