AMD Radeon HD 6870

by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2011 · 0 comments

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Roundup image

Choosing a video card gets very difficult, for some users, when there are a ton of reviews for a card but they’re spread all over the place so those somewhat rare roundup reviews are especially handy for someone trying to make a decision on what to buy. High end graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon HD […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 2, 2010 · 0 comments

AMD Radeon HD 6870 video card picture

A reference design is a reference design meaning all things are pretty much equal regardless of what manufacturer you’re looking at so you’re going to be choosing your fancy new AMD Radeon HD 6870 based on price, warranty, software bundle, or by non-reference cooler which seemingly showed up out of nowhere to catch your eye. […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2010 · 0 comments

AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card CrossFireX image

Multi GPU performance relies quite a bit on how well the graphics chips handle communicating with each other and the quality of the drivers that are available for the setups. The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 offer an intriguing combination of pricing, power consumption, temperature, and driver maturity that somehow manages to push their […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 22, 2010 · 0 comments

AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card image

Those expecting miracles from the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 graphics cards should instead hold on to their hopes for the 6900 series. Everyone else has a lot to look forward to with AMD’s latest chip refresh which takes the tried and true design of last year’s ground breaking 5800 series and does some […]

Read more AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 seem familiar