Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition Review

The busty army lass features on this box, we have seen her a lot in recent months.

The bundle includes a Crossfire cable, software disc, video and power cables and literature on the product.

The Sapphire cooler is predominately black, with thick copper heatpipes visible from various angles. The card is built on a blue PCB.

The Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition is Crossfire capable but only in a 2 way configuration. Those people who want to adopt a 3 or 4 way Crossfire system need to budget for a 79xx series card.

The XFX HD7870 Overclock Edition features two 6 pin power connectors, which follows the reference guidelines.

The card is a dual slot design with two full sized DVI ports and a single HDMI port with two mini DisplayPort connectors. It is Eyefinity capable. This card can simultaneously output multiple, independent audio streams from the HDMI and mini Displayport connectors at the rear of the card.

The cooler features four thick copper heatpipes which lead into two separate racks of aluminum fins on either side of the core.

A basic overview of the hardware which we discussed earlier in the review. The Pitcairn GPU is manufactured on 28nm technology and this specific board features 32 ROPS and 2GB of GDDR5 memory which is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. The core clock is increased from 1,000mhz to 1,050mhz and the memory from 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective) to 1,250mhz (5.0Gbps effective). The card has 1,280 shaders.

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