Asus HD 7870 DirectCU II TOP Review

For the first time, AMD has launched their entire graphics card line-up, catering to all the segments in less than three months. Their usual strategy of waiting for at least six months before the launch the mainstream and mid-range cards didn’t happen this time and we have a sneaking suspicion that Nvidia’s Kepler launch had something to do with that. AMD first launched the HD 7900 series based on the ‘Tahiti’ core, back in January and soon followed by the HD 7700 series based on Cape Verde core in early February. Now, rounding up the Southern Islands trilogy is the HD 7800 series that AMD launched in mid-March. The two cards, HD 7870 and the HD 7850 are based on the new Pitcairn core and uses the same GCN architecture of the rest of the group.Click here for full story