PowerColor HD6970 $119.99 FS @ Newegg ($30 rebate)

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131578

Is this a good deal? Or a waste of money, when a GF750ti sucks so much less power.

How does it compare to an R7 260X or a R9 270 (both of which only take a single 6-pin, instead of both a 6-pin and an 8-pin)?

 

[SithSolo1]

VS 260X: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1061?vs=1044
VS 265: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1061?vs=1127
VS 270X: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1061?vs=1043
VS 750 TI: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1061?vs=1130

Its close to a 265 but uses a bunch more power than all of them.

 

[nurturedhate]

It's a decent buy at at $90. It's roughly as fast as the 260x which can be had for as low as $120-130. I'd rather not have to worry about the rebate and get the better power usage/heat output/noise characteristics with a 260x/265/270/750ti.

 

[blastingcap]

R9 270/X obsoletes it with much better perf/watt; don't buy at that price unless you have pretty cheap electricity as the power differential alone is worth a small premium. And the 270's can overclock to the moon if they are anything like HD7850's.

GTX 750 Ti is even better but good luck finding it at a good price.

 

[ViRGE]

Just to add to the above, I certainly wouldn't suggest buying a 6000 series card now unless you only intend to use it for a short period of time. The 6970 doesn't support Mantle, it won't support DirectX 12, and its VLIW4 architecture clearly isn't AMD's driver optimization focus right now. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if AMD moved it to legacy status by the end of 2015 so that they can focus exclusively on GCN (the oldest of which would be turning 4 years old).

In other words, it's not a card with much of a future left before it.

 

[lopri]

There are lots of 7870's for cheap on eBay.

 

[Techhog]

R9 270/X obsoletes it with much better perf/watt; don't buy at that price unless you have pretty cheap electricity as the power differential alone is worth a small premium. And the 270's can overclock to the moon if they are anything like HD7850's.

GTX 750 Ti is even better but good luck finding it at a good price.

FYI, the 270 is an underclocked 270X/7870 with a single power connector. The 265 is the 7850 rebrand.

 

[blastingcap]

FYI, the 270 is an underclocked 270X/7870 with a single power connector. The 265 is the 7850 rebrand.

Oops, thanks, I thought the 270 was the 7850 analog, sorry. A HD7850 by any name overclocks to stock 7870 or 270X speeds, though.