 As you may have guessed based on the fact that I'm holding a Measuring tape we are going to be doing a length comparison with the new 6870 against a couple of the last generation high-end cards with which it will either compete or Replace on the market, so let's have a look let's start with the 6870 so we're measuring right from the back of the PCI bracket and because cameraman's measuring tape is Inconveniently in inches we're going to have to go ahead and give the results in inches So if you want to come have a look over here right here from the top cameraman This is a nine and just a little bit over three-quarters of an inch, so it's like nine and Seven eighths of an inch long and remember it makes a difference whether the PCI Express Power connectors are on the back of the card or the top because if you've got a card that's a nine and Seven eighths of an inch long, but it has a PCI Express connector hanging out the back of it That means you got to account for that plug so this one is Going to fit as long as you have nine and seven eighths inches in your case so next up we have Nvidia's Ruler of the roost and this one is ten and a half inches so the new 6870 which I don't actually know the performance of yet will compare at least in length quite favorably to the GTX 480 480 GTX that is and then AMD's 5870 is 11 inches long so the 6870 is a little bit shorter than its previous generation Similarly named cousins, so thank you for checking out my length comparison with the 6870 against the GTX 480 as well as the HD 5870