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
XFX RADON HD 6870 FRONT SHOT:D
The multi-monitor issues are just that, Eyefinity issues; not DP issues. There was an article talking about how the software team over at ATi didn't know about Eyefinity until the last moment and so they had to scramble together drivers quickly, that's why it's buggy, not because of the DP.
EDIT: the potential that DP as a standard has, and has already brought in v1.2 is far more exciting than HDMI IMHO and I hope it replaces HDMI, the quicker the better, because I've found working with HDMI to bring about sub-par performance, although admittedly, I have very limited experience dealing with it.
I really wish I could put one of my 5870's in my mac...I wonder if the 6870 will be the first card to work on both?
As to DP and eyefinity, we are a year later, so they have had a year to work on drivers...or right...Eyefinity is HARDWARE-BASED, not software, so drivers have little effect.
Anyway, it's been a year, and I still have issues. I have issues when using DP alone, nevermind using multiple monitors...anyway, I think it's ME relating my problems, and what I think causes them, that has some people thinking that way. Nobody else, really, besides me, is tlaking about eyefinity as a problem. Mind you, I'm one of few people acutally using Eyefinity, so that's not surprising.
Crap. and I played BC2 with Reayth last night...forgot to ask what card he's got...
But they haven't.
The software behind Eyefinity revolves around making the multiple displays connected seen as a single large surface to windows, but when it comes down to actually un-muxing the big image down to each monitor, that's all hardware.
From the same article: Now, admittedly, I am guessing here, but it really seems that ATI is guessing at hte cause as well, or else they'd have it fixed....
As well, these new cards have a new, different, DP implementation, and truly, they msut have made that chage specifically because of the outstanding issues.
I'd really love it if AMD would step up to the plate, give me a call, and get this problem I have fixed...but they truly seem to ignore me on this issue.
The cut out on the back looks sweet though. + the pricing is in line with what one would expect. Going to make a nice stocking stuffer for X-Mas hmmm :p