Testseek.co.uk have collected 181 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCIe.
March 2012
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The editors liked
Good Overclocking
Feature Packed
Very cool running
Low Power consumption
Southern Island/GCN goodies
Serious overclocking potential
Solid gaming performers at their respective MSRPs
AMD 7series GPUs provide decent multimedia capabilities
Both GPUs overclock well
37% faster than the previous generation
ZeroCore Power
Low power consumption
Our favourite range in the new 7x series line up
Bags of overclocking headroom
They look to be hitting the right price this time
Significant improvement on the last generation
The editors didn't like
Could be cheaper in comparison to performance
Fairly uninspiring stock performance
Needs overclocking to be relevant
It feels as if AMD is keeping Pitcairn pricing high
The HD 7870 has low power consumption and high graphical output. It supports up to six displays, and the GPU is overclockable to above 1GHz
This video card is somewhat dated and doesn't perform as well as newer cards
The AMD Radeon HD 7870 isn't the best graphics card on the market, but it is a decent high-end graphics card. With its superior processing speed and intuitive PowerTune feature that automatically overclocks the card when possible, you are sure to get the...
Abstract: AMD’s newest graphics cards based on the Pitcairn GPU of the Southern Islands family, namely Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7850, were officially unveiled about a month ago, but it’s only now that they can be found in shops. These are perform...
AMD’s Pitcairn GPU is in fact a rather pleasant surprise. Of the three GPUs in the Radeon HD 7000 family, it is by some distance the most efficient for its size and energy consumed. While it has fewer execution units than Cayman (used in the Radeon HD ...
Final Words & Conclusion Not bad huh ? The entire 7000 series show respectable tweak and overclock performance. There's not a card out there that can't do another 10% extra on the GPU baseclock really. If you are luck and know how to do so, a 20% ove...
Where the Radeon HD 7900 cards were impressive from a pure performance stand point and the Radeon HD 7700 cards brought new features and performance per watt to the sub $200 market, the HD 7800 cards are really the ones we think warrant the most attent...
Abstract: In 2009-2010, AMD launched the entire 4 chip Evergreen series in 6 months. By previous standards this was a quick pace for a new design, especially since AMD had not previously attempted a 4 chip launch in such a manner. Now in 2012 AMD’s Southern Is...
There is a whole lot to like about the HD 7870 2GB. Phenomenally low power consumption for a high-end card, low temperatures, and a reasonable if not colossal in speed over the previous generation's HD 6970 2GB make it very attractive. Needless to say, it...
Summarizing the Radeon HD 7800 series performance is fairly easy. Throughout our entire battery of benchmarks, the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition typically outpaced the Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 570 by a few percentage points, although there were a f...
Final Words & Conclusion With the GCN architecture AMD has proven itself to deliver a mature and great performing series of GPUs. The 7900 was received positive, we think the 7700 series is okay (albeit too expensive), the 7800 series however surpris...
Let me start by providing you some hard facts on the performance we observed from the new Radeon HD 7800 GPUs. Gaming on the Radeon HD 7870 at 2560x1600, it was on average just 12% slower than the HD 7950 and 7% slower than the GeForce GTX 580. Meanwh...
