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The Powercolor HD6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition arrives in a simple, yet effective red box with a good high resolution image on the front. Specifications are listed on the side and rear of the box.
The bundle includes literature on the product, an installation guide and software CD, with Crossfire cable. As this is a special Eyefinity 6 Edition, Powercolor have included a total of 6 converter cables. These convert the signal from any of the mini Displayport connectors to (4) DisplayPort (full size) and (2) single link DVI.
The card is built around a traditional red coloured ‘Ati' PCB. This is a custom PCB design which obviously differs from the majority of cards on the market as it has six DisplayPorts. The custom cooler has a larger central positioned fan which cools the heatsink and heatpipes underneath.
Is it an attractively designed card with the letter ‘6' demanding attention at the side of the cooler.
A clean row of six Mini DisplayPorts are all that is offered, but with the adapter cables supplied those without an expensive Displayport screen will be fine. It can output to all ports simultaneously, if you are lucky enough to have six screens, and a desk big enough to handle them all.
The HD6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is CrossfireX capable in two way configurations. It requires two 6 pin PCIe power connectors to operate properly.
The card is equipped with 2GB of Hynix H5GQ2H24MFR memory. The cooler is a three way heatpipe design which transfers heat into two rows of aluminum fins on either side of the middle section.
A GPUz overview of the hardware. A brief recap – the 40nm Barts core with 1120 unifed shaders, running at 900mhz, with GDDR5 memory operating at 1050mhz (4200mhz effective), tied into a 256 bit memory interface.
Damn this is a seriously sexy HD6870, really loved that article, wish I could afford the panels. 🙁
Thats a hell of a card, the HD6870 doesnt get much attention, but its a good pricepoint normally. quite affordable.
I need to get another 6850 for my system, hopefully in August 🙂
Good boards, but powercolor dont have a good warranty system in the UK, always worth pointing out I think.
6 mini displayports, very nice. Wish they would supply six mini displayport screens in the box with it :p
How many people have 3 or 4 screens though? its rather hardcore, even for this audience, I would say.
they should make a 6970 version of this card too, thats wicked
The 6870 is a good card, but I opted for the 560 as I will never use more than one screen at home and I got a good deal on one at the time.
regardless these are good boards, and if I had a bigger desk or more money I would have gotten two 6850s or 6870s
The 6 series is really good for CFx. the scaling always impresses me. shame it needs driver profiles though. wish AMD could crack an ‘all in one dual card profile’. my biggest problem with it, that sometimes AMD take a month to add a profile and id have the game beaten by then.
Im afraid if I was opting for 4 screens id get two 6970’s.