Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
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With so many GPUs available these days, it can be hard to know what's what. This week we're explaining what to look for in a graphics card and assessing five of the best models on the market.We could have limited this GPU roundup to just the...

By APC Magazine on
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We’ve been raving about the nVidia GTX 460 for the last couple of months, but the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 now takes over in the £151-plus graphics card category. This fantastic card costs less than £200, but is even able to rival the...

By PC Advisor on
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We already knew how well a performer the HD6870 was from our prior review, but we did learn a couple important things this time around. First, the cards take to overclocking very well. You can expect to see in-game results with even the smallest bump...

By LanOC Reviews on
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Sapphire’s holding a winning pair here, no doubt. It has to be said again that we have been comparing these cards against the very best, overclocked GTX460 cards on the market. AMD could have launched its second generation DX11 cards with a...

By Kitguru.net on

Unfortunately due to tightened hardware availability with the latest generations of AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards, this graphics card comparison isn't too particularly exciting for this review, but it does show where the AMD Radeon HD 6870...

By Phoronix on

With the HD68xx series, AMD isn't trying to reinvent the wheel but is just refining the technology started by the HD5xxx series, and the low pricing shows just how seriously the company takes the threat of Nvidia's GTX460. Although...

By IT Reviews on

AMD recently announced the HD 6800 series, and our today’s test subject was Sapphire’s HD 6870. The card is priced at about €204, which is a pretty good bang for a buck. With its HD 6800 series, AMD introduced competition to HD 5800...

By Fudzilla on

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 is an impressive card for under $250 dollars and the Sapphire model is a very well executed use of the new architecture. In nearly all tests this model was able to achieve higher frame rates than the 1GB GTX 460, and in some...

By Neoseeker on

AMD has been on a roll lately with their video card releases. Last year they released their first DirectX 11 video cards in the form of the Evergreen family of video cards. The high-end last year was taken up by the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850...

By Motherboards.org on
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Die 3D-Leistung stimmt: Im 3DMark Vantage erreicht die Karte 16.964 Punkte, im 3DMark 11 sind es 4276 Punkte. Insgesamt ist die Sapphire HD 6870 schnell genug, um Spiele in FullHD flüssig darzustellen. Die Karte ist unter Last kein Leisetreter, die...

International Review By Magnus.de on