Technical data / specifications

As you might expect the ASUS HD 7870 DirectCU II Top is everything but standard. First of all core clock speeds have been increased from 1'000 MHz to 1'100 MHz and the memory has also been overclocked but not that much - from 1'200 MHz to 1'250 MHz in fact. For factory overclocked cards ASUS uses "Top" in the name. Furthermore ASUS equipped this card with its own DirectCUII cooler. In this case they chose to go for the dual slot version. This cooler features two 80 millimeter fans as well as three heatpipes. Each of which has a diameter of six millimeters. In 2D mode the card is almost inaudible and under load it still is much quieter than AMDs reference design.

Meanwhile this time for the HD 7870 DirectCU II Top, ASUS didn't change the the power design nor even the PCB like they usually always do with this DirectCUII models. In this case this card features the reference card PCB from AMD followinf the axact same design, nothing as been changed.