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XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | XFX |
| Product: | XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition Video Card |
| Date: | Tue, Feb 22, 2011 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Brian Giacoletti - |
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Unigine Heaven
The 'Heaven' benchmark that uses the Unigine easily shows off the full potential of DirectX 11 graphics cards. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode emerging, experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extent and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming. The distinguishing feature of the benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand.
We ran the Heaven v2.1 benchmark that just recently out with VSync turned disabled, but with 8x AA and 16x AF enabled to check out system performance. We ran the benchmark at 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 to see how the benchmark ran at some different monitor resolutions. It should be noted that we ran the new extreme tessellation mode on this benchmark. These are the toughest settings that you can run on this benchmark, so it should really put the hurt on any graphics card.
Benchmark Results: The punishment just wouldn't stop for any of the cards and the Heaven DX11 benchmark set on extreme tessellation is a tough one. Here we can see that the XFX Radeon HD 6850 had little problem staying within the playable FPS range, but come on, we all know this benchmark is an ass kicker.
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Page 1 - XFX Radeon HD 6850 Video Card
Page 2 - XFX Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Packaging Page 3 - A Closer Look At The XFX Radeon HD 6850 Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Batman Arkham Asylum Page 6 - Metro 2033 Page 7 - Alien vs. Predator Page 8 - Left 4 Dead 2 Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Page 10 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Page 11 - 3DMark 11 Page 12 - Furmark 1.8.2 Page 13 - Unigine Heaven Page 14 - Temperature Testing Page 15 - Overclocking Page 16 - My thoughts on the XFX Radeon HD 6850 |
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