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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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress any and all DX11 enabled video cards.
Benchmark Results: When S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat first came out it was one of the toughest DX11 benchmarks that you could run, but as you can see all of the DX11 video cards on the market today can easily run this PC Game title. Here we see the AMD Radeon HD 6870 was just a tad faster than the ATI Radeon HD 5850 and having about the same performance as a pair of Radeon HD 5770 video cards running in CrossFire.
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| Review Index |
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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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