PowerColor Pumps Double Barreled Radeon "HD6870X2" Graphics Card
PowerColor Pumps Double Barreled Radeon "HD6870X2" Graphics Card
Posted 06/22/2011 at 9:06am
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PowerColor today said it "aims to blow gamers' minds" with its very first dual-GPU solution with AMD's Bart XT graphics engine, the PowerColor HD6870X2. As the name implies, this dual-GPU graphics card sports two 6870 graphics chips under its dual-fan cooling apparatus. That equates to 2,240 stream processing units and 4.03 teraFLOPS of computing power.
The GPU cores cruise along at 900MHz and 2GB of GDDR5 memory at 1050MHz (4.2Gbps). To keep instability from rearing its ugly head, PowerColor's cooling solution consists of 'Heat Pipe Direct Touch (HDT)' technology with six flattened heat pipes directly over the GPU. This, PowerColor claims, dissipates heat 50 times better than a regular copper base.
No official word on price, though according to news and rumor site Fudzilla, PowerColor plans to sell the card for around $450.
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Alexexex
June 24, 2011 at 1:37pm
Yesh?
No?
Perhaps?
Lol I love it when these companies senselessly promote their products with "direct copper", which apparently seems like the hottest cooling technique nowadays.
Anyways, I'm eager to see some reviews on this bad boy.
Also... I JUST bought a 6870 online. :/
Oh and 2gddr of video ram ftw?
RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS
June 22, 2011 at 3:06pm
Do some games or apps still have trouble with crossfire or SLI?
In terms of the way programs interface with the card, does it funtion as a single card or two cards in Crossfire?
kixofmyg0t
June 22, 2011 at 3:58pm
It funtions as a single card....with almost twice the power. The better deal of this is running 2 (or more) of these cards in crossfire.
Same thing with the 5970, i've seen 4 of them running in crossfire and man those things mine Bitcoi...err I mean play Crysis like nobodies business
MattyMattMatt
June 22, 2011 at 2:22pm
That's pretty cool, but at 450 it's price too high. I can get two 6870s for that and have some change left over. I guess if you need a single slot solution, this will work out quite well.
Hoping to see some benches stacking it up against traditional crossfire solutions.
Dysthymia
June 22, 2011 at 10:47am
50 times better?
How about some actual testing numbers to back that up PowerColor?
DDRDiesel
June 22, 2011 at 10:53am
That depends. What's left of Japan? Might only be able to power up 2 or 3 of these with what's left
Marthian
June 22, 2011 at 1:09pm
say that to my gtx 560 ti. doesn't take up a lot of power and its fast.
MattyMattMatt
June 22, 2011 at 2:17pm
Then you need to start overclocking. That thing can hit 300W once you get close to that ghz mark.
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