ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review

The Test System

All tests were performed on a freshly formatted system using the latest Catalyst 11.4 drivers from AMD. All system drivers and the BIOS were all up

to date. The memory was run in dual channel with 8-8-8-24 1T timings and nothing was overclocked; everything was running at stock speeds.

The Test System

• Processor: AMD Phenom 2 965 3.4 GHz
• Motherboard: MSI 790FX GD-70
• Memory: 4 GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 1600 Dual Channel
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• Hard Drive: Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128 GB SSD
• Cooling: Corsair H50
• Power Supply: Corsair HX750W
• Chassis: White NZXT Phantom
• Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

• Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 820 MHz GPU Core Clock/1100 MHz Memory Clock
• ASUS Radeon HD 6870 915 MHz GPU Core Clock/1050 MHz Memory Clock