"The HD6950 was not expected as this performance range.The HD6950 is only 11% less performant and can reach the HD6970 performance level with a high overclocking...The HD6950 kept the 2GB GDDR5 and is quite low power consumption." Comptoir-Hardware.com "Gold Award"

"The benchmarks gave some clear indictations of the potential this card has, and with room for overclocking, it could be a serious contender when compared to the GTX 570 and even the 580 from Nvidia, especially when we look at the likes of 3DMark 11. Other benchmarks gave very small differences between the power-mad GTX 580 and 6950, and when you look at the price, you’d be stupid not to get a 6950." eTeknix "Gold Award"

"the Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 displayed good thermal characteristics, running moderately cool for cards for their calibre...the Radeon HD 6970 should really have been faster than the GeForce GTX 570." - Hardwarezone "7.5/10"

"Radeon HD 6950 and all things considered, this makes the Radeon HD 6950 a great card for under US$300." - Hardwarezone "8/10"

"the cheapest available on the market, the HD 6850 card" - NVISION "Recommedntation Product"

"The HD6970 already offer 15% performance increase compare to the HD5870 and may offer more when the new architecture will be better used by the drivers...The new architecture is much better in DirectX 11 video games as it have a better management of the tessellation... this is a good option against GTX 570 however the HD6970 suffer the competitoon of the HD6950 that is announced 60€ less expensive and only 11% less performant."- Comptoir-Hardware.com "Sliver Award"

"For HIS HD 6870 1GB GDDR5, this also forces parties to available at all offline game today.  DX11 Tessellation was developed stronger than ever obvious." - Vmodtech "Best Performance" & "Best Innovation"

“The HIS HD 6870 Turbo has a clear user in mind; it’s for someone that wants a little more performance for a little more price. It’s also clearly aimed at users who don’t want to overclock because they don’t know how to or simply can’t be bothered.”- Tweaktown "Editior's Choice"

"To be fair, the HIS Turbo Edition has proven to be the best HD6870 we have tested yet, not because of the relatively minor ‘out of the box’ overclocks, but because we noticed a higher overclocking threshold, almost achieving 1ghz on the core. HIS HD6870 Turbo is good bet if you want kick ass gaming performance at high resolutions." KitGuru "Must Have Award"

"HIS HD 6870 Turbo 1GB GDDR5 Video Card might be considered mid-range, but it performs extremely well and is loaded with features. If you don't want to break the bank, but need an amazing video card, this is it. No matter if it's games, movies or other multi-display applications, this video card rocks." 3D GameMan "100% KickAss"

"Definitely HIS 6870 is the more interesting card. It does have a handful more shader processors over what we expected initially, and armed with a phat 900 MHz clock frequency this product simply makes really good sense." Guru3D "Recommended Product"

"Offering highly accurate performance for this price, the HD 6870 is an interesting place in the nomenclature of AMD coming to harm the GTX 460 1GB and nearly matching the GTX 470." - Centrale 3D "Gold Award"

"HIS HD 6870 Turbo is as solid as any other HD 6870 card on the market today, which means it comes at a good price/performance ratio, offers low power consumption and excellent connectivity features." - TechpowerUp "Recommended Award"

"All the cards were quiet when idle and audible rather than loud when working hard .We' d therefore optfortheHIS HD 68701GB ,asit's the cheapest ."- CustomPC "Highest scores"

"Across the benchmarks the jump in performance is around ten per cent... We’d certainly plump for the HD 6870 1GB over the GTX 470 1,280MB despite the latter's slightly superior performance, thanks in majority to the HD 6870 1GB’s lower power consumption and un-intrusive non-nuclear cooler" - Bit-Tech.net "Recommended Product"

"The HIS HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 Video Card is one of the best bang for the buck video cards out there. While it doesn't scream performance it is affordable and is jam packed full of features. Get a couple of these in a Crossfire setup and you're rockin'" - 3D Gameman "Gameman's Choice"

"Performance wise, the HIS Radeon 6870 Turbo easily beat the NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB, in many games it was enough of a difference to be noticeable. This is the first overclocked out-of-the-box 6870and it seems to be at a fair price/performance." - Viperlair "Recommended Product"

"The performance of the card is really good at this price point, and sits in the lower mid-range very well. HIS Radeon 6850 1GB either matched or beat our comparison card, I think they are being a little conservative here, or perhaps that's the point. The 6850 will perform better than or at least the same as a more expensive GTX 460 1GB." - Viperlair "Recommended Product"

"The Radeon HD 6870 are a good buy at a reasonable price, although depending on the trading day that we consulted, being new to the market, we see a very large price fluctuations in general prices we are seeing quite close to those marked by AMD" - Noticias3D "Highest Price/Performance Mark"

“The AMD Radeon HD 6870 … positioned … against the GeForce GTX 460 1GB … in our testing it blew it away. The Radeon HD 6870 comes in-between the 5850 and 5870 in performance, but the kicker is that it is much cheaper, runs cooler, and uses less power doing it. We think it is most impressive that the Radeon HD 6870 is using 25% less silicon, less transistors, lower power and temperatures compared to Radeon HD 5850, yet providing slightly faster performance! The 6800 series video cards are the fastest power friendly video cards we’ve ever seen and this is the most performance we've ever seen in this power envelope. AMD is now offering the highest performance ever seen at lower price points. In regards to the 6870, if you currently own a GTX 460 1GB then the 6870 is a major upgrade in performance. Any way you slice it, the current Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 offerings are stellar deals. Better performance, lower prices, lower power, lower temps, and just a really good gameplay experience! The Radeon HD 6850 is the best sub-$200 performance we’ve ever seen, and the lowest power envelope we’ve ever seen it at.” HardOCP "Gold Award"