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****Official 6850/6870 Reviews thread****

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First one out, thread will be updated with reviews as they happen.

http://www.vortez.co.uk/contentteller/articles_pages/asus_eah6850_directcu_review,1.html

http://www.vortez.co.uk/contentteller/articles_pages/msi_r6870_review,1.html

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru.../37286-amd-radeon-hd-6870-hd-6850-review.html

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1022

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc...radeon-hd-6870-902549/review?src=rss&attr=all

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-review/

http://techgage.com/article/amd_radeon_hd_6870_hd_6850/

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1445/1/

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6870/

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/Radeon_HD_6850_Direct_Cu/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/amds-radeon-6870-6850-renewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/10/22/ati-radeon-hd-6870-review/1

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http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/amd_hd6870_hd6850_launch_review/

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/his_radeon_6850_6870_review/1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRicG6EpsY&feature=sub

http://www.youtube.com/user/TimeToLiveCustoms#p/u/1/UQQ-rfBRnow

http://www.youtube.com/user/TimeToLiveCustoms#p/u/2/cBAHNAbSzYE




The Radeon 6850 offers plenty of performance for today's games. We feel it's sweet spot gaming wise is for gamers with a monitor up-to roughly 1600x1200, even 1920x1200. At that resolution pretty much any game will play excellent with good options in image quality settings like AA.

The Radeon HD 6870 is as far as I am concerned, definitely the more interesting card. It does have a handful more shader processors over what we expected initially, and armed with a phat 900 MHz clock frequency this product simply makes really good sense. It will bring a lot of value to the table but will also allow you to play your games at 1920x1200 extremely well. From a price point of view that makes this product really nice. AMD needed two GeForce GTX 460 cards of their own ... and these are it. Bare in mind though, coming from an R5870 you'd be taking a small perf step down.

Time to wrap things up, the Radeon 6800 series naming wise still feels a little weird, as we all expected it to be named the 6700 series. Regardless of that, the two product launched today fit really well into the upper mid-range segment of the graphics industry. Priced right these two cards can be really interesting for the PC aficionados that like to play games on their PC without spending truckloads of money. And it is exactly that last sentiment that makes ATI AMD so very successful lately.

Guru3d
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Starting with the two 6870s being tested today we have a couple of impressive cards which share the same good level of build quality. The latest AMD cooler that they use runs quiet and the cards, at least in single GPU operation, always remain at a reasonable level. Performance of the two cards was identical and each was more than a match for the GTX 470 which dropped in price yesterday in advance of this launch. There are of course a few benefits to purchasing a Radeon over the GTX 470, support for HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2 being a couple. The ability to power more than two screens being another and of course support for 7.1 audio is another feature which will appeal to those interested in the media performance of the 6870.

Looking next to the 6850 we have two cards which provide non-reference cooling and a tweaked PCB design when compared with the AMD reference cards. In both cases the redesign lowers temperatures and noise levels which is always appreciated. The gaming performance of both cards was identical and always competitive with the GTX 460 and as with the 6870 the 6850 offers features which the GeForce currently does not, such as the ability to connect 3 screens to one card.

hardware heaven.
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Wrapping things up, we believe this will probably go down as being the most competitive card launch of the year. AMD and NVIDIA reposition themselves against each other with every launch, but by first launching the Radeon HD 6000 series against NVIDIA’s mid-to-high range GTX 460, AMD has gone head-first in to one of NVIDIA’s most prized markets, and NVIDIA is pushing right back. If you would have told us 3 months ago that we would have been able to get GTX 460 1GB performance for $180 only a couple months later, we likely would have called you mad, and yet here we are. The competitive market is alive and then some.

Ultimately this probably won’t go down in history as one of AMD’s strongest launches – there’s only so much you can do without a die shrink – but it’s still a welcome addition to the Radeon family. With a new generation of Radeon cards taking their foothold, we now can turn our eyes towards the future, and to see what AMD will be bringing us with the Radeon HD 6900 series and the Cayman GPU.

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Can't go wrong with a 5850 as when clocked it will beat out the 6870, even more so with a 470, we need some 6870 clocking results.
 
From where I'm sitting the 6870 is about on par with a 470 give or take a few FPS, but overclocking looks to be poor so the 470 will easily out perform it when clocked.
 
I'm going by OCUK and Guru results, they couldn't break 960 on the core, now that may change if we can up the volts but the 470 looks to be the better buy if you intend to overclock, no overclocking then the 6870 maybe the better buy depending on where you regard physx and 3D vision in the grand scheme of things.
 
kylew said:
Cainer supposedly has 6870s for testing.
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I'm going by OCUK and Guru results, they couldn't break 960 on the core, now that may change if we can up the volts but the 470 looks to be the better buy if you intend to overclock, no overclocking then the 6870 maybe the better buy depending on where you regard physx and 3D vision in the grand scheme of things.
 
It's simple, the 470 is basically on par with a 6870, the 470 is known to clock very well, result from the 6870 clocking look poor and there is no guarantee of volt adjustment as with some non reference 5850/70 cards. I guess we will have to see some 6870 OC v 470 OC results but needles to say a 470 overclocked to 750+ on the core nets massive gains in performance.

Mr Krugga said:
Does not compute with Guru's review? Both Dirt 2 and Metro 2033 work better on 6870.
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Hardly tessellation heavy titles, I guess the 6870's massive 900 core helps it out in these titles. See the heaven benchmarks for tessellation performance, it's not much better than 5850 performance from the results I've seen.
 
Mr Krugga said:
The only problem with Heaven is not being a game. Radeons don't do well in Folding either. It doesn't make them bad video cards though.
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Of course it does not make them bad. Interesting quote from the overclocking results from Guru you posted, I support this view.

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