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

[pieman109]

Just tried the crysis benchie with all settings on DX10, "very high", 2xAA with a 6850 @830 core/ 1130 memory, res 1920 x 1080 with the system below in me sig and got 25.65 fps
Normal in game settings, with everything at medium and shaders, texture quality and object quality on "very high" but everything else the same, I get 45.6 fps average.
If someone can tell me how to do a screen shot I'll post it here.

I personally think that these cards would make a really nice Xfire setup meself, very quiet, very cool with reasonable performance provided Xfire scales well which apparently it looks like they do.

 

[easyrider]

I personally think that these cards would make a really nice Xfire setup meself, very quiet, very cool with reasonable performance provided Xfire scales well which apparently it looks like they do.

Are you talking to yourself here?

 

[pieman109]

Are you talking to yourself here?

Only way to get a decent conversation mate, hit quote instead of edit didn't I.

 

[^Andy^]

Ok here we go...

Firstly stock 6870 at 1080p dx11 everything else at default..

Now as above but with gpu set to 980 and mem set to 1200

and finally as above but with gpu at 1000 and mem at 1200

The last run needed the fan set manually as the auto profile didn't ramp it up fast enough to prevent it glitching otherwise.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Theres good scaling in those results, around 10% more performance for around 10% overclock.

 

[An Exception]

Hopefully 1.1Ghz should be doable with a bit of voltage?

 

[ViRuS2k]

same settings 5970 as above, about 65fps average
22fps minimum and 165fps maximum.

 

[^Andy^]

Hopefully 1.1Ghz should be doable with a bit of voltage?

I think its probably doable now if you can find a way to unlock the overdrive limits and dont mind the fan ramped up to 100%.

I had a poke around with the bios earlier using the latest version of RBE but wasnt brave enough to flash it back again - I'll let some other fool try that first lol

 

[jorzeh]

i'm quite interested to see how the 6870 performs in AVP single card

 

[^Andy^]

i'm quite interested to see how the 6870 performs in AVP single card

I ran that benchmark but it just closes at the end with no hint at where to find the results?

 

[straxusii]

For ref same settings as Andy on Heaven 2.1 and I get 37.1, that's with 5870@900/1250. Nice to see we have a £175-£200 ATI card ~ equalling the 5870

 

[crackerbear]

i'm quite interested to see how the 6870 performs in AVP single card

You can see some benchmarks that reviews have got for AVP here (although most are at stock speeds):

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_6870_CrossFire/3.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850-barts,2776-12.html

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...286-amd-radeon-hd-6870-hd-6850-review-15.html

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1445/7/

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...-graphics-card-review-aliens-vs-predator.html

http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1109&page=11

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/sapphire-radeon-hd6850-and-hd6870-review/7/

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...sk=view&id=628&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=7

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-HD-6870--6850-GPUs-Debut/?page=13

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_hd_6870,4.html

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Roundups/amd_radeon_6870_6850/7.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/325-amd-radeon-6870/page4.html

 

[^Andy^]

ok found the AVP gui tool so running some benchmarks now.
Initial results with 980 core 1200 mem are

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
CPU ID: Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q DELUXE Rev 1.xx
Installed RAM: 8.00 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 x64
Video adapter: Radeon HD 6800 Series
Video Processor: ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video driver: Catalyst 10.10 (8.782.1-101020a-106976E)

1920 x 1080/Very High/High/16/SSAO On/TS On/AS On/4X
Used AvP_D3D11_Benchmark.exe

Number of frames: 3331
Average Frame Time: 31.5ms
Average FPS: 31.8

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[^Andy^]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
Other settings..

CPU ID: Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q DELUXE Rev 1.xx
Installed RAM: 8.00 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 x64
Video adapter: Radeon HD 6800 Series
Video Processor: ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video driver: Catalyst 10.10 (8.782.1-101020a-106976E)

1920 x 1080/Very High/High/1/SSAO On/TS On/AS On/0X
Used AvP_D3D11_Benchmark.exe

Number of frames: 6099
Average Frame Time: 17.2ms
Average FPS: 58.2

===========================================

 

[^Andy^]

jorzeh are there any specific settings you would like me to run the avp benchmark with?

 

[cainer]

here is my crossfire 6870(x8/x8) results

AvP

*DX11 Hardware Detected*

Using Default Video Settings:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Texture Quality: 2
Shadow Quality: 3
Anisotropic Filtering: 16
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: 1


Benchmark Summary:

Number of frames: 9318
Average Frame Time: 11.2ms
Average FPS: 88.9

to give a V's 5870 comparison.. with default settings @ 1920x1080 (same as above) CF 5870 vapor-X's @ 875/1250 (stock) and an i7@ 3.6 (urs is @ 3.8)

103fps CF

56fps single

 

[^Andy^]

For ref same settings as Andy on Heaven 2.1 and I get 37.1, that's with 5870@900/1250. Nice to see we have a £175-£200 ATI card ~ equalling the 5870

It's not quite equal but it's certainly within spitting distance when overclocked.

It's also not something that I am going to complain about considering I blagged one for £176 on release day.

 

[Buckster]

I'm still confused - these benches are impressing me - but what should make me go 6870 instead of a 470 for 15 quid more (excluding power and heat which don't bother me at all)

 

[^Andy^]

I'm still confused - these benches are impressing me - but what should make me go 6870 instead of a 470 for 15 quid more (excluding power and heat which don't bother me at all)

Only you can answer that - if it seems a better deal then go for it.
I don't have an SLI capable motherboard so for me it was an easy choice - I can add an extra 6870 if needed but had I gone back to an nvidia card I would be a little more screwed.

 

[Chisharpe]

Ok here are my sapphire 6870s in crossfire on stock clocks


Test System:
Core i7 920 D0 @ 4Ghz
Asus Rampage Gene II
Cosair XMS3 1600 6GIG
WD Blue 7200 320 HD
Corsair H50
Corsair TX850
40" Samsung 1080p LCD

All Benches were run at full settings @ 1080p

The Game Benchmarks:

Crysis

Very High DX10 64Bit 1920x1080 AAx0 2 Runs

Average FPS: 50.31
Min FPS: 27.67 Max FPS: 76.07 Ave

Very High DX10 64Bit 1920x1080 AAx4 2 Runs

Average FPS: 43.97
Min FPS: 23.77 Max FPS: 67.35

Very High DX10 64Bit 1920x1080 AAx8 2 Runs

Average FPS: 45.04
Min FPS: 24.49 Max FPS: 70.20

Next up Crysis Warhead Enthusiast Settings Frost 2 runs Dx10 64bit

Resident evil @Full settings 1080p

Just Cause 2

1st bench in list

Desert Storm

Batman AA full settings no AA

hope you like them