Powercolor released a new GPU in their Devil lineup, the Powercolor Devil HD7870. The Powercolor Devil HD7870 features a higher clock, a better PCB, and a more efficient cooling solution over the AMD HD7870 reference card.
The Powercolor Devil HD7870 increases reference performance by operating at 1100Mhz core clock and 1250Mhz memory clock. Offering much more improvement over the reference 1000Mhz core clock and 1200Mhz memory clock. This card will contain 2GB of DDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface.
The Powercolor Devil HD7870 comes with an exclusive Platinum Power Kit, offering 7+1+1 phases, digital PWM, “super” capacitors, which is built to increase the overall stability and reliability of power distribution to the GPU. To keep things cool, the Powercolor Devil HD7870 is equipped with a three fan cooling solution, four heat pipes, and a large surface aluminum cooling fin to make this card 25% cooler and 18% quieter than the AMD reference HD7870.
Still no word from Powercolor on the Devil HD7870’s price or release date. However to keep things competitive this card would really need to be a steal. With the already cheaper prices on the HD7850 through the HD7950, the Devil HD7870 will really have to find that magic price to benefit both them and consumers like ourselves. Either way, Powercolor really managed to “tune the engine” on this card, and assuming their claims of being 25% cooler and 18% quieter are accurate, this card sounds like a real winner for those in the market for a HD7870.
Check out the Powercolor website for the Devil HD7870 hardware specs.
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