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Mit der Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate bringt der seit Juni 2001 weltweit größte Hersteller von ATI/AMD basierenden Grafiklösungen eine Grafikkarte auf den Markt, welche auf AMDs aktuellen Low-Budget-Chip "Turks" setzt. Mit der Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate bleibt Sapphire der eigenen Linie treu - die Ultimate-Serie stand schon immer für passive und damit lautlose Kühllösung. Dank der geringen Abwärme bei gleichzeitig annehmbarer Leistung sowie des kurzen PCBs sind die auf Turks basierenden Grafikkarten primär für den Einsatz in einem HTPC gedacht. In diesem Artikel wollen wir herausfinden, wie sich die Grafikkarte im Vergleich mit anderen Karten schlägt und ob sie hält was seitens des Herstellers suggeriert wird - ein würdiger Nachfolger der Radeon 5670.
The general rule of thumb when it comes to models like the HD 6670 is that we look at one or two at launch and then we don't worry about it. These low to mid-range models from both NVIDIA and AMD are indeed important, but for the most part companies don't tend to mix it up too much.
Graphic cards
This years video card industry has brought a plethora of upgrades to the market, technologies such as multi-monitor solutions and 3D are some of the tops that come to mind. The video card company that takes it a step further and comes up with their own niche, creates technologies that no other manufacturer has are the ones that going to succeed. Sapphire has proven themselves one of these innovative manufacturers time and time again, first with vapor-X cooling, next making Eyefinity out of the box solutions with their FleX technology.
If you are looking for a video card to power your new HTPC project, or if you are looking for an upgrade to your existing setup that uses integrated video, the Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 LP card is a fairly good choice. If you are looking for a card like this that has to fit a low profile case, this is pretty much your only choice!
Today we have two of the new value orientated Radeons on our test bench, the Sapphire 6570 and 6670. These cards are more than just rebranded reference designs thanks to their Arctic Cooling coolers and redesigned PCB's so let's take a look at how they perform in some of the most popular games around, as well as GPU computing and media related tasks.
I hate these low to mid-range cards; it's nothing against them directly, but they're always just so slow. Sure, they might be great for the price etc. - but testing them is still an absolute pain as they're always so much slower than the stuff I'm used to testing. The whole situation is made only worse by AMD releasing three models today, albeit we're only looking at the two higher end ones of these three new models. The good news for me is that we tend to only ever look at one or two of these new models and then continue looking at the fun stuff and what people wish they could afford, but can't.
Graphic cards
Picking a video card in today's age is a tough decision, amongst all the choices of not only manufacturers, but also models. Sapphire has proven to fellow reviewers and me to be a name that can be not only be trusted in terms of support and customer service, but depended upon when it comes the newest technology available.
Graphic cards
2011 has been a big year for gaming with the releases of Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3 and Skyrim to name but a few and getting good quality graphics comes with a price and you can always go one better in the hope of getting the best possible graphics.
AMD and their partners believe in getting the best possible gaming experience through use of Eyefinity, but this can also come at a cost when you start to break it down. You'll first and foremost, need a card that is capable, three or more monitors and the technology behind it all.
Many cards on the market have two DVI ports, a HDMI and two DisplayPort connectors, which depending on your configuration, could lead to you purchasing some expensive monitors, or some DisplayPort hubs which are quite pricey in their own right. The other option involves purchasing active dongles, but at around £50 a pop, this can also work out costly.
Sapphire started to address this problem by introducing their FleX range of cards, which do the job aboard the card so you don't have to shell out extra cash. FleX allows you to run three monitors running on DVI independently, without the need for any high priced extras or dongles.
Sapphire have now decided to bring their FleX technology to the Radeon HD 6450 to offer consumers a low cost Eyefinity solution for users on a budget. Whilst it's not the fastest card on the market, it will allow you to immerse yourself into the game further, so let's take a look to see what it's all about.
I just want to say before I get started that what we're doing today isn't really practical in any sense of the word, except for the fact that it can be done. Before we really get into it, let's just put into perspective what this is going to cost to set up. With the HD 5970 TOXIC being rumored at $999 U.S. and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 480 we're using today costing about $500 U.S. - you're talking about a $1500 U.S. video card setup alone.
Testing a video card isn't a 5 minute job. To be honest, it's not even a 5 hour job or a 1 day job. From the minute a video card arrives till the moment I can send it off to my editor, many, many hours are put into the review; everything from photography to benchmarking.
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