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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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Aliens vs. Predator
Aliens vs Predator D3D11 Benchmark v1.03 is a standalone benchmark test based upon Rebellion's 2010 inter-species shooter Aliens vs. Predator. The test shows xenomorph-tastic scenes using heavy tessellation among other DX11 features.
We cranked up all the image quality settings in the benchmark to the highest level possible, so we were running 4x AA and 16x AF with SSAO enabled at both 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 on all the video cards.
Benchmark Results: To start off our benchmarking we ran AvP with the image quality cranked up and we got a great chart for you to look at. The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 cards were split by the Radeon HD 5850 video card. It was interesting to see that a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 cards run in SLI were roughly the same speed as a single Radeon HD 6870. The AMD Radeon HD 6870 costs $229 and a pair of GeForce GTS 450 cards in SLI $110 each after rebate, so the pricing and performance of the cards is almost perfectly lined up. The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1GB FTW video card is factory overclocked with the core at 850MHz and it retails for $230 after rebate. The overclocked GeForce GTX 460 1GB pulls out a victory here, but the card has higher power consumption levels and you have to deal with rebates to get a price this low.
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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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