WEBVTT 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:16.480 welcome to my much delayed unboxing of the Radeon HD 7870 from XFX this is 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:20.880 their core Edition card but even though it's a core or like a more basic Edition 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:26.560 card I guess compared to their Double D Card which has two cooling fans this is 00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:30.039 still a GHz Edition card so the GPU 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:32.640 itself is clocked at 1 GHz so this is 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:39.800 not based on the same GPU as the 7950 and the 7970 which um are using a larger 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:45.320 die a more complicated chip to produce this is using the pit Karen core which 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:47.160 is the same one as is in the 7870 as 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:54.879 well as the 7850 now performance- wise The 7870 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:57.239 Falls just in the range of a GTX 570 or 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:01.719 580 usually falling in between those two cards from the competition but because 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:06.439 this is manufactured on a more advanced process it is able to achieve that 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:10.720 performance with less power consumption as well as a lower price so let's see 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:14.920 what XFX includes with their particular card here a crossfire Bridge that's a 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:18.479 standard length one however if your motherboard requires a longer one they 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:23.280 usually come with them they do not disturb I'm gaming door hanger I have 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:28.320 their old one from back when XFX was NVIDIA exclusive over there on my door 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:33.799 I've also got a driver DVD download the latest off DMD website 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:36.799 limited warranty terms for full details please refer to support Central so they 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.880 actually don't include that in the documentation they just want you to go online and check it out that's sort of 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.479 smart quick install guide install guide for the drivers Pro Series power supply 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.280 brochure for their power supplies as well some other great XFX products 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:56.320 another brochure okay so that that's pretty much all the information we need 00:01:50.920 --> 00:02:00.200 let's have a look at the XFX Radeon 7870 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.920 itself now these have been in uh in in a 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:06.640 bit of a production shortfall for the most part since they were released but 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:12.560 what that should tell you about them is that they deliver a very compelling 00:02:09.160 --> 00:02:15.160 price to Performance ratio and also let 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:19.519 me just take this off here and also that uh people are demanding these cards so 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:24.080 let's have a closer look at this particular card XFX does such a good job 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:28.840 of the Aesthetics and the overall look of their gpus but let's dig a little bit 00:02:26.519 --> 00:02:33.040 deeper and find out how welld designed this is check this out so this is a very 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:37.879 beefy cooler considering that even though this is a an Enthusiast class of 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:43.400 card this is still not the highest n GPU which you find on the 7950 and the 7970 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:45.920 so they've put an aluminum uh unisync 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:49.480 across almost the entire card itself which is making contact with key 00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:53.440 components that do need to be cooled while staying well elevated over other 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:58.239 components that don't need to be cooled so you can see there's gaps in it here 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:01.680 here down in there I hope you can see that where you can see right through to 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:06.400 the PCB which is giving you air flow over the components that don't need to 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:10.280 be directly uh contacted by the unisync and uh and providing extra 00:03:08.799 --> 00:03:15.640 cooling to those that do so that's a very neat design choice I actually haven't seen that before it then uses an 00:03:13.799 --> 00:03:19.799 aluminum shroud which has like a brushed look as well as some sort of chromy 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:24.840 looking accents with their ghost thermal technology slogan on here as well as the 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:27.760 XFX logo here we've got a standard is I guess it's getting standard these days 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.159 although it's uh still not on many reference cards but an 80 mm fan in the 00:03:29.959 --> 00:03:35.840 middle we've also got four heat pipes that are carrying heat away from the GPU 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.840 itself can you see those okay away from the GPU itself you'll be able to see 00:03:37.239 --> 00:03:45.519 them better from the top and then out to two aluminum fin arrays on either side 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:49.080 of the fan itself so that is how the GPU is getting cooled they yeah like I said 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:55.799 they're so good at this check this out so we've got another metal brushed piece 00:03:51.519 --> 00:03:57.200 which is radon red is it AMD red I mean 00:03:55.799 --> 00:04:00.640 AMD's color has never been red but they're still using the ATI red on the 00:03:58.959 --> 00:04:05.519 graphics cards which looks absolutely fantastic power for this card is 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:10.879 provided by two PCIe six pin power adapters and it supports up to two-way 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:14.640 Crossfire so AMD has removed the option for multi-way Crossfire configurations 00:04:13.079 --> 00:04:20.880 from this card it makes sense because honestly if you're buying three um sort 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.400 of step down gpus you should probably just be buying one or two higher-end 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:29.000 ones instead because it's going to yield better performance due to the way that 00:04:26.520 --> 00:04:33.520 Crossfire and actually SLI technology both inherently scale now in terms of 00:04:31.080 --> 00:04:39.320 output options this is a 2 GB graphics card which means that it is more than 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:41.720 capable of driving slightly older games 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:46.120 and by older I don't mean like 3 four years old I mean like sort of last year 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:50.400 6 months ago like current generation as well as older games at extremely high 00:04:48.280 --> 00:04:53.400 resolution so having that extra Graphics memory makes all the difference in the 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:57.479 world because you have to load all the textures into the memory so even if you 00:04:55.479 --> 00:05:04.199 have a high performance card that's maybe from the competition say like a 00:05:00.039 --> 00:05:07.680 GTX 570 with only 1.2 gigs of memory the 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:10.120 7870 will absolutely rock it as soon as 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:14.919 you start to increase the resolution Beyond a single monitor so what that 00:05:12.440 --> 00:05:19.639 means is that this monitor or this card not only supports up to four displays 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:23.440 out concurrently using two dvis a DVI and an 00:05:20.840 --> 00:05:28.240 HDMI or a DVI and an HDMI and then the two mini display ports but it can 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:32.400 actually drive games as long as you're not GPU bound it has enough memory to 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.960 hold all the textures necessary that you don't end up crippling the performance 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:40.240 this is a PCIe 3.0 16x card so that 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:43.800 rounds out it's sort of current to to future generation technology so that 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:48.759 means with your new ivybridge system or your Sandy Bridge e system um you will 00:05:46.840 --> 00:05:51.960 be able to take advantage of all of that bandwidth although it's quite debatable 00:05:50.280 --> 00:05:57.479 whether or not that's going to make any performance difference whatsoever so 00:05:54.520 --> 00:06:00.880 basically good pricing good performance and really the reason I'm doing this 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:06.400 unboxing is cuz I really needed one so that I could test it against the upcoming GTX oh wait I should probably 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.560 shouldn't say so that I can release this video right away thanks for checking out 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:14.479 this video don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.479 and other computer videos