AMD Radeon HD 6870 And 6850: Is Barts A Step Forward?
Benchmark Results: Civilization V
Civilization V has two distinct arenas: diplomacy and the map. The diplomatic view involves beautifully-rendered versions of famous leaders like Alexander the Great and the Pharaoh Rameses, while the map view involves representations of military forces on lovingly-rendered terrain. We'll start with the leader benchmark, a test that does give us some comparative information about the products we're testing. Although, with frame rates above 100 FPS in every case, the result doesn't seem relevant.
It is definitely interesting to see the frame rates soar when the map is zoomed in. But when the map is zoomed out, performance drops between 54 and 73 FPS on these powerful cards. The GeForce cards are favored in this part of the game.
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SteelCity1981 Yeah I agree. I don't get AMD's marketing on the 6000 series. One would think that the 6870 would obv performan better then the 5870 at first glance but instead it yelds less performance then the 5870. That just doesn't make any sense from a consumor standpoint.Reply -
TheRockMonsi I like where AMD is going with the 6000 series, not so much with naming, but pretty much everything else about it. Can't wait for the 6900's, those are going to be beasts!!!!!Reply -
Poisoner I think AMD did a great job with these cards. Its just sick at what performance you can get for 200 bucks.Reply -
duk3 Nice benchmark suite!Reply
I am looking forward to the 6900 series and 22nm gpus later on for some real performance improvements. -
takeapieandrun Not exactly powerhouses, but I do believe they will be great for market competition.Reply -
forces nice but... where is Crysis!!!? they can play Crysis i know but how well can they play it? everyone has Crysis and have played Crysis and will play it... :(, its a nice game to compare perfomance...Reply