Graphics card round up March 2013

The XFX R7870 Core Edition ships in a similar box to the HD7770 and HD7850, featuring ‘Core' branding and the product name.

The bundle contains a lot of literature, and unlike other XFX products today, a Crossfire connector. Not the best bundles from XFX to be honest, and rather disappointing.

The XFX R7870 Core Edition has a full sized, dual slot cooler. A large single fan is positioned in the middle of the cooler. It is built around a black PCB.

The XFX R7870 Core Edition is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration.

The R7870 Core Edition takes power from two six pin PCI power connectors.

The R7870 Core Edition features two DVI outputs alongside a full sized HDMI connector and two mini DisplayPorts.

The R7870 Core Edition features two racks of aluminium fins on either side of the core with four copper heatpipes running into both sides.

The R7870 is based around the Pitcairn core, manufactured on the 28nm process. The core is running at 1GHZ, and the memory at 1,200mhz (4.8Gbps effective), connected via a 256 bit memory interface. There are 1280 unified shaders, 32 ROPS and 80 TMU's on this card.

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