Testseek.com have collected 22 expert reviews of the PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 PCS+ 1GB GDDR5 PCIe AX6870-1GBD5-PP2DH and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 PCS+ 1GB GDDR5 PCIe AX6870-1GBD5-PP2DH.
January 2011
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The editors liked
Great performance
Factory overclocked more headroom for even higher clocks
Eyefinity support
7.1 Audio
Quieter than stock cooler
Call of Duty
Modern Warfare 2 included
Mini-DP to regular DP-adapter included
Quiet cooling system
Performance on most games is excellent
5850 performance levels at lower cost
Lower power than HD 5xxx
Especially at idle
The VRM heat problem is fixed for good
Good price/performance ratio
Manufacturing quality is improved
Flexible output connections
Memory ICs are cooled by downflow fan
Afterburner support for I2C voltage control
Quiet fan
Improvement in performance per Watt
Overclocked out of the box
Low power consumption
Software voltage control
Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output
Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare Coupon included
GDDR5 memory
HDMI 1.4 & DisplayPort 1
The editors didn't like
A bit pricey
Cooling fan profile is too slow
20% 38% normal range
Reference design is actually cooler under load
Tessellation performance still lags behind Fermi
Hot air from GPU stays inside cases with limited exhaust
The graphics industry completely missed the 32nm technology node
PowerColor HD6850 1GB GDDR5 is a very nice solution in terms of both price/performance ratio (it's in the top ten) and cooler efficiency. PowerColor PCS+ HD6870 1GB GDDR5 is not as nice but still very decent, and the cooler is quite efficient, too. We...
We have not learned anything particularly new from the fight between the MSI R6870 Hawk and the PowerColor HD6870 PCS+ as we saw the same results in our review of the ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU. We can again say that AMD’s old graphics architecture with VL...
Abstract: New products may occasionally turn out to be no better than older ones as is the case with the VLIW4 and VLIW5 graphics architectures developed by AMD. The Radeon HD 6870 graphics card with its outdated architecture is actually quite competitive to the...
Abstract: As enthusiasts, one of the things we can always count on is the never-ending progression of computer hardware. Year after year, video cards get faster, processors offer more cores and / or performance, and motherboards provide additional features. That...
Abstract: PowerColor HD 6870 PCS+ is a special version of Radeon HD 6870 card that comes factory overclocked and strapped with special cooling.Just a reminder – at the end of October 2010, AMD launched Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 cards for the high end graphics...
Quiet cooling system, Performance on most games is excellent, 5850 performance levels at lower cost, Lower power than HD 5xxx, especially at idle, The VRM heat problem is fixed for good, Good price/performance ratio, Manufacturing quality is improved, Flexible output connections, Memory ICs are cooled by downflow fan, Afterburner support for I2C voltage control,
Cooling fan profile is too slow, 20% 38% normal range, Reference design is actually cooler under load, Tessellation performance still lags behind Fermi, Hot air from GPU stays inside cases with limited exhaust, The graphics industry completely missed the 32nm technology node
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 performance, Factory overclocked more headroom for even higher clocks, Eyefinity support, 7.1 Audio, Quieter than stock cooler, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 included, Mini-DP to regular DP-adapter included
A bit pricey
We like the PowerColor PCS+ HD6870 1GB GDDR5. The GPU itself is nice and is full of cool features that we like (DX11, Eyefinity, support for multiple connections, HD-sound support). The cards using the HD6870 GPU are priced around $230-250, which is a...
Any 'default' PowerColor R6870 in it's baseline performance is 100% similar to the reference products from our launch review, and that's where the PCS+ models are different. Face it that batmobile looking cooler does a splendid job being totally silent ye...
There are a several points to consider as we look at the 6800 cards, but there are a few major ones to note. The first is that the 6870 technically isn't a successor to the 5870, even though we saw the performance is almost identical. The reason is tha...
Quiet fan, Improvement in performance per Watt, Overclocked out of the box, Low power consumption, Software voltage control, Native full-size HDMI & DisplayPort output, Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare Coupon included, GDDR5 memory, HDMI 1.4 & DisplayPort 1
High Blu-ray power consumption, Lack of 3-way and 4-way CrossFire support, DirectX 11 relevance very limited at this time, No support for CUDA / PhysX
PowerColor's Radeon HD 6870 PCS+ is the best HD 6870 card you can buy at this time. It comes with some of the highest clock speed available of all HD 6870 offerings. Even though the GPU clock is high this results in only about 3% performance improvemen...
