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Powercolor have been one of the more active AMD partners in recent months, releasing many modified cards with custom cooling solutions for all sectors of the market. Today we are looking at their latest HD6870 PCS++ which is supplied with a proprietary cooler and substantial ‘out of the box' overclocks.
AMD's HD6870 has proved a good seller in recent months, targeting the lower end of the gaming market, but offering good performance at modest resolutions. Powercolor are aiming to push this specific board design as far as possible by increasing the core clock by a whopping 75mhz and the memory clock by 100 mhz (400mhz effective).
| Powercolor HD6870 PCS++ | AMD HD6870 | AMD HD5870 | |
| Die Size (mm2) | 255 | 255 | 334 |
| Transistor Count | 1.7 billion | 1.7 billion | 2.15 billion |
| Memory Bandwidth | 4.6Gbps | 4.2GBps | 4.8GBps |
| Stream Processors | 1120 | 1120 | 1600 |
| Texture Units | 56 | 56 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Core Clock | 975 mhz | 900 mhz | 850 mhz |
| Memory Clock | 1,150mhz | 1,050mhz | 1,200mhz |
| Memory | 1GB GDDR5 | 1GB GDDR5 | 1GB GDDR5 |
