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XFX HD6870 Black Edition Crossfire Review

Rating: 9.0.

If you are in the market for a system overhaul, then today's review will be particularly interesting. Due to some recent price drops it is possible now to pick up a HD6870 for less than £150.

If you have £300 to spare, how about buying two of the latest XFX HD6870 Black Edition cards for a Crossfire system? For only £280 is this one of the ultimate value for money gaming configurations?

The XFX HD6870 Black Edition is an overclocked card which operates at 940mhz / 4600mhz via the core /GDDR5 memory.

XFX HD6870 BE AMD HD6870 AMD HD5870
Die Size (mm2) 255 255 334
Transistor Count 1.7 billion 1.7 billion 2.15 billion
Memory Bandwidth 4.2Gbps 4.2GBps 4.8GBps
Stream Processors 1120 1120 1600
Texture Units 56 56 80
ROPs 32 32 32
Core Clock 940 mhz 900 mhz 850 mhz
Memory Clock 1,150mhz 1,050mhz 1,200mhz
Memory 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5

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11 comments

  1. under £140 for an overclocked HD6870? Im not often impressed, but ill mark this day down as one of them.

  2. Shame its a reference cooler, thats disappointing for a black edition. I wonder why they do this? I suppose it would add to the price, right?

  3. Excellent, cant go wrong with those. AMD seem to be forcing down prices in the 100-170 area

  4. Yeah thats a mega price. I was going to buy dirt 3 for £30 on steam at the weekend, but I need a new card. ill wait another few weeks and pick one of these up

  5. real shame about the reference cooler, its pretty average at best. although for £60, two of these could get a good upgrade to the artic cooling solution

  6. Its basically an overclocked reference card. bit lazy from XFX.

    Factoring in the price however I can forgive them. seems they hand pick them from batches as the OC headroom seems decent.

  7. what a great price for the performance. makes the 6970 almost redundant, unless you dont like relying on driver profiles

  8. I dealt with Crossfire years ago and it was dire, never again. GTX570 for me im afraid.

  9. Crossfire is much better now. unless its a sponsored Nvidia game, drivers are quick.

    The ideal thing about these are , buy one ‘now’ get another ‘later.

    I doubt they sell many 6990s or GTX590s’

  10. revisiting this hardware is great. I didnt know the 6870s had dropped this low. they were 180 last time I looked, for a stock clocked card.

  11. The only other card I would consider would be the overclocked sapphire 5850 with new cooler. its much less expensive than this, although not as quick.