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Now that we have gone over the six-display Eyefinity experience, let's now take a look at the HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 video card itself.
From outward appearances, the Eyefinity 6 has little to differentiate itself from its very close relative, the regular HD 5870. If it wasn't for the six Mini DisplayPort video ports on the card's bracket, you'd have a tough time telling the Eyefinity 6 from a regular HD 5870.
The HD 5870's are large cards, coming in at about 11", with a double slot cooler. As video cards go, there are not that many cards that beat outsize the HD 5870. Just from picking up the video card, you can can get a sense of how much metal is needed to keep things cool: four copper heat pipes connect to aluminum heat fins that run about half the length of the card.
The fan here is the same used in the standard HD 5870: it is makes about an average amount of noise. In normal operation you probably will not notice it that much.
As for the specifications of the HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, they are the same as the regular HD 5870, with one important difference: the Eyefinity 6 has 2GB of memory. This doubling of the memory is required for the extreme resolutions you are going to be using your HD 5870 at.
Beyond describing our gaming experiences with the Eyefinity 6, we will also now benchmark the video card, to see if this 2GB of memory improves performance using only one display.
| GTX 285 | GTS 250 | GT 240 | HD 5670 | HD 4850 | HD 5770 | HD 5870 | HD 5850 | HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 | |
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Processing Cores |
240 | 128 | 96 | 400 | 800 | 800 | 1600 | 1440 | 1600 |
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Core Clock |
648 | 738 | 550 | 775 | 625 | 850 | 850 | 725 | 850 |
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Shader Clock |
1476 | 1836 | 1360 | 775 | 625 | 850 | 850 | 725 | 850 |
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Memory Clock (effective) |
2484 | 2200 | 3400 | 4000 | 1986 | 4800 | 4800 | 4000 | 4800 |
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Memory Interface |
512 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
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Memory Type |
1024MB GDDR3 |
512MB GDDR3 |
512MB GDDR5 | 512MB GDDR5 | 512MB GDDR3 | 512MB GDDR4 | 1024MB GDDR5 | 1024MB GDDR5 | 2048MB GDDR5 |
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Fabrication Process |
55nm | 55nm | 40nm | 40nm | 55nm | 40nm | 40nm | 40nm | 40nm |
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also...no overclocking again?
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042803&p_id=5714&seq=1&format=2
And they have mini displayport to DVI adapters for only $8.55:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5106&seq=1&format=2
I also didn't overclock it because it would overclock the same as other HD 5870's , so did not thing it was important. Perhaps I should of noted that.
bomber- > Thanks for pointing those out. Generally speaking, the adapters are 20 bucks, it is great to be able to search around and find them cheaper. 5 bucks is a much more reasonable price.