PowerColor HD 7870 PCS+ 2 GB Review 16

PowerColor HD 7870 PCS+ 2 GB Review

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Introduction

Earlier this year, AMD launched their Radeon HD 7800 Series. The GPU Pitcairn is a downscale from the HD 7900 "Tahiti" silicon that introduced AMD's new Graphics Core Next architecture. Targeting a wide price-range in-between $250-$350, the HD 7800 series falls into the market-segment both AMD and NVIDIA have referred to as the "sweet-spot" segment. Apart from 1280 stream processors, Pitcairn has 80 Texture Memory Units (TMUs), 32 ROPs (Raster Operations), and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory.

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PowerColor's HD 7870 PCS+ Vortex II is a fully customized HD 7870 design implementation. It comes with a dual-fan cooler and a large overclock out of the box, making it one of the fastest HD 7870 cards around. We have seen many price reductions bringing the price of the HD 7870 down significantly. At this time, the PowerColor HD 7870 Vortex II retails at $290, which is $40 higher than the cheapest HD 7870 available.



HD 7870 Market Segment Analysis
 Radeon
HD 6950
GeForce
GTX 570
Radeon
HD 6970
Radeon
HD 7850
GeForce
GTX 660
Radeon
HD 7870
PowerColor
HD 7870 PCS+
GeForce
GTX 580
GeForce
GTX 660 Ti
Radeon
HD 7950
GeForce
GTX 670
Radeon
HD 7970
Shader Units140848015361024960128012805121344179213442048
ROPs324032322432324824323232
Graphics ProcessorCaymanGF110CaymanPitcairnGK106PitcairnPitcairnGF110GK104TahitiGK104Tahiti
Transistors2640M3000M2640M2800M2540M2800M2800M3000M3500M4310M3500M4310M
Memory Size2048 MB1280 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB1536 MB2048 MB3072 MB2048 MB3072 MB
Memory Bus Width256 bit320 bit256 bit256 bit192 bit256 bit256 bit384 bit192 bit384 bit256 bit384 bit
Core Clock800 MHz732 MHz880 MHz860 MHz980 MHz+1000 MHz1150 MHz772 MHz915 MHz+800 MHz915 MHz+925 MHz
Memory Clock1250 MHz950 MHz1375 MHz1200 MHz1502 MHz1200 MHz1250 MHz1002 MHz1502 MHz1250 MHz1502 MHz1375 MHz
Price$200$250$380$200$230$250$290$430$300$300$380$430
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