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HIS 6850

Where there is an disagreement about performance/price of two cards it's normally either because they're very close in performance, or because it's a Nvidia vs ATI war going on. I'm happy that's the case, even with the price. I'm in with welshdragon on this, I actually *may* some day use the 3d support. I will certainly use the crossfire, that's always an option for welsh some day, I will enjoy the lower temps ( if that's true? ), and the lower power consumption. All in all, if i've lost 5-10%,... and gained a bit of it back due to the scaling... so.. 10% max lost.. pfft, I don't mind so much, i'll have 3d if I need it, new drivers coming out to maybe close the gap, hopefully a quieter set up... I'm happy.

Looking forward them arriving, they didn't come today. If only the delivery was as fast... haha
( DPD's fault, not at all OCUK )
 
Not to forget that although new cards are overall slower than old ones, but in new games and benchmarks that support tessellation and DX11 they are quicker even at stock speeds. Therefore I consider them to be as fast as the old ones to say the least.

I personally got Sapphire 6850 that I got over a month ago for £135. It runs any clocks you wish. For example 980/1185 on stock voltage. I tried to do 1002/1185 on slightly increased voltage and it runs perfectly. I'm afraid to try more, because I also got an overclocked AMD quadcore all running with a cheap 300-350w psu.
 
sand_dune said:
Not to forget that although new cards are overall slower than old ones, but in new games and benchmarks that support tessellation and DX11 they are quicker even at stock speeds. Therefore I consider them to be as fast as the old ones to say the least.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/16.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/25.html

Giving up 10% extra speed for games in general for the sake of extra 1fps in Heaven Bench, extra 0-0.3fps in Metro2033? No offense but that arguement is pretty weak...
 
Marine-RX179 said:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/16.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/25.html


Giving up 10% extra speed for games in general for the sake of extra 1fps in Heaven Bench, extra 0-0.3fps in Metro2033? No offense but that arguement is pretty weak...
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While older cards offer your mentioned 10% in older tech games it doesn't seriously matter because newer cards despite being a bit slower offer strong, sufficient and very comparable performance with high level's of fps.

But it is in new tech game engines especially that strongly DX11 based it matters which card comes on top as fps levels are a lot lower. Thanks to your link we can see 15% DX11 tessellation advantage of 6850 over 5850 in low resolution (before fillrate kicks in). If heavy tessellation mode was used the difference would be even greater.

58XX generation used to be top range cards a year ago. While they delivered good performance in DX9-10, their DX11 performance is nowhere near where it should be. Therefore 68XX generation are a lot more preferable purchases because they offer great performance in DX9-10 and are superior in DX11.

Remember 68XX are sitting next to low performance cards. You don't want to get anything slower than 68XX for this money. And in games that use new DX11 engines 58XX are well slower.
 
Had my shiney new Asus 6850 today, earlier than expected. Very happy person right now.

Just need to get a 6850 owners' thread going for peoples overclocks. Just downloaded the afterburner beta to take a look at the voltage options. Though Sapphire Trixx looks good?
 
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