Thread: XFX RADEON HD 6870 Black Version

NVIDIA’s current establish of the GeForce GTX 590 card has not altered the face of computing, as we familiar it but has purchased developed function at the highest end. The vast majority of video card sales are not at the price point, with around being the “Sweet Spot” consorting to together AMD and NVIDIA and several market research firms similar Gartner, Mercury Research and Jon Peddle.AMD currently established 2 latest cards at that cost level the RADEON HD 6870 and the RADEON HD 6850 cards severally. While the HD 6850 is an excellent substitute for the HD 5750, the HD 6870 brings close to the similar function of the HD 5870 which was AMD’s flagship card previous year and is a worthy development over the HD 5770 which it substitutes in the lineup.



XFX has already freed a reference clocked HD 6870 which I reviewed currently. They commonly release overclocked versions adding their XT and XXX versions of the past. One of their flagship overclocked versions is named the Black Version and now I am looking back the HD 6870 Black Edition card from XFX.As this card is overclocked it should furnish a nice development in function over the HD 6870 reference card.The XFX HD 6870 is founded upon AMD’s latest Northern Islands graphics chip architecture codenamed Barts which substitutes the Redwood serials of chips. This is made up on TSMC’s 40nm fabrication function and the Barts XT chip on the XFX card has 1.7 billion transistors.

This is lower than the 2.15 billion found on the HD 5870 but more than the HD 5770 chip hadThe HD 6870 chips has 1120 Stream Processors which is beneath than the 1600 on the 5870 but added than the 800 begin on the HD 5770. The HD 6870 is advised to be the backup for the HD 5770 chip, acceptation we will acceptable see an alike bigger dent in the abreast approaching replacing the HD 5870 in the calendar of video cards alleged Cayman which AMD has accepted at their Financial Analyst Day. Each SP can do four Shader operations in a distinct alarm additional a Multiply ADD apprenticeship acceptation the agenda has bristles instructions per alarm per SP.