First full Radeon HD 6850 & 6870 review pushed live a bit early...
...and promptly taken down but first copied and mirrored here :D
Enjoy :up:
EDIT:
onetreehill has posted links to all the other reviews here (post 32 in this thread ;))
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Thank you sir. :up:
Biker to the rescue..Quote:
Originally Posted by Biker
God bless ya laddie!:up:
Google cache is also working.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...6870-review/23
:rofl: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Metroid
big performance on a small chip means big price drops, and forcing nvidia to make big price drops too.
6870 and gtx 470 perform similarly for around $250. 6850 and gtx 460 perform similarly for around $200.
to catch up to 5870, they clocked 6870 as high as it will go. 6850 on the other hand has some overclock room left.
Both cards are <150W cards. these are very small, very inexpensive chips, so amd is making a lot more money here than nvidia. gtx 470 is a loser for nvidia right now. In a way you can consider it a steal that you can get such a huge chip for such a low price..
amd has out-executed nvidia so well this year it is tear-jerking.
... and here is the first full Crossfire review ;)
Dba and power efficiency are awesome!
6850 OC 900/4400
6870 OC 950/4344
but this is without voltage adjusted i guess
Yay!! now I don't have to wait for hours!!
2 x 6850 power consumption - 393 watts (full system)
1 x GTX 470 power consumption - 411 watts
In terms of power consumption ATI er AMD ;) was always ahead this round but that is a pretty killer stat you have pulled out right there :yepp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides
AMD should think of chasing down abatements for reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions their products have in comparison to others... would be a powerful strategyQuote:
Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides
The Crossfire performance is impressive! And it looks like AMD finally got around to adding a way to disable the texture optimizations in the control panel, just like Nvidia.
Cayman is going to be a monster!
wow, i am definitely getting one, thanx for links.
I think most nerdy techie types are smart enough not to buy into the global warming scare though ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kuroikenshi
Some great numbers on these new chips. Hopefully Cayman is 2x Barts and not 1.5x, that would be killer.
The 6850 for only $179 is surprising. I thought it would end up $199. Great price / performance ratio.
$249 and $189?! Wow AMD got the prices right this time. A couple of 6850s should get the job done for anybody at only $380.
I wonder how the scaling will be in trifire. This is impressive as I think it out performs the 5870 across the board at 1080p.
And these temps etc.. are just reference cooling too... which actually might be enough this time around ^^
Crossfire and Eyefinity testing is missing :confused:
But w/ no Physx...:D I'm kiddin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Metroid
Its better to see lower prices from the start/release since price-cuts virtually have a slight-to-no effect here in my place.:shrug:
I'm definately not liking the 6870 OC... 900 to 954? My 5770's do 955 core at 1.14v...
5850 @ $255:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-500-_-Product
6870 @ $240:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-909-_-Product
Since the 6870 @ 900 Mhz is slightly faster than the 5850 @ 725 Mhz (but not as fast as the 5870) , wouldn't a 5850 @ 1000 just blow the 6870 out of the water? ;)
Yes, yes, I know power consumption would be higher.
It won't exist because there is only one crossfire bridge. (Just using common sense, feel free to correct me.)Quote:
Originally Posted by villa1n
It's in another review and it's also already been posted in this very thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by trn
It seems those reviews are officially back now.
http://www.pconline.com.cn/images/ht...bnamecode=home
This suggests that load voltage is 1.172v,which is very low.
AMD went with different VRM's Chill instead of Volterra,software like MSI afterburner just needs an update to support the new voltage controller,after which am sure these will do 1GHz and more.
Reviewers should have just edited the I2C values with a quick bios mod,I know I would have :D
Just checked the Guru3d review, was expected, the 6850/6870 is indeed a little slower than the 5850/5870 but its faster in Far Cry 2.
Decent enough, just wish ATI/AMD didn't mess up the naming scheme. Should have kept the 6750/6770 name instead would make more sense.
So far, looks like nothing has changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeepBeep2
Asus 470 22%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...TX_470/33.html
MSI 460 1GB 17%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/M...C_1_GB/34.html
MSI 460 768MB 16%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/M...768_MB/34.html
HIS 5850 15%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5850/33.html
5870 5%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...D_5870/33.html
Manufacture surely impacts overclocking as we can see below. Asus 20%, HIS 6% :lol:
Asus 6850 20%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...ect_Cu/31.html
HIS 6850 6%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...D_6850/31.html
HIS 6870 8%, http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...D_6870/32.html
Yes, but is nothing comparable to what we can do here at XS. :lol: