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XFX HD6870 Black Edition Crossfire Review

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We are testing in full Direct X 11 mode.

Another tough test for the hardware although the Black Editions manage to deliver comparable performance levels compared to the HD6990.

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11 comments

  1. under £140 for an overclocked HD6870? Im not often impressed, but ill mark this day down as one of them.

  2. Shame its a reference cooler, thats disappointing for a black edition. I wonder why they do this? I suppose it would add to the price, right?

  3. Excellent, cant go wrong with those. AMD seem to be forcing down prices in the 100-170 area

  4. Yeah thats a mega price. I was going to buy dirt 3 for £30 on steam at the weekend, but I need a new card. ill wait another few weeks and pick one of these up

  5. real shame about the reference cooler, its pretty average at best. although for £60, two of these could get a good upgrade to the artic cooling solution

  6. Its basically an overclocked reference card. bit lazy from XFX.

    Factoring in the price however I can forgive them. seems they hand pick them from batches as the OC headroom seems decent.

  7. what a great price for the performance. makes the 6970 almost redundant, unless you dont like relying on driver profiles

  8. I dealt with Crossfire years ago and it was dire, never again. GTX570 for me im afraid.

  9. Crossfire is much better now. unless its a sponsored Nvidia game, drivers are quick.

    The ideal thing about these are , buy one ‘now’ get another ‘later.

    I doubt they sell many 6990s or GTX590s’

  10. revisiting this hardware is great. I didnt know the 6870s had dropped this low. they were 180 last time I looked, for a stock clocked card.

  11. The only other card I would consider would be the overclocked sapphire 5850 with new cooler. its much less expensive than this, although not as quick.