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
Abstract: The Radeon HD 6870 is the larger, more capable member of AMD's new 6800 series lineup. Priced at a respectable US$239 (as of 10/21/2010), this mid-range graphics card manges to outpace its closest relative -- the Radeon HD5850 (US$279) -- while keeping your bank balance intact.[Compare the Radeon HD 6870 benchmark performance to other graphic cards reviews on PC WorldThe Radeon HD 6800 series offer a new chip architecture, code-named Barts. It's a modified version of the chip architecture fea
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Impressive Performance Per Watt, Tessellation Improvements, Runs Quiet, Lower Cost Than 5800 Series
No Performance Difference For 5800 Series Owners
If you came to this review hoping that the 6870 was going to bring market dominating performance back to AMD, then I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed.AMD made it clear to us that the 6800 series are a refresh of the 5800 series, and while they ...
DirectX 11 compatibility, Good gaming performance, Silent in 2D load, Reduced energy consumption, Eyefinity, HDMI 1.4, bitstream audio HD
Noisy in 3D, 3D stereo gaming: difficult to set up, Inappropriate naming
A very good mid-end card, at easy with all video games. Note however that it has a misleading name: it is not a substitute for the brand's old high-end....
