[SOLVED] [HELP] GPU-Z showing wrong memory bandwidth for Radeon HD 6950

[bilalshaw]

Hi,

I recently bought a used Radeon HD 6950 with 160 GB/s memory bandwidth. I installed the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI's website.
Display is good and graphics card seems to be working fine but the memory bandwidth shown in Catalyst hardware information and GPU-Z is way less than the card's actual bandwidth. Both software are showing 19.2 GB/s. I don't know if its fine or there's something wrong.

Kindly guide me of what should I do. The shop keeper gave me 15 days check warranty. So I still have time if it is actually a hardware issue.

Thanks and regards

Bilal

 

[mave3]

salam bro..
ply some games...check if there is any stuttering while u play games.
software can tend to get bogas at times..
can be a bios issue as well.
but i wont recommend u to fiddle with the bios.
as things can get messy..
and if there is no such issue while u play games and fps is stable..
then its totally okay nothing to worry about...!!!!

 

[FUEL2009]

Type dxdiag in run and check out the issue there, maybe gpu-z has made a mistake.

 

[bilalshaw]

Hi,

Thank you @mave3 and @FUEL2009.
I found out it was a hardware issue after my screen got stuck after 3-4 minutes in the game.

I claimed the check warranty, and bought a brand new ASUS Radeon R7 360. It's bitrate is less but clocks at higher frequency and also it has 1 year warranty. Lets see, how much time does this card spend with me since my last card was with me for almost 5 years. I still love that card, will probably sell it anyway.

Thank you guys again for help.

Now marking this thread as solved.

Peace.