PowerColor HD6870X2 Review

[BlameTruth]

Nice card and nice review

 

[murphy7801]

To be honest I am unsure. The Crossfire performance in a title such as Warhead or Metro was good enough to believe that it's working okay. 3DM11 is akin to Unigine in that it's very shader heavy, but that did well too.

So I think it's probably a driver issue, but it's equally possible that only in very extreme loadings (and Unigine is fearsome) does the limitations of the dual-GPU single-card solution become apparent.

Agreed on things like Unigine alot cards like this flaws start appear also sli low level cards tend to fail at heavy shader content when had 2 gtx 460 they could handle heavy shader related gaming now went upgraded too 2x asus directcuII gtx 580 my life is so easy now.

 

[Asta]

Hi there,

I had the 4870x2 and it was a room heater, big and ugly. Until i water cooled it. Now I have the nVidia GTX470 and I am happy with it. I liked the review, especially graphs and I like the card to be honest. I don't like the temps and would like to se better designed cooling like Asus does it. End. Cya.

 

[alienware]

I had issues with my 5770 xfire in Unigene. I mean, my 470 peed on them. The max FPS was always miles high, but due to the terrible micro stuttering dropping me to 2fps my scores were always screwy at the end.

It was going to my 470 that made me realise you are always better off with a single powerful gpu. I would never rely on the incoming 295 but I have heard that the 590 has no micro stutter issues at all so I am quite hopeful about it. In DX10.1 it hit both Tropics and Heaven out of the park, breezing past a 480 so I would assume it was due to the drivers..

Radeon issues are always the drivers man. I really hoped with the massive success of the 5 series Rads they would have improved, but it was like stepping back to 2005