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PC World‘s review Edit

AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series has arrived, and the results speak for themselves: The Radeon HD 6870 is the midrange card to beat.
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Oct 21, 2010
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HotHardware‘s review Edit

Next, the HD 6870 Turbo from HIS did very well in our testing. Like we said, its performance was neck and neck with the PCS+ 6870, usually providing identical scores during our benchmarks. The most surprising feature about the Fan Turbo 6870 is that it ran 5 degrees cooler and consumed 8 watts less than PowerColor's 6870 PCS+.
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Jan 13, 2011
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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit

AMD was likely losing ground in the $200 segment and because of that felt the need to get a reply out sooner than its original schedule had intended. That is good news for gamers: now we have better, lower cost options from AMD and also a forced hand from NVIDIA that caused a price drop on the GTX 460 lineup. If I was given a $220 budget today and asked to pick between the AMD or NVIDIA options, I would probably lean towards the AMD HD 6870 if only for the triple monitor support; other users might value the ability to run some sort of 3D Vision gaming and PhysX titles better on the NVIDIA cards. It is a cop-out, but all of these cards are good options.
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Oct 21, 2010
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AnandTech‘s review Edit

Meanwhile if you care about a balance of performance and power/heat/noise, then it’s the 6870 versus the EVGA GTX 460; and the EVGA card wins in an unfair fight. As an overclocked card in a launch card article we’re not going to give it a nod, but we’re not going to ignore it; it’s 5% faster than the reference 6870 while at the same time it’s cooler and quieter. Without the EVGA card in the picture though, the 6870 is clearly sitting at a sweet spot in terms of price, performance, and noise.
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Oct 21, 2010
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TechSpot‘s review Edit

In the dozen games tested, the HD 6870 outmuscled the GTX 460 1GB in all but one -- and that was a draw. The Radeon HD 6870 was 19% faster than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB on average, marking a decisive win for AMD this time around.
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Oct 22, 2010
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HEXUS‘s review Edit

Radeon HD 6870 performs better than specifications would suggest, and its numbers fall between HD 5870 and HD 5850 - at a lower price. What's more, both new Radeon card offer more in the way of features, too.
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Oct 22, 2010
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expertreviews‘s review Edit

This is a fantastic graphics card, but 5000-series owners won’t be too excited, and true enthusiasts should wait for upcoming releases before deciding.
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Oct 22, 2010
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hardocp‘s review Edit

Any way you slice it, the current Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 offerings are stellar deals. Better performance, lower prices, lower power, lower temps, and just a really good gameplay experience!
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Oct 21, 2010
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PC Magazine‘s review Edit

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 represents some major improvements in the sub-$250 video card space, but Nvidia solutions can provide a bit more performance for the same price.
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Nov 03, 2010
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Softpedia‘s review Edit

Now that you have seen the numbers it's time to draw our conclusion regarding the Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, that we took a look at today, as well as regarding AMD's second generation DirectX 11 architecture.
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Oct 22, 2010
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HotHardware‘s review Edit

The new Radeon HD 6800 series cards performed very well throughout our entire battery of tests. Generally speaking, the Radeon HD 6870 performs about on par with the GeForce GTX 470 and somewhat behind the Radeon HD 5870, but it does so while offering lower power consumption. The Radeon HD 6850 finds itself in a similar situation. Overall, the Radeon HD 6850 trails the older Radeon HD 5850, but hangs with or outruns a stock GeForce GTX 460 1GB, an overclocked 460, however, will trypically be faster.
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Oct 21, 2010
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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit

The 6870 looks set to continue the errors made by its forefather, and is simply priced too high against a constantly changing environment. Indeed after Nvidia's price-slashing exercise yesterday, the new stock-clocked 6870 is more expensive than pre-overclocked cards, such as the EVGA GTX 460 FTW edition that we've used for comparison.
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Oct 21, 2010
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www.legitreviews.com‘s review Edit

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 proved to be two very solid performing mainstream video cards from what we saw in our initial testing with them. These cards are officially AMD's second generation DirectX 11 video card series, which is impressive as NVIDIA still has not released all of their first generation cards yet. When AMD designed the Radeon HD 6800 'Barts' series of GPUs they wanted to have Radeon HD 5800-class performance, but optimize the GPU to lower power use and the price tag. The cards do in fact have Radeon HD 5800-class performance in general and we saw much better power efficiency from the cards. This was done by lower the transistor count from 2.15 billion to 1.7 billion and as a result the die size went from 334mm2 to just 255mm2. Since both the Radeon HD 5800 and 6800 series are built by TSMC on the 40nm process we can see that AMD really cleaned things up inside the core and tuned this GPU for efficiency.
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Oct 21, 2010
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overclockersclub‘s review Edit

One thing most people will have a hard time with is the fact that the 6870 and 6850 are not the replacements for the strong performing HD 5870 and HD 5850. These are cards that are meant to fit into a mid-range performance and price point whose introduction also ushers in support for new technologies such as Stereoscopic 3D, HDMI 1.4a and Display Port 1.2 and that offer up a host of display opportunities. You now have the ability to run Eyefinity setups without expensive adapters with a fairly inexpensive video card. The HD 68XX series are cards that target NVIDIA's GTX 460 and hit the mark on performance and price. The performance of the HD 6870 was actually better than I was expecting and shows that you can get excellent performance for a sub $250 price tag. All-in-all, the two series delivered excellent performance in the game testing by comparison to a stacked field.
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Oct 21, 2010
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PC Pro‘s review Edit

The HD 6870 performed well in our temperature and power tests. A peak temperature of 78 degrees is perfectly acceptable and sure to come down when board partners release cards with more efficient coolers, and our test rig’s peak power draw of 289W is broadly in line with the draw from the equivalent Nvidia’s cards.
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Oct 22, 2010
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benchmarkreviews‘s review Edit

Beginning with frame rate performance, the AMD Radeon HD 6870 competes at a level slightly better than the older and more expensive Radeon HD 5850 video card, but it doesn't find a true NVIDIA GeForce target. This concurs with AMD's own results, placing the Radeon HD 6870 between the 5850 and 5870 in their product lineup. There were a few tests that matched the Radeon HD 6870 with the GeForce GTX 470, and then there were tests that pegged it against the 1GB GeForce GTX 460. Most times it required a heavily overclocked GTX 460 to find similar competition, especially because NVIDIA's GTX 465 was retired only a month after it launched.
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Oct 21, 2010
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hardwarecanucks‘s review Edit

Whenever a new or even “refreshed” architecture is released, there are always high expectations for performance and even pricing that usually fizzle out once reality sets in. AMD’s HD 6870 and HD 6850 are two cards that finally buck this trend and actually managed to exceed our expectations in nearly every conceivable way. The changes between Cypress and Barts can’t necessarily be counted as revolutionary but AMD has shown how small tweaks to an existing architecture can result in a family of products that deliver the goods at a reasonable price point.
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Oct 20, 2010
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tweaktown‘s review Edit

Overall it’s got to be said, at stock clocks the value of the HD 6870 isn’t as strong as the HD 6850. With that said, it’s also got to be mentioned that the only cards that offer better value when it comes to out of the box performance are the HD 6850 and GTS 450, with the latter really being in a different price bracket.
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Oct 22, 2010
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Tom's Hardware‘s review Edit

The New Radeon HD 6000 Family AMD Radeon HD 6870 And 6850: Is Barts A Step Forward? : When you're up on top, it's pretty hard to imagine getting knocked back down. Perhaps that's why, after a mind-blowing Radeon HD 5000-series launch, AMD seems to...
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Oct 21, 2010
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computershopper‘s review Edit

AMD’s latest gaming card doesn’t outperform Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480, but it's surprisingly close considering it costs about half the price. It’s a great choice for all but the most demanding gamers.
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Oct 21, 2010
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www.legitreviews.com‘s review Edit

As you can see the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 video cards look great, but sadly we can't mention their specifications, show their performance or talk about pricing. You'll have to wait until later this week in order to see that!
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Oct 18, 2010
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tweaktown‘s review Edit

No doubt AMD want to achieve a few things with this refresh; offer us more performance, at a cheaper price and with less power draw. Friday we’ll tell you if they have managed to achieve this. Plus we’ll answer the gun things like overclocking performance and whether or not Crossfire scaling has improved come the hours and days after launch.
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Oct 19, 2010
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