AMD Radeon HD6870/HD6850 Reviews Thread

[SlowSpyder]

New here, but been lurking these boards for awhile now and have a question.

I currently have an Athlon II X2 at 2.7 ghz with a 4670. Do you think getting a 6850 would show an increase in performance, or do you think my CPU would bottleneck the GPU too much? $179 ia an awesome value!

Thank you

A 4670 is pretty low end, I am confident you would see some pretty big gains. With that being said, your CPU will likely not let the 6850 fully stretch it's legs. But, even so, a 4670 is very out dated, a 6850 would be a substantial upgrade.

 

[Rossini]

A 4670 is pretty low end, I am confident you would see some pretty big gains. With that being said, your CPU will likely not let the 6850 fully stretch it's legs. But, even so, a 4670 is very out dated, a 6850 would be a substantial upgrade.

Thanks for the response, of the 3 cards which manufacter do you think is the best? Gigabyte, Sapphire, or Powercolor?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...06000%20series

The Gigabyte seems to have the best warranty...but the 2 fan setup seems like it would be loud.

 

[extra]

The gigabyte card definately looks like it has a superior cooling solution.

 

[GaiaHunter]

New here, but been lurking these boards for awhile now and have a question.

I currently have an Athlon II X2 at 2.7 ghz with a 4670. Do you think getting a 6850 would show an increase in performance, or do you think my CPU would bottleneck the GPU too much? $179 ia an awesome value!

Thank you

Depends of what resolution you play (1680x1050 and higer) and if you OC that CPU to 3.0-3.2 GHz should make it fine. Lower than that and you might save some money with a cheaper GTX 460 768MB or even 5770 and GTS450.

 

[Barfo]

I'm ctrl+F5 Anandtech.com and don't see it

come on!

 

[Rossini]

Depends of what resolution you play (1680x1050 and higer) and if you OC that CPU to 3.0-3.2 GHz should make it fine. Lower than that and you might save some money with a cheaper GTX 460 768MB or even 5770 and GTS450.

I game at 1920×1080. Bad company 2 is pretty choppy even on the lowest settings with my 4670. I plan on building a rig next year and would probably just reuse the 6850.

 

[Barfo]

Anand's review is up

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/amds-radeon-6870-6850-renewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market

 

[happy medium]

I game at 1920×1080. Bad company 2 is pretty choppy even on the lowest settings with my 4670. I plan on building a rig next year and would probably just reuse the 6850.

Go 6850 then.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I game at 1920×1080. Bad company 2 is pretty choppy even on the lowest settings with my 4670. I plan on building a rig next year and would probably just reuse the 6850.

At that resolution go ahead.

 

[Skurge]

the Hexus review has a 810mhz GTX460 in it. It ties with the 6870.

 

[blastingcap]

never mind I reposted

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Cool my 5870 isn't dated yet. Not many games even push my card anyways .

 

[muskie32]

These cards also seemed to knock down the price of the GTX 470...

 

[GaiaHunter]

nm

 

[Bateluer]

Need the 6970, thats what I want to replace my 4870.

Edit - Hmm. AT's review had the 1GB 4870 in a number of tests, easily getting beaten by both the 6850 and 6870, while having much higher power requirements and heat.

Maybe I should just pick up a 6870 then, not like games are going to really push it for a while. Damn consolized junk.

 

[Sickamore]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAHNAbSzYE&feature=sub

 

[bunnyfubbles]

These cards also seemed to knock down the price of the GTX 470...

Makes sense considering how often the 6870 nips at the heals of the 470 or even the 5870 and in some cases is faster.

 

[Sickamore]

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/asus_hd6870_crossfire_exclusive_review/1

 

[happy medium]

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/asus_hd6870_crossfire_exclusive_review/1

That review had the 6870 doing 1000 core with no voltage bump.:thumbsup:

 

[woolfe9999]

I wouldn't even remotely consider buying one of these today. With AMD's claim of strong supply and Nvidia's immediate price cut, I'd expect the 6870 to be available for $210 and the the 6850 for $150 by the middle of next week at the outside. That said, this is anandtech, so some of you will buy it anyway, which is great, because then you can come and post about it here.

- wolf

 

[jiffylube1024]

Looks like a great card - almost makes me want to upgrade from a GTX 460 but the % increase wouldn't be worth the hassle and I'm quite happy with my card.

I really don't get why AMD couldn't just call it a 6770 and 6750, which fits in with everything else they were doing, but name aside it looks like a great card. The wealth of connection options on the cards put Nvidia to shame.

Does anybody know how many monitors one of these cards can drive?

 

[amenx]

I really don't get why AMD couldn't just call it a 6770 and 6750, which fits in with everything else they were doing, but name aside it looks like a great card.

Quite obvious, 6870 and 6850 sound more impressive than 6770 and 6750.

 

[blastingcap]

Quite obvious, 6870 and 6850 sound more impressive than 6770 and 6750.

AMD said it was to make room for Fusion numbers. I guess we'll see some low-end 6xxx's and those will be Fusion embedded graphics numbers.

 

[toyota]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/10/22/ati-radeon-hd-6870-review/1

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/10/22/ati-radeon-hd-6850-review/1

 

[blastingcap]

Silverforce claimed 10.11 drivers would boost performance and said he didn't understand why AMD didn't ship them to reviewers. Apparently AMD did ship them--but so late into the process that reviewers didn't have time to redo their benchmarks! All of the performance numbers we are looking at right now might already be outdated.

http://hardocp.com/article/2010/10/21/amd_radeon_hd_6870_6850_video_card_review - "Unfortunately, the driver initially sent to us by AMD does not support the Morphological AA feature, so we cannot test it in this evaluation. A new driver was sent to us a day ago that does support MAA, but we haven’t had the time to look at the feature yet. A follow-up will come where we look at this image quality feature."