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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 |
