VisionTek Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIe 900338

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Pros:

Solid performance, Limited lifetime warranty, Low power consumption, Improved tessellation performance, DisplayPort 1.2 (improved multi-monitor support)
Excellent mainstream DX11 graphics performance, Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality, Reduced heat output enables nearly silent cooling fan, Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case, UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback.

Cons:

Not the best overclocker
Limited initial AMD HD3D product support, Fails to fix anisotropic texture filtering, Barts GPU yields minimal overclock

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Last revision on April 7, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Solid performance, Limited lifetime warranty, Low power consumption, Improved tessellation performance, DisplayPort 1.2 (improved multi-monitor support)
Excellent mainstream DX11 graphics performance, Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality, Reduced heat output enables nearly silent cooling fan, Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case, UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback

Reviewers Didn't Like

Not the best overclocker
Limited initial AMD HD3D product support, Fails to fix anisotropic texture filtering, Barts GPU yields minimal overclock

Expert reviews and ratings

Aside from a lifetime warranty and lack of a stickers, VisionTek's HD6870 has little that sets it apart from the many other HD6870's on the market. The performance is where it should be, temperatures are normal, and overclocking headroom is...

By Bjorn3D on November 08, 2010

IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to...

By Benchmark Reviews on October 30, 2010

The VisionTek HD 6870 is yet another fine release based on the new Northern Islands GPU architecture. In all the tests, regardless of how the HD 6870 stacked up against the GTX series graphics cards, it performed extremely well and achieves great...

By Neoseeker on November 04, 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...

By Pureoverclock on October 28, 2010