Powercolor 6850 or EVGA 550ti

6850 hands down its faster

The 6850 is according to Tom AMD's Radeon HD 6850 proved to be a worthy adversary against the 256-bit flavor of the GeForce GTX 460. And as a result, PC gamers win with exceptional performance at the $140 mark.

Both cards offer DirectX 11 support and HD audio bitstreaming capabilities. The main differentiators are Eyefinity multi-monitor support favoring the Radeon card, while the GeForce board has access to Nvidia's 3D Vision infrastructure that includes 3D gaming and Blu-ray 3D support. At the moment, 256-bit GeForce GTX 460 cards are being phased out, so AMD's offering gets our recommendation.You can read about it here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-rade... but keep in mind you can get gtx 460 right now for 99.99 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ite...

hd 6850 is the way to go dont worry that the powercolor is the bad brand its good brand but not good as comparing ti the other brands like sapphire asus xfx gigabyte etc but its good so go for it . 

goodluck. 

6850 is far better. the 550ti is comparable to amd's 6770.

sure the 6850 is much better. See if you can find a better brand like sapphire, MSI, xfx, asus or even gigabyte.

That said. Whats your budget like? and your rig like?

apparently powercolor hd6850 is the only brand available in my country, Philippines, im trying to canvass a bit more but for now thats my only option..

Intel Core i3-2100
Elite H61h2-M2
Seagate 500gb 7200rpm
Kingston 4gb DDR3 hyper x blue
ASUS 24x DVD burner
AEROCOOL STRIKE X ONE ADVANCE
FSP Group Everest 85PLUS 600 600W ATX

thats my rig..

my budget is around $165 to $ 170..

No doubt the 6850, its close to 2 steps ahead of the 550 ti.

the best ones in order of best to worst.
asus 6850 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
can be overclocked 50% but you must watch the heat dont let it exceed 85 c

msi twin frozr III 6850
great oc software ---- but dont see it anywere.

powercooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

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