PowerColor HD 6870 X2 2 GB

Damn_Smooth · Jul 17, 2011

I probably wouldn't rag on it if I wasn't broke. I suppose that by the time it does drop in price, the 7000 cards will almost be here.

Volkszorn88 · Jul 17, 2011

Curious can you cfx a 6870x2 with a regular 6870 and work as Tri-fire?

Damn_Smooth · Jul 17, 2011

Volkszorn88 said:
Curious can you cfx a 6870x2 with a regular 6870 and work as Tri-fire?

Yup. That's it's major advantage.

Cool Mike · Jul 19, 2011

Purchased a 6870X2 today!

Was able to find a $50 off Newegg Business coupon code with the purchase of $250 or more.
Got it for $469.99. The price I was willing to pay. Should receive my 6870X2 Thursday!!!

wolf · Jul 19, 2011

Cool Mike said:
Was able to find a $50 off Newegg Business coupon code with the purchase of $250 or more.
Got it for $469.99. The price I was willing to pay. Should receive my 6870X2 Thursday!!!

let us all know how awesome it is to own yeah. $470 is a very very reasonable price to pay for two 6870's on a single PCB :toast:

Pestilence · Jul 19, 2011

I just noticed they dropped the price to 509.. Meh..

Pestilence · Jul 19, 2011

wolf said:
let us all know how awesome it is to own yeah. $470 is a very very reasonable price to pay for two 6870's on a single PCB

Considering you can get 2 for 349.99.. No.. No its not. Its a major ripoff still.

Fourstaff · Jul 19, 2011

Pestilence said:
Considering you can get 2 for 349.99.. No.. No its not. Its a major ripoff still.

No sir, its not a ripoff. If you are gaming in a mITX case, this is a good alternative to GTX580 or similar. Every product has its market.

dir_d · Jul 19, 2011

plus quadfire

Cool Mike · Jul 19, 2011

The advantage of a single card 6870X2 vs crossfire has many advantages.

>Better cooling due to no card below/above the other.
>Advanced design. Quality power phase control. More efficient data flow and control due to GPU's and memory on the same PCB.
>Better power efficiency
>More power phases.
>Faster than two 6870's in crossfire.

Wiz could elaborate more.

Pestilence · Jul 20, 2011

Fourstaff said:
No sir, its not a ripoff. If you are gaming in a mITX case, this is a good alternative to GTX580 or similar. Every product has its market.

From a person who ordered one and then cancelled his order.. IMO its a ripoff. I shall wait for the Powercolor 6970X2

Fourstaff · Jul 20, 2011

Pestilence said:
From a person who ordered one and then cancelled his order.. IMO its a ripoff. I shall wait for the Powercolor 6970X2

You probably should pick up economics then

6970X2 is basically 6990

Cool Mike · Jul 20, 2011

Got a slightly better deal on the 6870X2. The price did drop from 519.99 to 509.99. Called Newegg and they refunded me back 10 bucks! My final cost $459.99. Newegg is the best.
When I receive it I will run 3D Mark Vantage. In performance settings I average 24,700 currently.

Hello Everyone
I received my 6870X2 Thursday. I waited until Friday to install it because I was waiting on a new power supply. Purchased a OCZ ZX GOLD series 850W.
The Powercolor 6870X2 has more than meet my expectations. Pcmark Vantage was running 30,400 vs 24,700 with a Powercolor 6970 PCS+ @ 950 core 1475 Memory speed.
Was tired of PCmark vantage so I purchased PCMARK 11. The 6870X2 is running stable at 1010Mhz on both cores and 1200Mhz Memory. 1.268 core Voltage. I have been using afterburner but thought I would give Trixx
a try. I like it. I hit over 9000 score with PCmark 11. By the way it has 13 power phases. Very solid card...
Screen shots attached.

campdude · Aug 7, 2011

Yea New Egg has it for under 469.99 Canadian... its a deal i think.

Calexan · Aug 12, 2011

noob question here will this card need Lucid Hydra Drivers out of the box? since it is already 2 GPU
on a single PCB im just curious

HossHuge · Aug 12, 2011

Calexan said:
noob question here will this card need Lucid Hydra Drivers out of the box? since it is already 2 GPU
on a single PCB im just curious

Nope. Lucid Hydra is only for cards from differnt companies or from differnet chips from the same company. For example an AMD card and a Nvidia card or a Nvidia 9800gt and a Nvidia GTX460.

Edit: The Lucid chip on this card works just like a crossfire bridge. It connects the two chips.

Melvis · Aug 12, 2011

Cool Mike said:
Got a slightly better deal on the 6870X2. The price did drop from 519.99 to 509.99. Called Newegg and they refunded me back 10 bucks! My final cost $459.99. Newegg is the best.
When I receive it I will run 3D Mark Vantage. In performance settings I average 24,700 currently.

Hello Everyone
I received my 6870X2 Thursday. I waited until Friday to install it because I was waiting on a new power supply. Purchased a OCZ ZX GOLD series 850W.
The Powercolor 6870X2 has more than meet my expectations. Pcmark Vantage was running 30,400 vs 24,700 with a Powercolor 6970 PCS+ @ 950 core 1475 Memory speed.
Was tired of PCmark vantage so I purchased PCMARK 11. The 6870X2 is running stable at 1010Mhz on both cores and 1200Mhz Memory. 1.268 core Voltage. I have been using afterburner but thought I would give Trixx
a try. I like it. I hit over 9000 score with PCmark 11. By the way it has 13 power phases. Very solid card...
Screen shots attached.

Would you be so awesome and run that card on this benchmark here> http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141708 and post your scores in DX11 and DX10 mode?

That would be much appreciated :toast:

Cool Mike · Sep 1, 2011

Just received my second 6870X2 (Quad GPU's now)

I am crazy, When Newegg dropped the price to $469 I went all out and purchased my 2nd 6870X2. I was ready for a big upgrade. Purchased a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 with the NF200 chip that gets you two 16X PCIe lanes. The Z68X also has 24 phase power. Also picked up 16GB Gskill 1866 Mhz memory. Already had a Intel i5 2500K, its running at 4.8Ghz. A OCZ 1000W GOLD PSU feeds it all. My 3DMARK11 score is P11917.
Rig Pic attached. Dressing the wiring was not complete.

fi011 · Oct 30, 2011

Hi guys. Do you think that my configuration would make bottleneck 4 Powercolor HD6870 X2?

My configuration is following:
Phenom II 980 x4 4,0GHz / 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Kingston HyperX blu / M4N98TD EVO / Gainward GTX470 / Samsung 2TB / LCpower Veritas 920R / Acer P236H / Chieftec CTG-600 600W

Also, do you think my PSU would be enough for this beast?

Quick responses are highly appreciated, because I would be getting that card tomorrow.

Thanks in advance...

Damn_Smooth · Oct 30, 2011

fi011 said:
Hi guys. Do you think that my configuration would make bottleneck 4 Powercolor HD6870 X2?

My configuration is following:
Phenom II 980 x4 4,0GHz / 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Kingston HyperX blu / M4N98TD EVO / Gainward GTX470 / Samsung 2TB / LCpower Veritas 920R / Acer P236H / Chieftec CTG-600 600W

Also, do you think my PSU would be enough for this beast?

Quick responses are highly appreciated, because I would be getting that card tomorrow.

Thanks in advance...

Not too sure about the PSU, but there wouldn't be too much of a bottleneck.

fi011 · Oct 30, 2011

Damn_Smooth said:
Not too sure about the PSU, but there wouldn't be too much of a bottleneck.

So you mean there would be NO bottleneck, or there would be SOME bottleneck?

I hope you are right.

It says minimum PSU requirement for that card is 600W.

Nesters · Oct 30, 2011

Your PSU has 2 +12V 25A with max combined load from them to be ~500W, you should be fine.

Bottleneck here is Phenom II - it will keep your frames lower in quite a lot of games (bad memory management, CPU could handle higher FPS). You shouldn't worry tho, it will still be more than playable.

If you want to get the most out of it, wait for Ivy Bridge and switch platforms.

Frick · Oct 30, 2011

Nesters said:
If you want to get the most out of it, wait for Ivy Bridge and switch platforms.

Or just go with a 2600k and call it a day.

Charts with game performance.

erocker · Oct 30, 2011

The PSU is most likely too weak.

fi011 · Oct 30, 2011

Yes, I know it is weak, so Ill take modular CFT-650 Chieftec.
I dont have money 4 sandy...
I heard that CF, especially dual GPUz have issues with bad scaling, microstuttering, and poor performance in games... Is it true? Cause I can take GTX 570 instead... So what would be better buy?

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