PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 PCS+ Call Of Duty Edition Review

ccokeman - November 28, 2010
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Specifications:

Graphics Engine	RADEON HD6870
Video Memory	1GB GDDR5
Engine Clock	940MHz
Memory Clock	1100MHz (4.4Gbps)
Memory Interface	256bit
DirectX® Support	11
Bus Standard	PCIE 2.1
Standard Display Connectors	DL-DVI-I/SL-DVI-D/HDMI/2* mini DisplayPort
Feature Support
OpenGL	Support
CrossFireX™ Technology	Support
ATI Stream Technology	Support
ATI Eyefinity Technology	Support
ATI Hypermemory Technology
Display Support
VGA Output	Via Adapter
DVI Output	DL-DVI-I/ SL-DVI-D
DisplayPort	On Board
HDMI	On Board
TV Output
HDTV Output
HDCP Support	Support
Maximum Resolution
VGA	2048x1536
DVI	2560x1600
DisplayPort	2560x1600
HDMI	1920x1200
Power Specs + Board Dimensions
Board Dimensions	241.3mmx111.2mmx38mm
Minimum System Power requirement (W)	500W
Extention Power Connector	Two 6-Pin PCI Express Power Connectors

Features:

1GB GDDR5 Memory
140.8 Gbps memory bandwidth (maximum)
2.1 TFLOPs compute power
Double slot form factor
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
          o 1120 Stream Processors
          o 56 Texture Units
          o 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
          o 32 Color ROP Units
PCI Express® 2.1 x16 bus interface
Eye-Definition" graphics
DirectX® 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 4.1 support
Image quality enhancement technology: Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes; Adaptive anti-aliasing; Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA); 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering; 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
o Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
o Display grouping: Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration:
o AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology; OpenCL 1.1; DirectCompute 11; Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling;
UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264; VC-1; MPEG-2 (SD & HD); Multi-View Codec (MVC); MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid); Adobe Flash
Enhanced Video Quality features
                + Advanced post-processing and scaling
                + Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
                + Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
                + Independent video gamma control
                + Dynamic video range control
Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
AMD HD3D technology5
          o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
          o Blu-ray 3D support
          o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
          o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
AMD CrossFireXTM multi-GPU technology
o Dual GPU scaling
Cutting-edge integrated display support
o DisplayPort 1.2