MSI Radeon HD 7870 Twin Frozr 3 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCIe R7870-Twin-Frozr-2GD5/OC

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Pros:

Good performance increase (over previous generation), Overclocked out of the box, Some additional OC headroom left, Quiet in idle, Native fullsize HDMI output, Adds support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, Support for multiple independent audio stream

Cons:

Noisy under load, OC out of the box quite small, Price too high to be competitive, CCC Overdrive memory limits too low

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Last revision on February 17, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Good performance increase (over previous generation), Overclocked out of the box, Some additional OC headroom left, Quiet in idle, Native fullsize HDMI output, Adds support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, Support for multiple independent audio stream

Reviewers Didn't Like

Noisy under load, OC out of the box quite small, Price too high to be competitive, CCC Overdrive memory limits too low

Expert reviews and ratings

We were positively surprised by AMD's new Radeon HD 7800 Series in our launch day review. Since then nothing has changed. The MSI HD 7870 TF III uses the same reference design PCB, adds a bigger cooler and increases clock speeds.Going from 1000 /...

By techPowerUp! on April 03, 2012

Today’s game of tag turned out to be a 66.6% success, because two overclocked graphics cards of the three managed to catch up with the higher-end models and even outperform them. For example, MSI R7870 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC at its nominal frequencies...

By X-bit Labs on July 23, 2012

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By Vortez on July 18, 2012

Final Words & Conclusion Typically I am a fan of the TwinFrozr III based products, but for whatever reason this cooler does not seem to work out for the R7870. The overall cooling performance was good enough, but once we started to overclock the...

By Guru of 3D on May 18, 2012

Way back at the beginning of this review I said that the MSI HD 7870 Twin Frozr III could be mistaken for being a sheep in wolfs clothing. While it isn't exactly the raging, crazed, blood thirsty animal we hoped for, it can hardly be described as a...

By Vortez on April 29, 2012

Overall, I think this card is a real winner! Beating out the 6970, consistently matching the GTX 580, and even knocking on the door of the 7950 on occasion. The R7870 comes with over a GHz core clock speed and still has a nice amount of overclocking...

By overclockers.com on April 09, 2012

Cette carte ne nous a pas séduits entièrement : le niveau de performance n'augmente que très peu, la ventilation est trop bruyante dans les jeux et seul le niveau sonore au repos remonte la note....

By Les Numériques on July 27, 2012

A l'issue de ce dossier nous nous retrouvons dans une situation pour le moins regrettable puisque notre premier conseil porte sur une carte en fin de vie, la Radeon HD 7870 originale de Sapphire. Celle-ci est équipée d'un système de...

By Hardware France on December 14, 2012

Amis overclockers, voici la Radeon 7870 de prédilection ! Avec sa R7870 Twin Frozr OC edition, MSI réussit un coup de maître. La carte est avant tout un exemple de qualité grâce à l’utilisation de matériaux de...

By 59Hardware on May 23, 2012