Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X: VGA with Abundant Sales Package

Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X - Among the GPU chip that became the brains behind the HD series graphics card AMD 6000, Barts is a GPU chip with the largest number of variants. There are three variants of the GPU chip Barts Barts XT, Pro Barts, Barts and LE. The most striking difference between them lies in the Stream Processor. Barts XT equipped 1120 Stream Processor fruit, while the LE Barts Barts Pro and just completed 960 and 800 Stream Processors.

Graphics card is positioned as the brain makes Barts mainstream classes most often released in different flavors by graphics card manufacturer. No exception to a specialist manufacturer of AMD graphics cards named Sapphire who re-transmit them to the Mainstay products JagatReview testing lab. Having previously visited our product called the Sapphire HD 6870 Toxic, this time we re-visited Barts XT named Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X.

Nothing special on the specifications of the Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X Graphics card because it still uses specifications of the same clock with clock specifications of AMD's HD 6870 reference. Quite different from the Sapphire Toxic HD 6870 is already equipped with higher clock specification.

AMD HD 6870 Feature

Microsoft DirectX 11
AMD HD3D
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology
AMD CrossfireX Technology
AMD's PowerPlay Technology
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
Bitstreaming Audio
Universal Video Decoder 3.0
PCI Express 2.1 x16
Dual-Link DVI
HDMI 1.4a
Display Port 1.2

Product packaging design with images of birds penguins in the polar ice as the ability of HSF asserts mainstay Sapphire Vapor-X graphics card to tame the heat. Feature and an explanation can be found in both the front and rear side of the packaging. One interesting thing is on the front side of the packaging there are two stickers explaining that these products come with a game DiRT 3 along with the warranty from distributor Indonesia for two years.

Sales package that came with the graphics card consists of:

Quick Installation Guide
"Sapphire Select Club" card
Driver Disc
"Sapphire" logo sticker
2x Molex to 6-pin power converter
DVI to D-Sub converter displays
Crossfire Bridge
1.8 meters HDMI to HDMI Cable
Mini-Display Port to Full-size Display Port
Coupon game "DiRT 3"

Package sales of mainstream Graphics cards are quite full at once abundant. DiRT Game 3 could you get by following the instructions printed on the coupon.

This graphics card Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X. In accordance with a name that was carried, Barts XT graphics card is equipped HSF mainstay named Sapphire Vapor-X vapor chamber technologies are adopted. HSF Vapor-X uses a dual-slot cooling design where the design like this would make the graphics card to spend two expansion slots on the chassis and the motheboard.

AMD HD 6870 reference HSF

Full-load: 74 C (fan speed: Auto 31%)
Idle: 41 C (fan speed: Auto 22%)
Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X

Full-load: 62 C (fan speed: Auto 48%)
Idle: 34 C (fan speed: Auto 30%)

Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X can be combined with other AMD's HD 6870 to create a multi-GPU configurations, the maximum, by using two graphics cards. Configuration on AMD multi-GPU HD 6870 requires a power supply with minimum power output of 600 Watts. Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X successfully reaches clock (GPU / Memory) 975 / 4800 MHz at the time of the overclock. Clock is accomplished by using a voltage setting and the default condition keceptan fan.

Conclusion

Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X does not offer the feature of the performance given the same specification used as the reference specifications of AMD's HD 6870. But if you look at the overall performance of the Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X, this mainstream-class graphics card can be counted on to run the game smoothly even with a setting resolution of Full HD images with high-quality graphics.

Offers no features on the performance side it makes the Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X to pay the privilege of the other side. One is the performance of HSF Vapor-X. Working temperature is lower than the working temperature reference HSF HD 6870 into proof the reliability of HSF with a vapor chamber technology of this.

In addition to the performance of HSF, other features seen in the sales package. Sapphire HD 6870 Vapor-X is not half-hearted provide a complete package of sales and abundant. Basic equipment to use this graphics card such as displays and power converters are given along with an HDMI cable and bonus game "DiRT 3" belonging to a new game titles. Apparently it is quite redeemed at a price that is quite affordable especially considering the price game "DiRT 3" is still relatively high, around U.S. $ 40.

Excess

Non-reference HSF, Vapor-X.
Low working temperature.
HDMI cable.
Coupons game "DiRT 3".
Connectors and converters complete and varied displays.
Power cable converters.

Shortage

Only completed specification reference clock.