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Lots of little factors make it impossible to give a definitive number. The 3DMark score is worthless here because it factors in the Physics Score, and that depends primarily on CPU speed.
For what it's worth, though, I ran 3DMark 11 Performance (P) on my stock 6950 and got the following...
I tested again with Bad Company 2 on Cold War (campaign level 2) and was not able to reproduce the stuttering. The stutter also appears to be gone in ZDoom and Minecraft.
I'm pretty positive TriXX was completely shut down last time I tested. Otherwise, all that's changed is giving it about...
I disabled TriXX and set CCC to 880/1375/+20%/manual 40% fan speed. ZDoom still stutters. :(
I'll report back with the results from my testing.
@arroyo: I wouldn't be surprised if you're correct. I know some people have had good luck with their cards, but I imagine many others haven't...
I've had my 6950 since January 2 with nary a problem. BC2, Just Cause 2, Crysis, Warhead, Metro 2033, Pripyat -- you name it, this card runs it without breaking a sweat.
I installed Sapphire TriXX and enabled a more aggressive fan curve such that temps never go above 65-70C, even during...
I'd say count me as +1 to the Sapphire 6950->6970 group -- but I'm not sure.
I flashed the 6970 BIOS and set my clocks to 880/1375 (6970 speeds) and haven't had any artifacting or majorly noticeable visual defects. I had a couple of blue screens caused by switching between single- and...