gfx upgrade

[Dave0w]

wanting to spend about £100 on a new grx card.
right now am running GTX260 so it has to be better

also i want a card that i can crossfire or sli if i feel i need a little more power over time

other spec's are
CPU: Phenom 1090T @ 4gb
RAM: 8gb of 1600mhz Tactical Tracer
MOBO: MSI Fuzion 870A {should run mode A and N so can run sli or crossfire}

 

[stulid]

6850 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-269-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

And this is identical - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-178-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

 

[cmndr_andi]

Hi there,

For £100 the card to have is the HD 6850.

Here is a performance comparison with the GTX 260.

This card will support Crossfire with another HD 6800 series card.

Edit: Beaten by stulid

 

[Dave0w]

6850 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-269-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

And this is identical - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-178-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Memory Bandwidth: ?

 

[stulid]

Memory Bandwidth: ?

They are both this card here - http://uk.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/EAH6850_DC2DIS1GD5V2/

 

[cmndr_andi]

+1 Both cards with have a 256 bit memory bus.

As for actual bandwidth, the ASUS card has a standard memory clock of 1GHz (4GHz effective) so it's memory bandwidth is 128GB/s, for reference.

I guess OCUK didn't complete the product description - so just left the "?" there.

 

[bru]

Personally I would find another tenner and go for one of these for £110 on this week only

At those clocks it is just a smidgen faster than a 560

6850 vrs 560

 

[cmndr_andi]

They are pretty good cards, but them only having a 192 bit memory bus (standard GTX 460 1GB cards have a 256 bit memory bus) does worry me a bit - especially when a HD 6850 basically matches the performance of a standard GTX 460 1GB.