Introducing Axle’s HD 6870
We would like to introduce Axle’s HD 6870 which is AMD’s new upper-midrange class of video card. It is the replacement for AMD’s HD 5800 series with a smaller die and the HD 6870’s performance is similar to HD 5850 but at a much lower price. AMD has released its 2nd generation DX11 GPU based on its Cypress architecture which has now been refined into the ‘Barts’ codenamed GPU which we covered in AMD’s introductory HD 6000 series launch here.
Axle is big in Asia and have recently started expanding their business into North America. They are a certified Nvidia and AMD Graphics partner who has also introduced their own version of a HD 6870 based on the reference version.
Their press release describes the HD 6870 pretty well:
Here are the Axle HD 6870 specifications and features:
We are going to continue our evaluation of Axle video cards; our next scheduled review is of the Axle GT 430, focusing especially on comparisons to integrated graphics and its use as a HTPC video card in a future article.
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