PowerColor HD 6870 PCS++ 1 GB

, on Apr 7th, 2011, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: PowerColor

Introduction

In October 2010, AMD released their Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870 which are based on the Barts GPU core. At its time it was an outstanding choice for the $250 segment, but NVIDIA countered this offer with their GeForce GTX 560 Ti which quickly took over that market.
Now AMD board partners are coming out with feature-rich, highly overclocked versions of the HD 6870 that try to increase the model's competitiveness.
PowerColor has a long history of creating overclocked boards with their PCS, PCS+ and PCS++ Series. Today we have on our testbench the PowerColor HD 6870 PCS++ which comes with a revamped board design and runs at the highest clock speeds available on any HD 6870 today. Pricing seems reasonable too, with just a small price increase over the reference design HD 6870 cards.

	GeForce GTX 460	GeForce GTX 460	Radeon HD 6850	Radeon HD 5850	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon HD 6870	PowerColor HD 6870 PCS++	GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Radeon HD 5870	GeForce GTX 570
Shader units	336	336	960	1440	448	1120	1120	384	1600	480
ROPs	24	32	32	32	40	32	32	32	32	40
GPU	GF104	GF104	Barts	Cypress	GF100	Barts	Barts	GF114	Cypress	GF110
Transistors	1950M	1950M	1700M	2154M	3200M	1700M	1700M	1950M	2154M	3000M
Memory Size	768 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB
Memory Bus Width	192 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	320 bit
Core Clock	675 MHz	675 MHz	775 MHz	725 MHz	607 MHz	900 MHz	975 MHz	823 MHz	850 MHz	732 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz	1050 MHz	1150 MHz	1002 MHz	1200 MHz	950 MHz
Price	$150	$180	$180	$200	$250	$220	$230	$250	$270	$350