The Sapphire HD6900 series is based on the second generation of AMD graphics technology that supports all modern functions of Microsoft Direct X 11 & Direct Compute 11. The new graphic processors manufactured by AMD in the 40 nm process are designed for maximum performance with low power consumption. An enhanced tessellation unit, new AA & image filtering options, a dedicated HDR texture compression, Multi-Threading with CPU cores, embedded support for several Direct Compute 11, instructions, support for stereoscopic 3D displays as well as HDMI 1.4a belong to the modern hardware features.
Eyefinity
In addition to spectacular image quality, processing power & great visual effects, the HD6900 series supports Eyefinity mode. By controlling several monitors via a single graphics processor, this concept offers completely new options for gaming, IT & multimedia systems as well as advertisement displays.
Video, audio & 3D
The HD6900 series has a built-in hardware UVD (Unified Video decoder of the 3rd generation), which significantly reduces the CPU load & a smooth decoding of Blu-ray & HD DVD contents as well as for the codecs VC-1, H.264 & MPEG files. In addition, the card offers support for Multiple Video Coding for Blu-ray 3D.
Application boosting
The Multistream processors of the HD6900 Series allow further boosting of applications such as video transcoding. The GPU acceleration supports the current generation of Web browser & provides enhanced productivity for Microsoft Office 2010.