Following on from our recent article on AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB edition, today we'll take a look at Sapphire's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB card. In this article, we'll take a second look at some of the Eyefinity 6 features, then pair it up with our other 5870 E6 card for some Crossfire 2GB action.  Join us as we evaluate Sapphire's version of ATI's flagship single GPU product.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6

Product Highlights

• $499 MSRP

• 40nm Cypress Core / 2.15Bn Transistors

• DirectX 11 / Open GL 4.0 / OpenCL 1.0

• 850Mhz Core with 1600 Stream Processors

• 2.72 TFLOPS Compute Performance

• 2GB GDDR5 at 1200MHz (4.8Gbps)

• 8pin PCIe + 6pin PCIe power connectors

• Six mini-DisplayPort outputs (five passive adapters included)

• 34W idle / 228W load power consumption

Straddling the line between Enthusiast and Ultra Enthusiast, the ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB edition has several strengths. Primarily the extra gigabyte of GDDR 5, but also the extra power - unlike the reference ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB, the Eyefinity 6 2GB edition cards sport an 8-pin and a 6-pin PCIe power connector. Will this benefit overclockers and high dollar enthusiasts? Let's take a look.