Testseek.com have collected 145 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe.
October 2010
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The editors liked
Fast
Decent cooler
Overclocking
Largely excellent midrange gaming performance. Improved technologies and video quality over previous-generation cards. Competitively priced.
Stellar general performance for the price
Great power efficiency
Great gaming performance for the price
Stereoscopic 3D support with compatible monitors and HDTVs
Five ports makes connecting multiple monitors easier
Excellent mainstream DX11 graphics performance
Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality
Reduced heat output enables nearly silent cooling fan
Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case
UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback
Improves DisplayPort to 1.2 with display chaining
Supports CrossFire functionality
Decent performance for the £200 class price
DX11 enhancements
New features
Cool and low power draw at 150W top power
The editors didn't like
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Slightly less powerful than same-priced
Overclocked competing cards. Only one dual-link DVI port.
Fledgling 3D support
Doesn't best Nvidia's GTX 480 (or even AMD's own previous-generation HD 5870)
Requires two six-pin power connectors
Blocks adjacent slot
Limited initial AMD HD3D product support
Fails to fix anisotropic texture filtering
Barts GPU yields minimal overclock
Can't quite beat selected GTX460 overclocked parts
Should have been named HD6860 as it's not faster than HD5870
The arrival of the HD 6870 1GB is causing a total reshuffle of GPU pricing from both red and green camps, so you’ll have to forgive us if inevitable price-shifts change the situation post-publishing this article. At time of writing the HD 6870 1GB is s...
Abstract: Our benchmarks clearly show that the HD6850 and HD6870 easily can keep up with the NVIDIA GTX460. As long as they are priced right, we see no reason why they should not become a success. Not only...
Abstract: Notice anything different in that Radeon graphics logo kicking back off to the left here? If not, you weren't paying attention, so forty lashes for you with a bump-mapped, specular lit, highly tesselated wet noodle. Though AMD may have finally decide...
Abstract: A little over a year ago, AMD released the ATI Radeon HD 5000 family of graphics products and by doing so, AMD became the first company to offer DirectX 11 compatibility when Windows 7 was launched. This was a big deal and over the past year AMD has...
Excellent mainstream DX11 graphics performance, Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality, Reduced heat output enables nearly silent cooling fan, Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case, UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback, Improves DisplayPort to 1.2 with display chaining, Supports CrossFire functionality,
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
Great gaming performance for the price, Stereoscopic 3D support with compatible monitors and HDTVs, Five ports makes connecting multiple monitors easier
Doesn't best Nvidia's GTX 480 (or even AMD's own previous-generation HD 5870), Requires two six-pin power connectors, Blocks adjacent slot
AMD’s latest gaming card doesn’t outperform Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480, but it's surprisingly close considering it costs about half the price. It’s a great choice for all but the most demanding gamers. ...
Abstract: Nov 6 2010 - The AMD Radeon HD 6870 is a second-generation DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory. Featuring the new "Barts" chip, the Radeon 6870 offers faster tessellation and AMD HD3D support for 3D gaming. Although it does not repl...
Abstract: Overclocking has long been used to get the most possible performance out of computer components. With the release of AMD’s HD 6800-series and NVIDIA’s answering price drops on GTX 460 1GB cards, many people wondered how these competing products lined ...
Abstract: The HD 5800 series cards have been very popular but their time in the market is coming to an end. Today marks the release of AMD’s new HD 6870 1GB and HD 6850 1GB GPUs. These are products which will be the first step towards “refreshing” the entire R...
