Capsule Review: Sapphire's Radeon HD 7870 Overclock Edition

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• silverblue - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - link

  Why show a card that the 7870 has no hopes of getting anywhere near?
  
  The 7950 is there to show how close the 7870 is.
  The 7970 is there to show how much stronger it is than the 7950.
  
  I admit that I'd have liked to see the 680 there, but with the 7970 on the graph, I think you can work out where the 680 would come in most games.
  
  You're nitpicking and over nothing particularly important. You may have had a few bad experiences but there's no need to vent them in the comments section of a 7870 article. If you think AT is biased, go to Guru3D.

• Spunjji - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link

  LOLOLOLOLOLOL
  
  Dude, get a hobby or something. This site is in no way AMD biased.

• Wreckage - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - link

  No 680 in the benchmark? I would wait for the 670

• antef - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - link

  I was excited by the Final Words until I saw the almost-7950 price and 2 year warranty. No thanks.

• Tunnah - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - link

  are the ATI cards playing the same second fiddle to Nvidia their overlords do to the intel grand-daddies ?
  
  I know it's not such a wide gulf as between intel and AMD CPUs but it just seems Radeon cards are constantly playing catch-up against the much superior counter-brand.

• kyuu - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - link

  I dunno what you're talking about. For anyone not looking to spend half a grand on a (not-in-stock) GPU, which is pretty much everyone, AMD's 7xxx-series is the clear winner at the moment.
  
  If I were in the market, I'd probably be looking at a 7850. Great performance for the price.

• CeriseCogburn - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - link

  I do know what you're talking about like the other guy does as well but won't admit it, and you're correct.

• Galidou - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - link

  Hmmm I think your perception is really flawed, the wide gulf is really between AMD and intel's cpu. Nvidia and AMD's video card are never that far. Right now, AMD gets out a new cpu and it's hardly competing against last intel gen cpus.
  
  When AMD's and Nvidia's video card get to the market, you can see them all around in graphs. Look at intel vs AMD's cpu review graphs... all the AMD's cpu on the bottom, all intel on top... Currently, AMD's cpu performance compare to old core 2 duos almost... speaking mhz for mhz.

• Galidou - Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - link

  The much superior, LOL man what you smoke is really good. You must be the hell blind... OMFG the funniest shit I ever had to read!!! Way to go blind fanboys, get some new high tech glasses so they can give your sight back to learn to read graphs... I don't know but... anyway.

• plopke - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - link

  Why does this card come with 2* pci express 6-pin power connecter?