Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe Summary

The Revolution 700 Deluxe is an original product indeed. It uses a unique design of the PCB, an original cooler, and supports all modern video interfaces including DisplayPort. Most importantly, Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe is quieter than the reference ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, but its cooler achieves such performance by utilizing a triple-slot form-factor. The cooler does not exhaust the hot air out of the system case, which is a downside, too. Your computer won’t like having 260 watts of heat being pumped into it. The accessories to the product are rather scanty and without any additional bonuses. It would be nice if Palit followed ASUS’ example here.

Summing it up, the Revolution 700 Deluxe is the best version of Radeon HD 4870 X2 we have ever seen, mostly thanks to its quiet cooler. However, this product is not even the fastest of single graphics cards, let alone discrete tandems like Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX or GeForce GTX 285 SLI.

If you don’t want to mess up with connecting bridges and do not plan to overclock, but you have the money and want to play comfortably at high resolutions, the Revolution 700 Deluxe will make a good buy for you. Just do not forget that its cooler blocks two neighboring expansion slots and that your system case should be ventilated well if you want to use this card.

Highs:

• High gaming performance in contemporary titles;
• Outperforms GeForce GTX 295 in a number of games;
• Works at higher GPU and memory clock speeds;
• Wide range of supported FSAA modes;
• Best Edge-detect CFAA in the industry;
• 1600 ALU and 80 texture processors;
• DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support;
• Fully-fledged hardware HD video decoding;
• High-quality HD video post-processing with scalability;
• Built-in 8-channel audio controller with HD support;
• Sound over HDMI;
• DisplayPort support;
• Low noise.

 Lows:

• Yields to Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX tandem;
• Bulky cooling system;
• Hot air isn’t ousted outside the system case;
• High power consumption and heat dissipation;
• Dependent on software CrossFireX support;
• No overclocking potential;
• Scanty accessories bundle.