Installation

Installing the card was a breeze. Since the PCI-e power connectors are at the top of the card you do not have to worry about them adding extra length.

Test Setup

To test the HIS Radeon 7870, we used a test rig based on the above components. . Here are some of the benchmark software which we'll be using:

• GPU-Z
• AIDA64
  
• 3D Mark Vantage
• Unigine Heaven (DX11)
• Far Cry 2 (DX10)
  
• Battlefield 3 (DX11)
  
• Stalker: Call of Pripyat (DX 11)
• Street Fighter IV (DX 9)
  

AMD Catalyst Drivers

All tests were run using the Windows 7 64-bit Catalyst 12.4 drivers