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

didn't see any comparisons vs a 5850 though ?

and what happens to comparison when 5850 is overclocked ?

I'm tempted with a 6870, 5850 or 470 - but not sure which yet
 
Broken Hope said:
OcUK had the 6870 up for £199.99 before they pulled it earlier.
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Prices can be adjusted at any time ;)

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Buckster said:
didn't see any comparisons vs a 5850 though ?

and what happens to comparison when 5850 is overclocked ?

I'm tempted with a 6870, 5850 or 470 - but not sure which yet
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We got reviews going up tomorrow morning of both cards courtesy of helios1234 will drop the link by here when they are online :)
 
first thoughts is the 6870 don't look that great maybe with drivers in a couple of months it might pull ahead by a few percent i mean crysis was slower on the 6870 and metro was 1 frame faster.

i'm going to put it down to drivers and then see what these results look like from the real users on this forum
 
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.
 
The new AMD Catalyst A.I. options can be found by opening the 3D settings page, selecting the “All” tab and scrolling down. The Texture Filtering Quality slider has three settings – High Quality, Quality (default), and Performance. The High Quality setting disables all texture optimizations. The Quality setting enables a trilinear optimization as well as an anisotropic sample optimization, which are designed to have no visible impact on image quality while offering improved performance.

Radeon HD 6850 and 6870The Performance setting enables more aggressive versions of these optimizations that offer further performance improvement, but may have a small impact on image quality. The AMD Radeon HD 6800 series continues to support fully angle invariant anisotropic filtering, and incorporates further improvements in LOD precision relative to the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series.

These image quality benefits come with no additional performance cost and remain enabled at all Texture Filtering Quality settings. Here at Guru3D when comparing performance and image quality against NVIDIA products, we use the same Texture Filtering Quality setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel to ensure the most direct and fair comparison.

However, as of this writing NVIDIA products do not offer a comparable anisotropic filtering option with full angle independence. The Surface Format Optimization checkbox allows improved performance in selected games that use 16-bit floating point surfaces for HDR rendering. It is designed to have no discernable effect on image quality, and therefore we recommend it be left enabled as your default.
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No one can complain about AMD 'cheating' now.
 
I still don't know what to chose lol :P. It is between a 5850 or a 6850.

According to those reviews the 5850 overclocked a bit will beat a 6870?
 
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