as you may have guessed based on the fact that I'm holding a measuring tape
we are going to be doing a length comparison with the new 6870 against a
couple of the last generation high-end cards with which it will either compete
or uh replace on the market so let's have a look let's start with the 6870 so
we're measuring right from the back of the PCI bracket and because cameraman's
measuring tape is inconveniently in inches we're going to have to go ahead
and give the results in inches so if you want to come have a look over here right
here from the top cameraman this is a nine and just a little bit over 3/4 of
an inch so it's like 9 and uh 7/8 of an
inch long and remember it makes a
difference whether the PCI Express power connectors are on the back of the card
or the top because if you got a card that's uh 9 and 78 of an inch long but
it has a PCI Express connector hanging out the back of it that means you got
account for that plug so this one is going to fit as long as you have 9 and
78 in in your case so next up we have
NVIDIA's ruler of the roost and this one
is 102 in so the new 6870 which I don't
actually know the performance of yet will uh compare at least in length quite
favorably to the GTX 480 480 GTX that is
and then AMD's 5870 is 11 in Long so the
6870 is a little bit shorter than its
previous generation similarly named
cousins so thank you for checking out my length comparison with the 6870 against
the GTX 480 as well as the HD 5870