Hardware ATI Radeon HD 6870 Review

Someone fails at reading comprehension.

 

*Bangs head against wall*

The 6870/6850 are the replacements for the 57xx range of GPU's. The 6950/70 or whatever they will be called are the 58xx replacements.

5870 performance, excellent power consumption and low noise all for £200, seems like a bargin to me.

The new morphological AA looks like a good feature to have as well, equivilant of 2x AA for no real performance penalty.

 

I've read elsewhere (repeatedly even) that the stock cooler on the HD6870 is noiser than its equivalent on the HD5870. Hogwash or not?

 

Laughed out loud at this: "So to summarize: "to anyone who still plays crysis out there... F*CK YOU". Nice one bit-tech "

And apart from the grave error of missing out the Crysis benchmark did I miss it or was there really no overclocking test on these cards?

 

Aye, that was a bit disappointing. These cards are supposed to compete against the 460s, not including OC performance for them is a poor choice. 460 is a very good card at stock, but it is the OC which makes it so desirable. A quick update sometime soon would have been great guys. Especially after seeing in one or two other reviews that the card over clocks very well, but that the OC for some magic reason provides negligible performance increases.

 

A thread filled with cries of a distinctly average game, coded by idiots being absent from benchmarks. Unbelievable.

I can't say I ever ran to look at the Crysis benchmarks within GPU reviews for the simple fact I don't play it - So why would I care how it performed?

I'd love to see it if the rest of the games included in the benchmarks were all from 2007. The same cries within the thread would be immense.

 

REALLY??? thats a pretty asinine remark to make. Your telling me that you dont watch any media at all on your PC? That someone in a home environment is ONLY going to play games if they use these types of cards. Come on Bit-Tech expand your thinking a bit more please, there are people out there that use their PC for more then one activity.


Anyhow on a different note I might have missed it just like the above remark that I missed but is there an explanation on why only a single crossfire connector???

 

This I agree with. Been a long time since I used the living room TV myself.

 

"The End" is near for Nvidia . price/performance ratio is best for Amd ; nvidia consumes lot of power , so at the end of life of gpu the electricity bill would bee higher than price of card itself

 

The end is near, lol...

 

Lol indeed, AMD needs some serious boosting before they kill NVidia...

 

You can't possibly think that just cus Crysis old school it's out dated and not good enough. Dude cmn. It's not just a game, but almost like graphics card stress test software. Take Prime95 for example sure its freaking old as you know what, but everyone still uses even today.

 

good point







=p sorry I had to, since you posted this on the 6850 thread and I quoted with good point so I had to do it again on this one lol

 

There already is graphics card stress test software available, software capable of pushing video gards in ways no current game can, and far more accurately by repeating the exact same test for every card. What you're looking for is Furmark, or perhaps UniEngine Heaven.

Additionally, Bit doesn't do synthetic benchmarks for video cards so using Crysis strictly as a piece of benchmarking software essentially makes it synthetic and therefore not used.

 

okay you just made a double negative remark lol so you call Heaven a benchmark but it repeats the scenes over and over which would also make it synthetic same goes for any built in game benchmark as it repeats itself as well which would make it synthetic so the only reason why we dont call game with built in benchmarks synthetic is because you can actually play it huh interesting reasoning but by that reasoning nothing can be done to test a card because it would be synthetic and bit-tech doesnt do synthetic apparently.

I suppose the thing to do is to get a game that a benchmark ability on each commonly used engine to test with so you have a broad concept of how other games built on said engine would perform.

 

Huh looks like Diamond Multimedia is offering a 6870 with two dual link DVI ports instead of the one so its clearly not an ATI thing but more of a price point thing for the manufactures.

 

I have a feeling this might be an error on Diamond's part.

 

everything is market as such, by what the reps say, to whats on their site, I have contacted a few reviewers who have the card to verify this so now Im just waiting on their response.

 

We eagerly await the answer...

 

i understand this is a reference card review, not related to manufacturers, but could i raise a small question:

how many manufacturers have included a mini-DP to DisplayPort adaptor?

it's madness they've changed to mini-DP if they didn't include a mini-DP to DP adaptor. it's a very important question for me to be able to get an answer when considering to purchase a 6970.