Has anyone done a 6850 round-up review yet?

[Barfo]

Since it's the model I'm interested in and all the cards are custom designed by AMD's AIB partners, I was wondering if someone has compared how the different cooling solutions compare against each other. 6850 owners' opinions are welcome too 🙂

 

[blastingcap]

I believe Ryan or Anand said AT will have a 6850 sometime this week. I just got my EVGA GTX460 a day early (though a tiny piece of it fell off when I took the card out of the packaging, wtf?), so I have kinda stopped caring about Barts. I'm still kinda interested in Cayman's architecture though. 🙂

 

[exarchrum]

I'm really interested in this too. I'm eyeing the Asus 6850 on amazon (~$187, currently out of stock). Asus claims it can overclock to 1180mhz (which is most likely way higher than most people can achieve) but it would be nice to see how far people can push these cards.

I also saw this card by Colorfire (only sell in China i think?) The card has two PCIE power connectors so I'm guessing that would boost performance at the cost of using more power. I wonder how long before other manufacturers will be making cards like this?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I found a little overclocking roundup today.

 

[blastingcap]

Nice find. I made a roundup of 6850 overclocks days ago here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2114906

 

[OCGuy]

@wata

Link so the author gets credit?

 

[RussianSensation]

@wata

Link so the author gets credit?

GPUReview.com - great website to compare specs of cards quickly 🙂

 

[edplayer]

I just got my EVGA GTX460 a day early (though a tiny piece of it fell off when I took the card out of the packaging, wtf?),...

a tiny rectangle of black plastic? Smooth corners so it looks like it came off versus broke off?

 

[blastingcap]

a tiny rectangle of black plastic? Smooth corners so it looks like it came off versus broke off?

Hmm perhaps I should make a thread about it. Here you go: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30666083

 

[Ryan Smith]

I believe Ryan or Anand said AT will have a 6850 sometime this week.

The roundup should be up early next week. The last of my cards should be arriving today or tomorrow, at which point I can get fully underway.

 

[poohbear]

any word on the Sapphire Vapor-x? love their ultra silent coolers, sick of buying my own after market coolers, i'll just pay sapphire the extra $20 and save all the hassle!

 

[WaTaGuMp]

The roundup should be up early next week. The last of my cards should be arriving today or tomorrow, at which point I can get fully underway.

I take it these test will now be done with cards having the proper amount of shaders?

 

[Barfo]

The roundup should be up early next week. The last of my cards should be arriving today or tomorrow, at which point I can get fully underway.

Great, looking forward to it.

 

[Barfo]

I believe Ryan or Anand said AT will have a 6850 sometime this week. I just got my EVGA GTX460 a day early (though a tiny piece of it fell off when I took the card out of the packaging, wtf?), so I have kinda stopped caring about Barts. I'm still kinda interested in Cayman's architecture though. 🙂

Quitter 😛

 

[Concillian]

6850s are voltage limited.

Assuming your power supply can handle the extra power, ALL of them are going to be able to hit 900 if you use the default voltage of the 6870. Most should handle the 950ish that a 5770 does... again, with enough power / voltage.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Mine better not come with 800 stream processing units.:biggrin: Just ordered it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-399-_-Product

 

[Rhezuss]

Mine better not come with 800 stream processing units.:biggrin: Just ordered it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-399-_-Product

Hahahah like the Sapphire HD 5770 with 720SP instead of 800SP "back in the days"...
If thats the case, they're being pretty honest about it lol

 

[Lonyo]

I made a post in another thread, but it's probably also relevant here somewhat.

These seem to be the current 3 non-reference cards on Newegg (all HD6850), all the 6870's seem to be reference.
No idea about relative performance of the coolers, hopefully someone will have a roundup soon that tells us.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30670472&postcount=4