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****OFFICIAL AMD 6000 series overclocking and benchmark results thread****

AMD optimized the shaders big time with the 68** cards, that's why you're seeing nearly equivalent performance to the last gen with less shaders. No voltage adjustment software out for the 68** cards yet? be interesting to see how far users can get them with some more juice.
 
I don't think msi after burner works with the 6 series which most people use so we should know more when thats patched. Asus and sapphire cards should have software bundled with them for volt tweaking. I think the max overclocks with these cards is gonna be around 30% with the norm being more 20% because of the stock high core clocks.
 
With like 23% less shader cores, AMD has done a brilliant job of increasing the efficiency of these GPUs.

NV need to do something similar with Fermi, and then some.
 
TheRealDeal said:
I don't think msi after burner works with the 6 series which most people use so we should know more when thats patched. Asus and sapphire cards should have software bundled with them for volt tweaking. I think the max overclocks with these cards is gonna be around 30% with the norm being more 20% because of the stock high core clocks.
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Any confirmation on temperatures yet?
 
crackerbear said:
I think you just pulled that price out of thin air. The cheapest it's been, that I know of, since it's release last Friday was £176.45 for a Sapphire version and that was a special pre-order price.

Currently the cheapest I can find delivered is £179.98, but this is a "VTX3D" version, whatever that is.
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I had 2 6870 in shopping basket in stock for 352£ including delivery but didn't pull the trigger...sooo 175.5£ each. Naturally they sold out and price has gone up...

There are some floating about for 177£ in stock.lol if that's not 170£ range don't know what is...
 
I can't really find much at all as everyone seems to be waiting on the volt mod software. They can't be to bad as i seen somewhere that at 1000 core they had the fan running 40% during benchmarking. Was just one bench with no mention of the temps.
 
Skyrocket said:
I had 2 6870 in shopping basket in stock for 352£ including delivery but didn't pull the trigger...sooo 175.5£ each. Naturally they sold out and price has gone up...
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I was in the same boat, I had a 6870 in the basket on Sunday, but for some reason decided to wait till Monday morning to buy, by which time they were all gone.

Skyrocket said:
There are some floating about for 177£ in stock.lol
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Is that including delivery? I've had a good long look at all the major retailers I know of and cannot find anyone that sells them for £177 delivered.

As I said in my previous post, the cheapest 6870 I've found is a VTX3D brand which I've never heard of so don't really want to part money for one. The one that was for £176.45 was Sapphire which I do trust and makes me more annoyed that I didn't buy one sooner.
 
For comparison, here is my GTX 460 at stock 675core / 3600mem.
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...and here it is overclocked to 950core / 4300mem.
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GPU is overclocked by 40% and memory by 20%. This provides an overall Heaven Benchmark increase of 36%. Also notice how well the minimun framerates hold up.
 
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crackerbear said:
I was in the same boat, I had a 6870 in the basket on Sunday, but for some reason decided to wait till Monday morning to buy, by which time they were all gone.


Is that including delivery? I've had a good long look at all the major retailers I know of and cannot find anyone that sells them for £177 delivered.

As I said in my previous post, the cheapest 6870 I've found is a VTX3D brand which I've never heard of so don't really want to part money for one. The one that was for £176.45 was Sapphire which I do trust and makes me more annoyed that I didn't buy one sooner.
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VTX is a new ATI graphics card company built by TUL, a company most known for their company Powercolor. VTX plans on pricing their cards very competitively.
 
555BUK said:
For comparison, here is my GTX 460 at stock 675core / 3600mem.
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...and here it is overclocked to 950core / 4300mem.
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Wow 950 core, sweet, what temps and is that a 24/7 overclock.

Amazing scaling as well, 40% overclock nets a 40% increase in FPS.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
Wow 950 core, sweet, what temps and is that a 24/7 overclock.
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It is a vanilla ASUS 460 1GB. 950MHz is stable, but temps do reach late 70's and I downclock it to 900MHz for 24/7 longevity. At these speeds the card feels as the 5870 it replaced. It certainly cannot reach the 1000MHz some of the 6870's on here hit, but the 460 does have 10% more transistors to keep it warm. I think clock for clock, both cards are pretty equal.
 
The 36% scaling for the GTX460 40% OC shows that Heaven is GPU/shader intensive. Memory speed does not make much difference.
 
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