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6850 help

Schoieuk

Schoieuk

Schoieuk

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Hey guys i recently checked back on OCUK to see new products after about 3 months since my last check.. noticed the 6850, 6870 etc.

How do these compare to the 5850 and 5870?

My main reason for concern is the price as they seem a lot cheaper than the previous 5000 range of cards and they also have lower memory clock speed, core processors etc.

Any help on how they compare is greatly appreciated.
 
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Schoieuk said:
Hey guys i recently checked back on OCUK to see new products after about 3 months since my last check.. noticed the 6850, 6870 etc.

How do these compare to the 5850 and 5870?

My main reason for concern is the price as they seem a lot cheaper than the previous 5000 range of cards and they also have lower memory clock speed, core processors etc.

Any help on how they compare is greatly appreciated.
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Good thing that you asked...lots of people have been complaining about AMD's misleading labeling. But I'll spare you the drama and keep the story short- 6850 and 6870 are this gen's mid-range, speed wise it is 6850<5850<6870<5870. The 6850 and 6870 pit against GTX460 1GB and GTX470. But one of the merit of the 6850/6870 is that their crossfire scaling is very well...if you crossfire a pair of them, you might get the same, if not higher performance than 5850/5870 crossfire.

6950 and the 6970 would be the high-end this gen, which should be out in November, and the 6990 would be the rumoured dual-GPU card for this gen...which two GPUs, we don't know yet.
 
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