3-8-2011 review by tweaktown

This video card has a strong performance and excellent cooling, besides that you'll find a mini-DP to DP convertor and HDMI cable included in the bundle. Allthough this graphics card uses reference clocks you can always overclock it yourself. The high quality heatsink gives the card a little more headroom.

Compared To:

MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin FROZR II, MSI Radeon HD 6950 2GB Twin MSI Radeon HD 6950 2GB Twin Frozr II, Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB.

Test Setup:

• CPU cooler : Noctua-NH-U12P dual fan
• CPU: Intel Core i7-980X hexacore
• Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme-3
• Memory: 6GB Kingston HyperX 2000MHz DDR3 PC16000
• OS: W7 Ultimate x64
• PSU: Corsair AX1200
• SSD: Kingston SSDNow V+128GB

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, 3D Mark Vantage, Aliens vs. Predator, Batman Arkham Aslyum, BattleForge, Company Of Heroes, Dark void, Darkest of Days, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor, Fan Noise, Far Cry 2, H.A.W.X 2, High Quality AA and AF, Lost Planet 2, Mafia II, Overall Performance, Power Consumption, Resident Evil V, Sound Test, Street Fighter IV, Temperature Test, Unigine Heaven Benchmark.

2-28-2011 LINUX review by phoronix

The Vapor-X GPU Heatsink takes care that the card runs low noise and high efficiency. Hardware additions like a 10-phase power control and patented Black Diamond chokes will guarantee a good OC result. People who have bought this can download TriXX, an OC tool by the manufacturer.

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 performance under Linux stands relative to several popular graphics cards from previous generations. Aside from Unigine Heaven where Catalyst driver bugs are hampering the performance, the Radeon HD 6870 performance was quite impressive overall.

The Radeon HD 6870 is a fast graphics card and its price/performance is not bad at all. If you're looking for a high performance graphics card that can also be used by open-source Linux drivers, this card should be worth considering, besides that it only costs a few dollars more than other reference cards.

Compared To:

GeForce GTX 460, Radeon HD 4890, Radeon HD 5750, Radeon HD 5770, Radeon HD 6870.