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Asus Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Based on 6 reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

2
Average:

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Bad:

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Pros

Low operational temperatures, Quiet Operation, Dual Display Ports, Voltage Tweak.
Good performance, great design, wide array of ports, supports HDMI 1.4a for BluRay 3D, good software bundle
Slight factory overclock, Aluminum cover, Great CrossFire performance.
Good performance, Factory overclocked, 3 year warranty, Low power consumption, SmartDoctor, Fan adjustment in the software, Plenty of output options
Solid performance for a card in this price range, Cooling fan never got loud during testing, Overclocked with minimal effort, Great combo of connections for most basic uses and for an Eyefinity setup, Energy efficient, Competitively priced, Matches up wel

Cons

Low Memory
Fan gets noisy above 50% speed, expensive
Low overclocking capacity
Fan is loud under load
Ran warmer than an HD5870 and an HD5850 during testing, Tiny factory overclock on the GPU seems more like a gimmick, but extra speed is never a bad thing, Not ASUS's fault, but new naming structure is confusing

By CIOL on April 08, 2011

Marking an evolution of sorts, Asus has launched its new Graphic card HD6870 DirectCU with Voltage Tweak Technology and a clock speed of 915MHz, which is much more than Radeon HD6850’s 775 MHz. It boasts of AMD's Eyefinity Multi-Display...

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By ITShootOut on March 23, 2011

The EAH6870 is unquestionably a great video card, and one that is priced extremely well for the level of performance it delivers. There are very few games out there that the 6870 will not run at maximum detail in a full-HD resolution, making it a...

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By InsideHW on December 26, 2010

We've recently presented the first of AMD's latest-gen graphics cards. That was Radeon HD 6850, and although they were officially presented the same day, the stronger model took a while to get to us. As we've already stated, the new...

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By TechTree on December 03, 2010

All this performance comes at a price, and with Asus, that price is a little more than it should be. The EAH6870 is priced at Rs. 17,500 excluding taxes, which straightaway makes it pricey. While it is 10-15% faster in most games as compared to the...

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By Tbreak.com on November 30, 2010

As the floodgates opened up for the AMD HD 6870 graphics card, ASUS also followed the market with the introduction of the EAH6870. Being ASUS, this card was not going to be released with just the reference settings, so while it looks the same as a...

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By HardOCP on November 16, 2010

The ASUS EAH6870 is a great product and a great value. Performance-wise, it is in-line with other Radeon HD 6870s and on-par with the competing GeForce GTX 470. In terms of efficiency, it is a far better choice than the GeForce GTX 470. For roughly...

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By Bjorn3D on November 05, 2010

We already know that the HD 6870 is a good midrange card that offers good performance at resolutions up to 1920x1080. It often is able to keep up with the HD5870, and sometimes out-performs the GTX 460 1GB, though it falls just a bit under the GTX...

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By HEXUS.net on November 02, 2010

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By Bigbruin on October 29, 2010

When I recently became aware of the HD6000 series' imminent release, I was initially expecting a significant change like we saw with the evolution from the HD3000 to the HD4000 to the HD5000 series. While you won't be met with a true gaming...

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By Pureoverclock on October 22, 2010

There's quite a bit of information to process with the launch of the 6800 cards, but there are a few major ones to note. The first is that the 6870 technically isn't a successor to the 5870, even though we saw the performance is almost...

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