Thread: XFX Radeon HD 6870 analyze

As we informed in our creation to AMD’s brand-new Radeon HD 6000-series, which you can read here the Radeon HD 6870 is the instant in a series of fresh GPUs behaved for Direct X 11 games.

Contempt the naming scheme still the 6870 is not AMD’s new top-shelf GPU The 6870 is more corresponding to the elderly 5850 but it’s much more affordable and consumes substantially less power. The actual targets AMD is shooting for here are Nvidia’s mid-priced 768MB and 1GB Ge Force 460 GPUs.

XFX’s take on the Radeon HD 6870 carves much nearer to AMD’s mention design than their Radeon HD 6850 card did with a climbing bracket boasting two mini-DisplayPort 1.2 connectors one HDMI 1.4a one dual-link DVI and one single-link DVI. XFX’s core and memory clock speeds are also the similar as AMD’s mention design 900- and 1,050MHz.

The specification chart assists states why the Radeon HD 6870 fails to overcome the older high-end part The new GPU has 480 more some stream processors 24 more some texture units, and its 1GB of GDDR5 memory runs at a slower clock speed . The 6870’s core clock speed on the other hand runs 50MHz faster than the older 5870.

Contempt operating at reference-design clock speeds, XFX’s take on the Radeon HD 6870 rescued amazing benchmark equated to the over clocked 768MB and 1GB GeForce GTX 460 cards we tried as well as an over clocked Radeon HD 5870. The Radeon HD 6870 touts particular price/performance ratios with an even more telling performance-per-watt ratio.