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

[An Exception]

At less than £178 the 6870 is a steal!

 

[bigjimmyauk]

So is there any word on increased tessellation from either the 68**'s or the 69**'s

 

[muppet]

just googled still cant see any reviews

 

[Skyrocket]

just googled still cant see any reviews

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...ru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-review/1

here mate just change 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 as you flick the pages.

 

[An Exception]

Of the cases where it beats it except for 1-2 cases mostly it beats it by less than 4%, granted pre-release drivers - and thats only from a small number of benchmarks so far. If you look at other sources than guru3d you see similiar cases where the GTX470 is marginally ahead.

Don't under-estimate the GTX470 OCing potential either.

255mm2 Vs 530mm2

Amazing...

 

[muppet]

nice skyrocket

 

[Rroff]

Somehow I can't bring myself to care about core size aslong as nVidia keeps delivering good performing cards.

 

[Skyrocket]

255mm2 Vs 530mm2

Amazing...

Yeah but but but....your forgeting the PhysiX! and the badaboom
Also keeps you nice and warm during cold winter nights!

 

[muppet]

with a core that size it must be hurting nvidia to price match

 

[hominid]

255mm2 Vs 530mm2

Amazing...

Totally true, for the size of the thing it's a very impressive chip.

 

[An Exception]

Somehow I can't bring myself to care about core size aslong as nVidia keeps delivering good performing cards.

Well just imagine what performance your Nvidia cards would offer if their architecture had similar performance per mm2!

Edit: Looking forward to Cayman now!

 

[bigjimmyauk]

hello tessellation performance thoughts

will we see an increase?

last time i'm asking lol

 

[Final8y]

Somehow I can't bring myself to care about core size aslong as nVidia keeps delivering good performing cards.

But thats the point that you seem not to be able to see that's its not a good performing card for its size.

 

[Skyrocket]

Well just imagine what performance your Nvidia cards would offer if their architecture had similar performance per mm2!

We might just find out with the 6970....

 

[neo2210]

Hello tessellation, when will we see you in any game, ever?

 

[Fx-Overlord]

hello tessellation performance thoughts

will we see an increase?

last time i'm asking lol

http://translate.googleusercontent....&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhrqoLqQ4jekWSxZova0uWHIpbJoQ

http://translate.googleusercontent....&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhjTSVxlGpZSjJ6Zm2vhX79TFJKrBQ

 

[bigjimmyauk]

http://translate.googleusercontent....&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhrqoLqQ4jekWSxZova0uWHIpbJoQ

http://translate.googleusercontent....&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhjTSVxlGpZSjJ6Zm2vhX79TFJKrBQ

thx at least there seems to be some improvement i'm hoping caymen smashes all this tho and pushes it even further

 

[JediFragger]

255mm2 Vs 530mm2

Amazing...

nVidia must be casting envious eyes upon the AMD 6*** line, that's for sure. Impressive, most impressive....

 

[Rroff]

No matter how you paint it bro the 6870 beat 470 handily in every benchmark bar 1 with PRE-RELEASE DRIVERS.

Granted overclocking benchmark would probably mix thing about a bit. But not by much.

GTX470 OC'd from 607->800MHz (31%), running forced 32x TRAA, High Quality texture and filtering settings in driver - showing a 25% performance gain. From other games I see gains between 21% and 29% from the same overclock. I think thats gonna make quite a difference over the 3-6% actual performance gains that have been seen so far from 6870 overclocks... tho granted when more reviews are out we may see cards capable of being pushed more. This is a distinctly average GTX470 overclock tho.

 

[Lightnix]

Somehow I can't bring myself to care about core size aslong as nVidia keeps delivering good performing cards.

Care as little as you like, but think of it this way: Barts is about the same size as the GTS 450's chip (GF106) - imagine what happens when that design is scaled up to say, the size of GF104.