so today I'll be doing an unboxing or rather an unbagging of a product that is
available at retail but not in this particular form so this is the okay you
know what I'm not going to tell you what it is and oh hold on I need to get my
knife here because uh you know this knife has proven very popular with my
viewers I'm going to break the elastic there yeah there we go we'll use that as
a size size comparison against the uh the video card so based on the accessory
the one accessory that came with this sample card I'm going to let our viewers
guess so pause the video and see if you can guess what card this is so it
includes six mini DisplayPort to
DisplayPort adapters okay so go ahead
pause the video put down a comment and guess anyway so for those who guessed or
for those who haven't guessed yes this is the ATI Radeon
hd5870 ifinity 6 Edition so this this has six
display outputs and other than that it
is pretty much a plain Radeon 5870 but a
couple of things first of all because it has six mini display ports and you can
actually plug them in just like that okay it also has a fulllength exhaust
slot unlike the regular 5870 which is only able to exhaust off about a quarter
of the PCI back plate now another advantage that it has is that it has 2
gigs of video RAM versus the only 1 gig
of video RAM on the regular 5870 other
than that it's pretty similar so you can see we've got our back plate here and
we've got a full shroud on the back that's cooling um that's cooling the
back of the video card we've got a regular PCI Express 16x interface up at
the top we will find two Crossfire Bridge uh fingers but you know what this
is something that there's a lot of misconceptions about and I thought I'd just clear this up a lot of people think
you have to to plug two Bridges if you've only got two cards but actually
that can degrade performance rather than helping performance it's actually just
fine to run only a single bridge between your two cards so there you go Crossfire
lesson of the day so around the front of the card we find the ATI Radeon branding
and here's another big difference is that this card uses a six pin and an 8
Pin PCI Express power connector so because it's got those uh that extra RAM
that's the only real spec difference and it needs a little bit more power
okay so we'll go around to the Batmobile esque shape of the cooler because this
is a sample card and not actually a retail card there's only the ATI
branding on it so there's no uh no partner branding like a sapphire
powercolor XFX nothing like that around
the bottom of the card we find nothing all that exceptional now I just want to
talk a little bit about the infinity 6 card and the technology that goes behind
it so you can see that has gone and included six mini DisplayPort to
DisplayPort adapters and while I'm talking I'm just going to plug these in
so that you can get the full impact of all the displays you can hook up to this
card I mean even a couple years ago the idea of having a consumer level gaming
card that could output three displays was crazy and now we have one that can
output to six displays now you you might
go oh well I don't have a DisplayPort Monitor and that may be true but the
reality is once you've gone out to DisplayPort you can actually take two
of these and you can adapt them to either HDMI or DVI so you could run six
monitors off of this card with two DVI
adapters and then four DisplayPort monitors so that would give you a way to
do that now iin 6 you can make the argument again that a 5870 isn't really
powerful enough to drive six displays at 2560 x600 resolution that would probably
be true but what you can do is you can still run six displays out in crossfire
mode with another ifinity 6 Edition card so that means that you can actually run
six displays off two cards and get the power of both cards running behind it I
don't believe it this time you can Crossfire a 5870 ifinity 6 with a
regular 5870 and the reason for that is the different video memory although they
may update that in the future so thank you for checking out my unboxing and
quick product Showcase of the ATI radio ion 5870 ifinity
6 yeah the cameraman reminded me when I said thank you for watching my video
blog or whatever it is I said that uh I never actually did the size comparison
that I promised so here it is plugged into a really old fail motherboard but
it is a standard ATX board so you can see that it does stretch about an inch
past the edge of the board okay so you can kind of look at that from the bottom
see how far it stretches out you can see what it looks like installed in the
motherboard so it takes up both the PCI Express slot it's plugged into as well
as the next over slot and then here it
is for size comparison against the cameraman's iPhone because we so
frequently do that you can see that it is much smaller than an or much smaller
much bigger than an iPhone there you go as helpful as that may be and then last
but not least comparison is against the length of the sword that I have begun
using for my unboxings so there that is it that is the scale of the iin 6 5870 2
gig graphics card