Compare Sapphire Radeon HD 6870, XFX Radeon 6870 and MSI N470GTX

[Wajidali]

I am waiting to provide finishing touch to my gamming computer system. I have assembled all the parts that are needed but the main part that is required for gaming purpose is remaining. I mean to say that the graphic card is remaining. I need to decide, which is the best graphic card I can have to complete my gaming computer system? The choices for me are MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II and the other Reference Radeon HD 6870. I mean to say that it can be Sapphire Radeon HD 6870, or XFX Radeon HD 6870 or XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition. In short there are four choices to have and only one graphic card to choose. If you can provide me information related to these graphic cards then it will be great.

[MaCiNToSHeR]

I think that you must go for MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II, because I think that this can be the best graphic card you can have. Military Class Components: Hi-Cap C supply voltages of the GPU more precise and improved stability. SSC (Solid chokes), 0 noise. Solid condensers for a longer product life. Supports GPU function by Afterburner. 3DVision Technologies PhysX and Surround. Supports PhysX technology for more realistic effects. Supports Surround 3DVision technology for use up to 3 independent monitor outputs for realistic 3D experience. (Requires 3 3D monitors and 3D glasses).

[CACTUS101]

The Radeon HD 6870 or HD 6850 is not the successor to the HD 5870 is, but rather that of the HD 5770, HD 5830 and HD 5850 graphics cards. AMD promises a level of performance well above that of a Radeon HD 5850 graphics card. The new cards are based on the new "beard" GPU, which will continue to be manufactured by TSMC in 40nm process and has over 1.7 billion transistors. Technically, the Barts-GPU is a further optimized representative of the Evergreen-generation (HD 5XXX) and is still in the 5D-VLIW shader design structured and organized into 14 SIMD units to each of 80 ALUs and 4 TMUs. With a HD 6870 with "Barts XT" GPU arising from 1120 stream processors, 56 texture units and 32 raster output stages. As with Cypress, AMD familiar with the memory interface to a derivative with 256-bit and GDDR5 memory. AMD Radeon HD 6870 clocks the GPU at 900MHz, the GDDR5 memory with 4200 MHz effective. Under load the card, according to AMD begrudge a maximum 151 watts in idle is 19 W. In this respect, two 6-pin connectors on the HD 6870 graphics card provided. In the Windows operating the chip / shader clocks only with 100 MHz and memory at 600 MHz.

[xanix]

In the area of tessellation gives AMD the new graphics cards, some improvements. Especially when using the DirectX 11 features Nvidia could pull his cards quasi-Fermi circles around AMD's Radeon cards of the Evergreen series. To change this, AMD fixed-funtion unit, the thread management and the data buffer has improved, so that the Tessellator can now theoretically a triangle (3D-primitive) process per clock. With a moderate use of tessellation AMD talks about double performance compared to the HD 5870, with extreme Tessellation but this advantage is almost back to zero. Another new feature AMD's Unified Video Decoder is the third generation (UVD3). This brings hardware acceleration for MPEG-2, DivX, VC-1, H.264, MVC and 3-D HDTV video, which the efficiency and power consumption of the system will come good. As connections are AMD's HD 6800 cards per a dual-and single-link DVI and two DisplayPort connections in the mini version 1.2 and an HDMI 1.4a connection with (both are important for 3D content). In this reference design, these connections also ensure that every Radeon HD 6800 card four displays can be directly controlled. With the help of chain-linked display (DP 1.2) and Display Port 1.2 has any Radeon HD 6800 card even able to drive up to six displays with Eyefinity.