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True to form, the HIS cards are supplied in a long shaped box. The excalibur style sword takes centerstage on the front of the box, along with the basic specifications.
The bundle includes literature, a Crossfire connector, vga adapter and some power converter cables.
The HIS HD6870, as with all launch HD6870's is based around the AMD reference design.
The HIS HD6870 supports 2x mini DP (1.2), HDMI 1.4a, and 2x DL-DVI and SL-DVI connectors. It requires two 6 pin power connectors to operate. This card will expel hot air out the back of the chassis.
The reference HD6870 cooler is quite substantial, with a copper block running out to several small heatpipes. The fan is positioned on the far side so it forces air across the heatsink and out the rear of the case.
Two HIS HD6870's in our system, running in CrossfireX.
A GPUZ overview of the hardware. The HIS HD6870 is running at the reference clocks of 900mhz core and 1050mhz (4200mhz effective) via GDDR5 memory.
Boring reference design but crossfire performance is fantastic.
Their pricing is fantastic, there are price wars aplenty right now, they seem to be dropping every day !
HD6870 is still disappointing I think compared to 6850, but we will only be able to judge it when third party versions hit the market.
These are down to 179 quid in the UK today !
The pricing is different on every store I visit,. its a bit of a nightmare getting set figures for either 70 or 50.
wicked. two 6850s in CFX for me.
Excellent pricing but 460 is still good
I like the fact they have quietened the card down compared to reference design, however does anyone like the reference cooling? seems madness to buy now when we all know that better coolers will be announced for the same price in a month.
The 6870s are impressive but the 6850’s are bullshit because amd sumbitted 6850 with 1120 cores(6870) instead of 960 or whatever which proves that the results for the 6850 were just liek downclocked 6870s
as I said in the other discussion. not all 6850s had the higher count.
I realised sorry 🙂