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VTX3D HD6870 X2 Review

Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.

After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.

We are testing in DX11 mode with all settings on the highest. Direct X 11 features are on high.

Another intensive Direct X 11 title, especially with 4 AA enabled. The VTX3D HD6870 X2 has no problems powering through the engine however at these settings, achieving an average of 71 fps. This is a couple of frames per second higher than the reference clocked GTX580.

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14 comments

  1. VTX3D, never heard of them ! nicely designed card, but yeah bit hot for my tastes my own 6850 hits 80c in furmark..

  2. 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?

  3. This is not for me, but yeah its cool to see X2’s again.

    Id rather get the GTX580 as it runs much cooler.

  4. No stability problems when gaming no.

  5. Good idea, but there are so many cards now for every price range, its sure to confuse people

  6. I think this will be closer to 400 sterling due to vat and current crap economy here

  7. Interesting concept idea from Powercolor. certainly got them some headlines lately

  8. Compared to the GTX580, this seems a much better deal IMO. faster, cheaper. etc.

  9. 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.

  10. 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…..

  11. biggest heatpipes ever on a video card? we should hold a vote to find out

  12. Maybe this is why the 580 has dropped to £339?

  13. isnt it 6 core? (12 threads) in cpu =)

  14. Hi Pelle, it is indeed. 6 physical, 6 logical. 12 threads.