Battlefield 3 Radeon 6850 FPS

Joab4652

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Hi... I want to upgrade my PC to be able to play Battlefield 3 and other games... I want to buy the "XFX Radeon HD 6850" I want to play Battlefield 3 on ultra settings with a high frame rate but I dont think that'll happen, I've looked up videos on youtube and it looks playable but I keep on reading all over the place that you need at least 60 FPS for competitive gameplay to be playable or something like that. I would like to know if anybody plays Battlefield 3 with this card and how well it performs on multiplayer and single player... How much FPS do you get. My second choice would be the "Sapphire Radeon HD 6950" which I cant afford right now, is it worth the extra 50$?

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.



XFX Radeon HD 6850:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005NI5XSI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER



Sapphire Radeon HD 6950:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102987


Specs:
ASUS M4A88T-M Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
8GB Kingston RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate X64
 

Joab4652

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WTF!!! 500 Plus... I would if I could
 
6850 will give you medium settings.45-85 fps.@1080p
6870 will give 45-85 high settings @1080p
i run a 5870 which is slightly better than both but i play at low settings with high textures with a rock solid 60fps. on all maps except gulf of oman where fps can drop on occasion down to the low teens... this is purely a memory limitation of the 1 gig cards. which can be limited if you have the correct drivers... currently the best for bf3 are the 12.3 1s.
200-250bux will get you high single player settings but if you play multi you will want to run at low to get the best feedback and packet data rates.
 

RyQril

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i would recommend the 6950, with ultra settings you can get 30fps avg, with OC its super!!

6950:
800MHz Engine Clock
2GB GDDR5 Memory
1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5)
160 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
2.25 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power
562.5 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power
1408 Stream Processors
88 Texture Units

6850:
775MHz Engine Clock
1GB GDDR5 Memory
1000MHz Memory Clock (GDDR5)
128 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
1.5 TFLOPS compute power
960 Stream Processors
48 Texture Units
 

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ASUS M4A88T-M Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
8GB Kingston RAM
i had that and 6850gigabyte 6850oc and on ultra setting i got aboot 40fps now i have cf the card and get 70fps on ultra now.on bf3