PowerColor HD 7870 PCS+ 2 GB

, on Sep 21st, 2012, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: PowerColor

Introduction

Earlier this year, AMD launched their Radeon HD 7800 Series. The GPU Pitcairn is a downscale from the HD 7900 "Tahiti" silicon that introduced AMD's new Graphics Core Next architecture. Targeting a wide price-range in-between $250-$350, the HD 7800 series falls into the market-segment both AMD and NVIDIA have referred to as the "sweet-spot" segment. Apart from 1280 stream processors, Pitcairn has 80 Texture Memory Units (TMUs), 32 ROPs (Raster Operations), and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory.

PowerColor's HD 7870 PCS+ Vortex II is a fully customized HD 7870 design implementation. It comes with a dual-fan cooler and a large overclock out of the box, making it one of the fastest HD 7870 cards around. We have seen many price reductions bringing the price of the HD 7870 down significantly. At this time, the PowerColor HD 7870 Vortex II retails at $290, which is $40 higher than the cheapest HD 7870 available.

HD 7870 Market Segment Analysis
	Radeon HD 6950	GeForce GTX 570	Radeon HD 6970	Radeon HD 7850	GeForce GTX 660	Radeon HD 7870	PowerColor HD 7870 PCS+	GeForce GTX 580	GeForce GTX 660 Ti	Radeon HD 7950	GeForce GTX 670	Radeon HD 7970
Shader Units	1408	480	1536	1024	960	1280	1280	512	1344	1792	1344	2048
ROPs	32	40	32	32	24	32	32	48	24	32	32	32
Graphics Processor	Cayman	GF110	Cayman	Pitcairn	GK106	Pitcairn	Pitcairn	GF110	GK104	Tahiti	GK104	Tahiti
Transistors	2640M	3000M	2640M	2800M	2540M	2800M	2800M	3000M	3500M	4310M	3500M	4310M
Memory Size	2048 MB	1280 MB	2048 MB	2048 MB	2048 MB	2048 MB	2048 MB	1536 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB	2048 MB	3072 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	192 bit	256 bit	256 bit	384 bit	192 bit	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit
Core Clock	800 MHz	732 MHz	880 MHz	860 MHz	980 MHz+	1000 MHz	1150 MHz	772 MHz	915 MHz+	800 MHz	915 MHz+	925 MHz
Memory Clock	1250 MHz	950 MHz	1375 MHz	1200 MHz	1502 MHz	1200 MHz	1250 MHz	1002 MHz	1502 MHz	1250 MHz	1502 MHz	1375 MHz
Price	$200	$250	$380	$200	$230	$250	$290	$430	$300	$300	$380	$430