Purchases from these Sellers are generally covered under our Newegg Marketplace Guarantee. Sold and Shipped by Newegg. PowerColor prepping Radeon HD Eyefinity 6 Edition. Other than that it performs great and places itself at the top together with the other HD cards. High4xAA16xAFWater: As expected, we get two DVI-ports one DVI-I and one DVI-Dan HDMI-port and two mini-DisplayPorts.
How does it compare to the regular HD and the GTX? Read the review to find out. INTRODUCTION With the release of the HD and HD, it is easy to forget the mid-range GPUs that AMD released earlier in October The version we are reviewing also comes with Call of Duty: The main feature is the custom cooler that the card uses, which in turn allows PowerColor tofactory overclock the card from MHz to MHz.
At the bottom are 44 extremely thin cooling fins that provide the great dissipation surface area. We were pleased to see that PowerColor includes a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter. This was missing on the HIS HD The card comes in a nice box that vividly depicts all the cool features of the card.
More importantly, the box does a good job protecting the card during transit. The special cooler is the most prominent feature of the card and looks quite cool. Under the plastic shell we can spot the copper heat-pipes. As expected, we get two DVI-ports one DVI-I and one DVI-Dan HDMI-port and two mini-DisplayPorts.
The card needs power from two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The plastic cover sits very close to the connectors and we had to bend it away a bit to get the cables to lock into the connectors. PowerColor includes the usual DVI to VGA-adapter and CrossfireX-bridge. They also include a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter which adds value as most monitors still seem to use regular DisplayPort. It is nice to get the Call of Duty: The engine features DirectX 11, hardware tessellation, DirectCompute, and Shader Model 5.
All of these new technologies, combined with the ability to run each card through the same exact test, means that this benchmark is an essential component of our arsenal. Other than that it performs great and places itself at the top together with the other HD cards. It was one of the most anticipated titles of HighShadow Qual: High4xAA16xAFWater: Very HighObjects: Very HighDecals: OffHig-res shadows: HighPoint Light Spec: Just Cause 2 is yet another game where AMD GPUs run very well.
Even though the card is factory overclocked, we of course want to see if we can get a bit more out of it. We used the built-in overdrive feature in Catalyst and let it find a stable overclock. We then ran both Furmark and 3DMark Vantage several times to verify that the overclock was stable.
We were hoping to reach 1 GHz on the GPU but had to dial back to MHz to get an overclock that was stable in all applications. We managed to increase the memory speed to MHz from MHz. We measured the power consumption at the wall. This includes the whole system except the monitor. While the PowerColor HD drew just as much power as the other cards when idling; it drew about 25W more power when running at full speed, which may be caused by the factory overclocking. As PowerColor promises a cooler experience with this card compared to the stock cooler, we compared it to both a reference HD and the HIS HD which also uses the stock fan.
We ran all cards with FurMark for 30 minutes and measured the maximum temperature recorded during the run. This surprised us a lot. We reran the test several times just to confirm the validity of our results. While the fan doesnt seem to cool as well as PowerColor claims, it does run much more quietly.
We measured the noise level at 50 cm from the back of the system with a noise meter. The result was interesting. The sound is much softer and not especially annoying. The GPU itself is nice and is full of cool features that we like DX11, Eyefinity, support for multiple connections, HD-sound support.
We liked that this card is factory overclocked, as we know most users do not want to mess with overclocking themselves, even if AMD simplifies it with OverDrive; the fact that there is even more headroom is a nice bonus. However, we were dissatisfied by the small performance increase over a regular HD The card can perform better than a stock card, but users should not expect it to bring gaming to a new level just because of the extra MHz. We were disappointed with the cooling, as this is one of the advertised features of the card.
We are not sure if we got a faulty sample, but the card runs notably hotter than our HIS HD which uses the stock cooler. However, though the fan spun up more compared to the HIS HD, this card still was much quieter.
The apparent contradiction is puzzling to us: However, we accept the results as they are. The main negative, though, is the price. It also costs a bit more than a GTX, which should perform on a similar level. What users really get for that extra cash is a relatively modern game, slightly better performance over a regular HD and a cooler that does not necessarily cool the card better, but at least lets it run quieter than the regular HDcards.
It is a bit more expensive than a regular HD, but that is made up for by the factory overclocking, the bundle game and the quieter operation of the fan. It earns the Bjorn3D Bronze Bear Award. Tags AMD ATI DX11 eyefinity Nvidia powercolor videocard. Corsair K68 Ultra-Durable Mechanical Keyboard Review Hello PC Enthusiasts. For this review, we will be …. Sunday23 July About Us Privacy Policy Advertise at Bjorn3D. Breaking News PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 8GB GDDR5 Review Corsair K68 Ultra-Durable Mechanical Keyboard Review Streacom FC8 Alpha mini-ITX chassis ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero Motherboard Review XFX RX 4GB Heatsink Edition Review Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX OC Edition 8GB 11Gbps Video Card Review Seagate Ironwolf: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 6 Review Corsair Glaive RGB Gaming Mouse Review jQuery document.
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