PowerColor HD6870x2 Pro Reviews

If the Radeon HD 6870 X2 was designed to stifle NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580, then the card has to be deemed a success - it's both faster and cheaper than its green-blooded rival. The card's opportune positioning is such that PowerColor has found a sweet spot at around the £315 mark - it's comfortably quicker than anything at this price point. Heck, stretch your budget right the way up to £400, and you're still unlikely to find a graphics card that's as quick as this. Single-card performance is excellent, but there are a couple of caveats; the 6870 X2 can get hot under load, performance at mega-high resolutions can become memory limited, and multi-GPU performance is driver dependant so your mileage may vary. More importantly, if single-card convenience isn't high on your list of priorities, a pair of standard Radeon HD 6870s cost less and offer practically identical performance. But credit where it's due, PowerColor's Radeon HD 6870 X2 is one of the more affordable dual-GPU solutions on the market and punches well above its weight. If pricing dips closer to the £300 mark, this goes from being intriguing to irresistible

The HD 6870 X2 is currently listed at Newegg for $520 which is certainly not cheap. When taking performance into account the card actually becomes the best price/performance card in the high-end segment, yet I would like to see lower pricing, definitely below $500 to make this card attractive to more buyers.