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The XFX R7870 Core Edition ships in a similar box to the HD7770 and HD7850, featuring ‘Core' branding and the product name.
The bundle contains a lot of literature, and unlike other XFX products today, a Crossfire connector. Not the best bundles from XFX to be honest, and rather disappointing.
The XFX R7870 Core Edition has a full sized, dual slot cooler. A large single fan is positioned in the middle of the cooler. It is built around a black PCB.
The XFX R7870 Core Edition is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration.
The R7870 Core Edition takes power from two six pin PCI power connectors.
The R7870 Core Edition features two DVI outputs alongside a full sized HDMI connector and two mini DisplayPorts.
The R7870 Core Edition features two racks of aluminium fins on either side of the core with four copper heatpipes running into both sides.
The R7870 is based around the Pitcairn core, manufactured on the 28nm process. The core is running at 1GHZ, and the memory at 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective), connected via a 256 bit memory interface. There are 1280 unified shaders, 32 ROPS and 80 TMU's on this card.
Fantastic reading thanks GTX660ti all the way for me !
I have wanted the HD7950 now for quite a while, but cant afford it. ive decided to wait until the next gen, later this year. good article, shows the good GTX660ti performance well.
Im very happy with my HD7870, will do me for some time, and when it doesn’t ill pick one up cheap to CF them,
Now this will totally affect my decision on buying a vga
GTX670 is great, but GTX660 ti is the bargain right now. I like that Sapphire card though, im sick of fan noise 🙁
Good article, very helpful as im thinking of buying one for my new system soon.
Greg, you might want to look at the Asus Direct CUII version of the GTX660Ti – I got one recently to replace a Gainward GTX260GS and the reduction in fan noise is astonishing.
I agree with Andrew. Even though the Gainward GFX cards are very durable, but if you want high quality Nvidia cards that are also silent you should look at the ASUS cards with the Direct CUII cooling solution. It’s really no comparison.
Kitguru said: “Today’s article won’t be featuring the AMD HD7970, HD7990 or Nvidia GTX680 or GTX 690/Titan. Not because we don’t like them, but because very few people can afford to buy them.”
This seems very disingenuous. There’s hardly any difference between the avg. 670 and 7970 prices. Does put nVidia at the top of the charts with the O/C’d 670 though. :
Well its not meant to be disingenuous. the GTX680 is the flagship to battle against the HD7970. If we included the HD7970 then we would need to include the GTX680, sometimes seen for £350.
The point was to try and get a variety of cards and not focus on the flagship single GPU cards.
Bear in mind the GTX670 didn’t get a top award in this test, due to the pricing. The Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X did due to cost, cooling, noise etc.