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

[Ezyryder]

thanks - was leaning that way too but awaiting a load more reviews of the 6870 - early days yet

I wouldn't. Cooler running, not as noisy, better resale value and faster at stock.

They tried overclocking the sample from 900 to 954 mhz succesfully too.

 

[Rroff]

Gonna need much more than 54MHz to see any difference from stock performance... I'm thinking the OC'd 470 v OC'd 6870 is gonna go the way of nVidia.

 

[psychas]

bloody website is not responding for me lol probably overlaoded

 

[Mr Krugga]

That's all I got for you now, maybe someone can post the rest from their browser's cache.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Poor overclocking performance right there, can these take extra volts?

 

[Rroff]

Oh wow less than 4% performance increase... hardly a decent overclock.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Poor overclocking performance right there, can these take extra volts?

Oh wow less than 4% performance increase... hardly a decent overclock.

I think it's the 6850 that overclocks well, can't support it with any data though.

 

[crackerman]

Fair to assume an overclocked 5850 would beat a overclocked 6870 by a fair margin then?

 

[HazardO]

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[RavenXXX2]

Fair to assume an overclocked 5850 would beat a overclocked 6870 by a fair margin then?

If you can get a 5850 to 950-1000 core it will be faster but I wouldn't say massively.

 

[Broken Hope]

Someone managed to get it before it was taken down.

http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc273/madmaxnl/2156/?start=0

 

[RavenXXX2]

^^ cheers

 

[cainer]

i see CF 6870 sitting inbetween sli 470 and sli 480 there

 

[Fx-Overlord]

Is anybody else seeing that 6870 xfire is faster than even 5870 xfire though the 6870 is a slower single card? hmm

5870 CF scaling : 67%
6870 CF scaling: 93%!

Bring on Antilles.

EDIT: 6850 CF looks good!

 

[Mr Krugga]

I can imagine both cards owning the market soon. We all know that AMD's cards are cheaper in production, they also don't have that many fixed costs as Nvidia meaning that they can always lower their pricing.

BTW, controlled leak anyone? Guru3D was pro-Nvidia last time around, now they supposedly favour AMD cards, hmm...

 

[cainer]

also single 6870 sits inbetween 470 and 480

 

[RavenXXX2]

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.

 

[NZXT30]

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.

plus the 470 has better dx11 performance, more features and memory and is cheaper. i say the 470 is still a no brainer.

 

[kylew]

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.

Cainer supposedly has 6870s for testing.

 

[SBD]

Cards are up now

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1866&sortby=priceAsc