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AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 CrossFire Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Radeon HD 6870 & 6850 |
| Date: | Thu, Oct 21, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in the Ukraine. The game is played from the perspective of a character named Artyom. The story takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, mostly inside the metro station where the player's character was raised (he was born before the war, in an unharmed city), but occasionally the player has to go above ground on certain missions and scavenge for valuables.
This is another extremely demanding game. Settings were left at High quality with AA and AF at lowest values- AAA and AF 4x, respectively, for each DirectX 9, 10 & 11 APIs. Advanced DirectX 11 settings were left at default. The section of Metro 2033 tested was the Prologue with fraps polling from when you are climbing up the ladder until opening the door to exit the metro station. This section includes many features found throughout the game including four creatures which attack you before you exit the building, dense particles, ammo in cabinets, a few computer controlled sections and, of course, Miller, your first companion.
Benchmark Results: Metro 2033 is a killer on pretty much all graphics cards and only the $200+ video card/s were able to run this benchmark above 30fps at a screen resolution of 1920x1200. The Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 had respectable scores and were pretty close to the performance levels of the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850.
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Page 1 - AMD's 2nd Generation DX11 Video Card - Radeon 6800
Page 2 - 6800 Strategy, Pricing, and a peek at the 6900 series Page 3 - Stereoscopic 3D, HDMI 1.4, Eyefinity and More Page 4 - The AMD Radeon HD 6850 Page 5 - The AMD Radeon HD 6870 Page 6 - The Test System Page 7 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 8 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Page 9 - Just Cause 2 Page 10 - Metro 2033 Page 11 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 12 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Page 13 - 3DMark Vantage Page 14 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 15 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 16 - Temperature Testing Page 17 - Power Consumption Page 18 - Overclocking Page 19 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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