14 DAY TRIAL // With the HD 6000 series of AMD video cards out, it is no surprise that its Partners would keep tweaking the design, and HIS has just unveiled its latest such board, the so-called Radeon HD 6870 Turbo.
The HD 6000 series of video cards is the latest line of DirectX 11-capable video boards to come out of AMD's labs.
Advanced Micro Devices created the HD 6870 and HD 6850 for the mainstream market, mostly its higher level that is, the segment known as the performance market.
Of course, even with their capabilities, the company's partners still felt inclined towards factory overclocking.
This has already led to the appearance of a variety of custom-cooled boards, not just HD 6870 but also HD 6850 iterations.
More recently, HIS (Hightech Information System) decided to release what it named the Radeon HD 6870 Turbo.
This video controller has significantly higher clocks that the original graphics card even without featuring a different cooler.
The 40nm-based Barts graphics processing unit runs at 920 MHz instead of 900 MHz, while the 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM operates at 4,480 MHz instead of 4,200 MHz.
The rest of the feature set includes 1,120 stream processors, a memory interface of 256 bits, multiple video outputs (dual-DVI, HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2) and the various technologies all of AMD's cards have.
That means that the Radeon HD 6870 Turbo, in addition to the obvious DirectX 11 support, comes with Eyefinity and CrossFireX, for setting up multi-monitor and multi-GPU configurations, respectively.
Finally, the HD3D technology enables, with the aid of HD3D glasses, Stereo 3D gaming, as well as Blu-ray 3D playback.
All in all, this HIS HD 6870 Turbo is the reference card, only with better clocks. It is the third Barts-based board that HIS made so far and can be pre-ordered for 256 Euro.