PowerColor HD6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition CrossfireX Review

The Powercolor HD6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition arrives in a simple, yet effective red box with a good high resolution image on the front. Specifications are listed on the side and rear of the box.

The bundle includes literature on the product, an installation guide and software CD, with Crossfire cable. As this is a special Eyefinity 6 Edition, Powercolor have included a total of 6 converter cables. These convert the signal from any of the mini Displayport connectors to (4) DisplayPort (full size) and (2) single link DVI.

The card is built around a traditional red coloured ‘Ati' PCB. This is a custom PCB design which obviously differs from the majority of cards on the market as it has six DisplayPorts. The custom cooler has a larger central positioned fan which cools the heatsink and heatpipes underneath.

Is it an attractively designed card with the letter ‘6' demanding attention at the side of the cooler.

A clean row of six Mini DisplayPorts are all that is offered, but with the adapter cables supplied those without an expensive Displayport screen will be fine. It can output to all ports simultaneously, if you are lucky enough to have six screens, and a desk big enough to handle them all.

The HD6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is CrossfireX capable in two way configurations. It requires two 6 pin PCIe power connectors to operate properly.

The card is equipped with 2GB of Hynix H5GQ2H24MFR memory. The cooler is a three way heatpipe design which transfers heat into two rows of aluminum fins on either side of the middle section.

A GPUz overview of the hardware. A brief recap – the 40nm Barts core with 1120 unifed shaders, running at 900mhz, with GDDR5 memory operating at 1050mhz (4200mhz effective), tied into a 256 bit memory interface.

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