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AMD Radeon HD 6670 Review Roundup - GIGABYTE & Sapphire

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2011-11-24 23:30:00.0


Futurelooks, HardwarHeaven, and PureOverclock have reviewed three mainstream Radeon HD 6670 graphics cards from GIGABYTE and Sapphire.

Let's see what they had to say:

  • Futurelooks: GIGABYTE Radeon HD 6670 OC 1GB Graphics Card Review:

    "Even though the GIGABYTE HD 6670 OC is very impressive doing what it was built to do, let’s not kid ourselves here. When pushing for the best graphics in DX11 with advanced shadows and Tessellation, the GIGABYTE HD 6670 OC will not cut it. Even with CrossfireX, you are likely not to get a full DX11 title to play well. The money that would need to be spent on a good CPU cooler to overclock both the APU and the HD 6670 would be better spent on a higher end card. However, the GIGABYTE HD 6670 OC is the most powerful GPU that supports Dual Graphics for CrossfireX on the A75 platform and an APU."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • HardwarHeaven: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Low Profile Graphics Card Review:

    "As we noted earlier in the review Sapphire have identified a gap in the market and created the low profile 6670 with single slot cooler to target consumers with this requirement. For that reason the card scores well on the design front, it fits that requirement well. The build quality is also decent with a nice blue PCB and solid cooler that doesn't feel flimsy despite the low pricing of the card.

    In terms of performance the card does very well for its price bracket. We saw a number of recent games play well at 1920x1080 with maximum detail and even in the ultra demanding Battlefield 3 medium detail was achievable. Of course the alternative would have been to keep the detail level at High/Ultra and drop the resolution ot 1280x720 which would be ideal on a HDTV."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • PureOverclock: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 1GB Single Slot Graphics Card Review:
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    "The Sapphire Radeon 6670 single slot card is certainly a budget product, geared to consumers who occasionally do some light gaming. It's not a graphics workhorse by any stretch. Further, it is designed to be frugal in terms of power consumption, not requiring any separate PCI-E connector, but rather instead drawing power directly through the motherboard itself. It is a low profile, low power card that is a good upgrade option for people with an older system that want to easily improve their graphics performance.

    In terms of performance, gaming at 1280 resolution will produce good results in modern games. Moving up to 1680 is a stretch unless you're prepared to drop the image quality settings and live with lower framerates as well. Antialiasing is the enemy of this card, it's simply not designed to handle the rigor of real gaming. That said, you can get some respectable performance if you have a modest budget."


    Click here to read the full review.

There's nothing too exhilarating about these cards, but those single-slot variants might be worth looking at for those with space constraints.

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