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Today we are taking a look at the new VTX3D HD7870 EyeFinity 6 Graphics card which has been designed to support a raft of high resolution monitors for both work and gaming environments. The card ships with a proprietary cooler and six mini DisplayPort connectors, although VTX3D have decided to ship at reference clock speeds.
We have reviewed a handful of VTX3D graphics cards within the last year, and while they have scored well we feel they are generally a little behind market leaders Sapphire, especially in regards to their cooling solutions.
VTX3D are a part of the TUL Corporation who also sell the Powercolor branded range of hardware.
| Product | VTX3D HD7870 EyeFinity 6 | AMD HD7950 | AMD HD7870 | AMD HD7850 |
| Core Clock speed | 1000mhz | 800mhz | 1000mhz | 860mhz |
| Transistors | 2.8B | 4.31B | 2.8B | 2.8B |
| Stream Processors | 1,280 | 1,792 | 1,280 | 1,024 |
| Compute Performance | 2.56 TFLOPS | 2.87 TFLOPS | 2.56 TFLOPS | 1.76 TFLOPS |
| Texture Units | 80 | 112 | 80 | 64 |
| Texture Fillrate | 80 GT/s | 89.6 GT/s | 80 GT/s | 55.0 GT/s |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Pixel Fillrate | 32.0 GP/s | 25.6 GP/s | 32.0 GP/s | 27.52 GP/s |
| Z/Stencil | 128 | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Memory Type | 2GB GDDR5 | 3GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 1,200mhz | 1,250mhz | 1,200mhz | 1,200mhz |
| Memory Data Rate | 4.8Gbps | 5.0 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 240 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s |
Sadly VTX3D haven't decided to offer a core or memory clock increase. The core clock is set to 1,000mhz and the GDDR5 memory is configured to 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective), both AMD reference specifications.
Its a great idea for multiple monitors, but it seems like a half way approach.
people who want this for business, wont need a 7870, so its overkill as they wont game.
gamers who want 6 screen support would be better with a 7970 version as it has more power. then they could add another 7970 later for crossfire and added power.
Make sense or not? I think so anyway.
seems more suited to business users IMO. small design for business cases, single fan for people who dont really care about a little extra noise. not enough power for gaming on 4 screens or more etc.
I dont understand the selection. 7970 would make much more sense for this kind of card.
I think like Jeff, we need it for buisness and I don`t care much about the 3D support so 7750 with 6 outputs is good for me. I need PCIe 3.0 support, because I need fast 2D transfers over the bus.
Interesting card, currently the best you can have for Eyefinity in 7xxx series, unfortunately, as the two 7970 series who can run 6 screens have mixed outputs resulting in screen tearing, same for Sapphire 7950 FleX which is for a start limited to 1080p (bcos of HDMI) and on top of that has mixed outputs resulting screen tearing.
What someone should do would be a 7950 or 7970 with 6x DP. For business use one gets off the hook cheaper by going with either 6770 eyefinity 5 edition (like, from example, XFX does and which is on top of being small also a single slot card) or with 6870 Eyefinity 6 which is usually close to 100 euro cheaper and also has 2 Gb of vRAM.
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