Got the XFX 6870 Dual Fan edtion

[zod96]

Got my XFX 6870 with Dual Fans today. The card is certainly much much quieter than the stock fans on other 6870's. It does make a bit of a whoosh sound though. The card is much shorter than the 6950 I had in their. I ran a benchmark using fraps comparing the 6950 to the 6870 on BC2 using 1920x1200 with 2X AA and 16X AF vysnc on. Here are the results:

2011-01-24 17:29:43 - BFBC2Game 6950
Frames: 8071 - Time: 134633ms - Avg: 59.948 - Min: 57 - Max: 62

2011-01-26 16:35:28 - BFBC2Game 6870
Frames: 9351 - Time: 156137ms - Avg: 59.890 - Min: 53 - Max: 63

As I suspected. The 6950 is about 5 FPS faster, which is nothing really when playing a fast paced game. Now I have to decide which card to keep. Oh the card is idling about 38 at 25% fan speed.


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[alfa147x]

Keep the XFX 6870. Send me the 6950... It's too loud for you anyways

 

[drizek]

Keep the 6950. Send me the XFX 6870... It's too slow for you anyways

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Buy a 580 and send me BOTH, I am greedy like that.

 

[ss284]

Looks like vsync is enabled. BC2 is heavily dependant on cpu processing power, so this might not be the best comparison.

 

[Shinjo]

yeah, it did look like you had carelessly tweaked the option Vsynx open, maybe you need to check this option.

 

[BFG10K]

I ran a benchmark using fraps comparing the 6950 to the 6870 on BC2 using 1920x1200 with 2X AA and 16X AF vysnc on.

Is this some kind of joke?

 

[zod96]

I really wanted to see what the minimum fps would be. I know the 6950 is faster. I play all my games with Vysnc on...