All the boards in our roundup today feature the reference PCB design of the Radeon 'Tahiti XT' HD 7970, with differences only in the pre-programmed default clock speeds, cooling solution, bundled software/accessories, warranties and most crucially, price. We help our readers to make an informed choice...
The Radeon HD 6800 Series is the first of AMD's second-generation DirectX 11 graphics cards to be released. We have with us the Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 from ASUS and XFX. How do they fare against the HD 5850, HD 5870 and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460?
Hardware.info have published pictures of XFX's version of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 6870. The reference design holds no surprises, and is identical to the previously leaked picture. The card looks most similar to the Radeon HD 5850 - dual slot cooler with a similar length of around 9.5". The smooth "Batmobile" contours, however, have been replaced with boxy ridges. Unlike the Radeon HD 5800 cards, the HD 6800 features a single CF connector, enabling only 2-way Crossfire. Two 6-pin PCI-e connectors are provided, though TDP is expected to be around the 150W mark.
XFX has released two new single slot graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon HD 5770 GPU.
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