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Not many people were expecting the HD6870 X2 when it was initially announced. Powercolor have been one of the key players behind the launch and we highlighted some pictures from Computex a while ago. Today we are looking at the VTX3D version of the card. For those of you who haven't yet heard, Vertex3D are the ‘price aggressive' brand from TUL Corporation, the parent company of Powercolor.
The HD6870X2 has 2240 stream processing units and 4.03 teraflops of computing power, with a core clock of 900mhz and GDDR5 memory set at 1050mhz. The card uses high end Heat Pipe Direct Touch (HDT) Technology, with 6 pieces of flattened heat pipes which directly cover the GPU. They claim 50 times better heat dissipation than a copper base.
| HD6870 X2 | |
| Core Speed | 900mhz |
| Memory Speed | 1050 mhz (4.2Gbps) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256bit x2 |
| Eyefinity support | yes |
| Direct X 11 support | yes |
| CrossfireX | yes |
| Output | DL-DVI-I / SL-DVI-D/ HDMI/2 x mini Display Port |
| Game Bundle | Dirt 3 |
VTX3D, never heard of them ! nicely designed card, but yeah bit hot for my tastes my own 6850 hits 80c in furmark..
I like the fact they are trying to break the reference designs, thats normally left for Sapphire. my concern however is that this cooler isn’t adequate. I read another review of the powercolor card and they found the same thing, I think one of the systems actually SHUT down in some testing. Did you experience any hard locking Zardon?
This is not for me, but yeah its cool to see X2’s again.
Id rather get the GTX580 as it runs much cooler.
No stability problems when gaming no.
Good idea, but there are so many cards now for every price range, its sure to confuse people
I think this will be closer to 400 sterling due to vat and current crap economy here
Interesting concept idea from Powercolor. certainly got them some headlines lately
Compared to the GTX580, this seems a much better deal IMO. faster, cheaper. etc.
Seems like it is a problem to get it cooled adequately. Many enthusiast users want sub 80c temps under load. 80-90c+ isn’t really that good a selling point, even if it is massively difficult considering the power on hand.
I like it, however why not just get two 6870s, which will run cooler? I understand not everyone will have a crossfire capable board, but stil…..
biggest heatpipes ever on a video card? we should hold a vote to find out
Maybe this is why the 580 has dropped to £339?
isnt it 6 core? (12 threads) in cpu =)
Hi Pelle, it is indeed. 6 physical, 6 logical. 12 threads.