Roundup: Four Radeon HD 6850 1 GB Cards Compared
Improvements to performance, acoustics, and bundles can add big value once a reference graphics card is modified by third-party vendors. We compare four modified Radeon HD 6850 1 GB boards to find out which company's additions best suit your gaming needs.
Benchmark Results: Crysis
Crysis tortures every part of a modern system in spite of its age. Fortunately, 1680x1050 appears playable at Very High detail levels.
We had to take notes on minimum frame rates to assure playability with anti-aliasing enabled. MSI’s reference-clocked card drops to 18 FPS, while the rest barely meet our 20 FPS minimum qualification.
AA must be disabled to play smoothly at our 1920x1080 target resolution, where our notes say the slowest card stays above 20 FPS (minimum). The fastest card in the group, PowerColor’s PCS+ AX6850 only reaches 19 FPS with AA enabled.
Playing Crysis at 2560x1600 on any of these cards would require drastic drops in detail level.
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It would be nice to see overclocking results. I know the whole "results will vary" malarkey but still, it would be interesting to see things like the benefit (if any) to having two pci-e power connectors on the Sapphire card or how high you could take the ASUS card using the software that came with it. Oh, and also, can you use Afterburner with the Powercolor and Sapphire cards?Reply
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Scanlia Oh, and also, can you use Afterburner with the Powercolor and Sapphire cards?Reply
I use afterburner with a Gigabyte Card, (Flashed to ASUS). Works fine. -
Crashman BillehBawbOh, and also, can you use Afterburner with the Powercolor and Sapphire cards?YesReply
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scrumworks Why are you using catalyst 10.6 (drivers from june) instead of latest, quite long already available 10.11 or 10.10-beta with HD6800 support?Reply -
sudeshc love this card looking to buy it for my new build and would go for ASUS as i already own the game.Reply -
iam2thecrowe so, wheres the comparison between these cards and rival cards from nvidia??? using recent drivers?? and OC???!this doesnt really tell us anything except the performance is so close you may as well get the cheapest of the lot.Reply -
ATI driver support is a complete debacle. That's why this article uses stone age drivers (10.6)Reply
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Crashman karma831No OCing?iam2thecroweso, wheres the comparison between these cards and rival cards from nvidia??? using recent drivers?? and OC???!this doesnt really tell us anything except the performance is so close you may as well get the cheapest of the lot.Er dude...Reply
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850-barts,2776.html
The previous article, which answered all your questions a month ago, was linked numerous times in this article.