Testseek.co.uk have collected 31 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB GDDR5 PCIe.
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Abstract: “Serious gaming starts here.” With that slogan AMD launched its Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 graphics cards in March. It's actually surprisingly apt, as the HD 7870 can handle pretty much any game in Full HD resolution (1920x1080), albeit not always at the h...
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Published: 2012-05-16, Author: Dave , review by: techradar.com
Zero Core Power tech, Overclocking headroom, Good third, party cooling array
Price to performance ratio, Miniscule overclock over stock edition
Cooler is very quiet, Good overclocking headroom, we like the black cooler,
50mhz increase could be more, Gigabyte 3 fan cooler performs the best, Kitguru says: Another excellent graphics card from Sapphire, but Gigabyte win this round, Rating: 8.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21, Share, Facebook, Tw
We have reviewed many cards from AMD partners in recent weeks and the Sapphire HD7870 Overclock Edition is another excellent card targeting the demanding enthusiast audience. We don't think the Sapphire cards are quite as pretty as the XFX Black Edition m...
Looking first to the build quality and design of these two cards it is clear that both Sapphire and XFX have improved on the reference design cards that AMD first launched. In each case we have custom PCB's with much improved dual fan coolers and the s...
Abstract: Head over here for our full reviews head-to-head with the XFX R7870 Black EditionSapphire are readying their 7870 cards and first out of the gate is their custom design OverClock Edition. We have one on our test bench today and here is a gallery which s...
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 OC 2GB is one of the best in its class today. Pre-overclocked, it is 5 to 8% faster than the reference Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition as well as reference-design products from other brands. The original Dual-X cooler endows it ...
Abstract: As AMD’s 28nm allocation has improved so has the selection of cards available on the market. We’re still in the first phase of the Radeon HD 7000 series rollout, with AMD’s partners building semi-custom cards based on AMD’s reference PCB, but even wi...
Throughout our testing we found that the Sapphire HD 7870 OC Edition video card had better performance in every game compared to the Radeon HD 6970 and the GeForce GTX 570. Not only did it average higher framerates in all of our testing, it also allowed u...
I'm just going to cut to the chase for this conclusion. I have been sitting here thinking of any negatives this card may have and about the only thing I could come up with is that the cooler dumps its heat inside the case. Truly not a big deal. What AM...
