Thursday, October 14th 2010
XFX Radeon HD 6870 Smiles for the Camera
XFX is ready with the first AIB-branded Radeon HD 6000 series graphics card to be caught on camera. Its Radeon HD 6870 graphics card bears a racy-looking AMD reference-design blower-type cooling solution, with its own company sticker. The company has opted for the AMD-branded Radeon logo. It draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, has no backplate on the PCB's reverse side, and sports a custom-design rear-panel on which the XFX logo is etched on the exhaust. Display connectors include two DVI, an HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort. Radeon HD 6870 is intended to be a successor to the Radeon HD 5700 series, a performance segment product targeting a price sweet-spot. Radeon HD 5800 series successors are Radeon HD 6900 series.
Sources:
Hardware.info, Sweclockers
89 Comments on XFX Radeon HD 6870 Smiles for the Camera
Also, man when did XFX become so fucking shit?
look at how open that vent area is, nice! but no, xfx ruin it by putting their logo their, that won't affect airflow in the slightest will it xfx D:
So something that cost extra and reduces thermal performance?
Genius.
The monitors with DP tend to be more expensive than the ones with HDMI/DVI, and the DRM causes more hassles than it is worth.
I'd rather pay a few bucks more for a video card with HDMI than $50+ more for a monitor with DP, or $30 for the DP to DVI adaptor. Or better yet, I'd just like to see 3 DVI ports, let me use adapters if I want something else since DVI can easily be converted to VGA or HDMI without the need for more costly active adapters. For some odd reason you HAVE to use the DP to use eyefinity...
But that wasn't my point, if they are going to waste PCB space, I'd rather see them use it for another HDMI port than two mini-DPs.
seriously, how do you expect new standards to come forward if you don't let them.
Seriously, why would you expect us to let new standards come forward if they aren't any better(arguably worse actually) than what we already have?
6 displays driven from two ports.
Not bad.
If they beefed up their gpus and had 8 ports that's 24 displays from one card potentially.
You have to look ahead not at the now : ]
Sorry this was supposed to be an edit .
Don't really think it's meant as an upgrade, it's just there to complement HDMI. I agree in regards to the differences in the other standards being much more significant then DP, and as you said HDMI being much more widely available on monitors, it seems much more useful.
If I want to drive 24 monitors, I'm probably not going to be using a gaming graphics card to do it. That is a place for a workstation card. Those 24 monitors are going to cost an arm and a leg compared to the same setup with multiple cards using a different standard. Oddly, for something royalty free, it sure does cost an assload of money to get.
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Yes, they are charging you extra just because they feel like it.
It's business, man, and it will always be that way. I'm not gonna compain about it, but I will give some facts surrounding the problem.
If you can't afford an extra $50, you aren't a real customer anyway. People like me, that don't give a shit, and buy every good that comes out...yes...it's US they listen to. Start buying stuff, and you might actually have a voice they listen to, up on that soapbox.
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and btw its not about the PCB but its the core that can't allow cypress to have more than two active TMDs
Give it a few years and I'll bet it be standardised. Bet 12 euros! ( not my own ones, we have pounds here still he he)
Your expecting to much to soon IMO, you wouldn't expect a baby just born to talk or run now would you?
But you expect a fairly new standard to be cheap and out do the competition by a whole bunch?
1.2 makes it beat the competition, that's out soon which means it will start being used more widely and won't cost a lot to use.
It's the tech world man, that process is standard with everything.
I'm not expecting too much too soon. Why is expecting it to actually be better expecting too much? I'm not asking for it to blow the competition away. I'm just asking that it offer the consumer something now. I don't believe the consumer should be paying for something now with the promise that it might be better in the future if we just wait long enough. I likely won't even have the GPU when it finally becomes better, so give me something that I can actually use now.
I'm not saying DP doesn't have a place, put it on workstations cards, but don't put it on gaming cards targetted at an audience that almost no one will have monitors that support it.
And if that baby was put into a marathon with fully developed runners, I certainly would expect it to run right away and I would expect it to run faster too, or it will lose the marathon won't it?
Not many support it now, but that's what I'm saying more will, and then it will be less of a fuss eh lol
And I'd say the 1.2 rev of DP is the WIN compared to other connection types available at the moment.
But that's just me, I think the daisey chain feature is neato :laugh:
All you do is complain about it. Great. That solves what, exactly? You expect them to develop new products without cash?
People have to buy the products before they will make them work right. If you want something to get better, you need to invest in it, not complain about it.
FYI, those that use eyefinity will be using DP only. I mentioned before, take a look at all the problems I'm having, and you'll know exactly what they are going to change with this gen...