Sapphire Radeon Hd 7870 2gb Ghz Edition Oc Review

Today we will be looking at the sapphire hd 7870 ghz edition.

Sapphire radeon hd 7870 2gb ghz edition oc review.

The reference hd 7870 and the sapphire oc edition both top out at the same 1 200mhz overclock both hitting roughly the same running temperatures. The amd reference cooler was maybe slightly. The sapphire card used packaging similar to other 7 series cards from the sapphire brand. Pardon us for starting our review with a marketing slogan but it does a great job in describing sapphire s hd 7870 ghz oc edition graphics card.

Sapphire hd 7870 ghz edition oc 2gb gddr5. The sapphire hd 7870 ghz edition is ready for directx 11 1 and the new windows 8 operating system as well as delivering all the features of the current directx 11 such as directcompute11 and multi threaded communications with the cpu. The new sapphire hd 7800 series of graphics cards is based on the third family of gpus from amd which are built by a new 28nm process and feature the highly acclaimed gcn graphics processing architecture. Sapphire hd7870 ghz edition 2gb oc review april 16 2012 joe shields reviews video cards 7 if you are not in the market for the monster 7950 7970 tahiti series or the lower end 7750 7770 series cape verde amd has a market segment to share with you in their mid classed pitcarin which is comprised of the 7870 and 7850.

Amd s pitcairn cards will be the radeon hd 7870 ghz edition and the radeon hd 7850. The 7870 is a full pitcairn clocked at 1000mhz core and paired with 2gb of gddr5 running at 4 8ghz. Sapphire radeon hd 7870 xt review. From 2009 shawn is also taking care of our memory reviews and from may 2011 shawn also takes care of our cpu chipset and.

Be respectful keep it civil and stay on topic. This card features a factory overclock as well as a dual fan cooling solution. Radeon hd 7870 is a performance segment. The difference is that amd has shut down a chunk of the.

And is running at the same speed the original hd 7970 debuted at before the ghz edition landed. How will it stack up to the competition.