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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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The Test System


All tests were performed on a freshly formatted system using the latest Catalyst 11.1 drivers from AMD. All system drivers and the BIOS were all up to date. The memory was run in dual channel with 8-8-8-24 1T timings and nothing was overclocked; everything was running at stock speeds.

XFX Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Test Rig

 

The Test System

 

XFX Radeon HD 6850 Video Card GPUZ

Disclaimer: Although the GPU-Z screen shot shows me as using the Catalyst 10.12 drivers, they are in fact the 11.1a drivers. They are displayed as 10.12 because of a known problem in the new 11.1 and 11.1a driver that displays the wrong driver version. So just to be clear all of the tests and benchmarks were run using the 11.1a driver with the exception of the overclocking section where I used the 11.2 drivers because I had already upgraded to them before I decided to add an overclocking page to the review.

 

Video Cards Used

 

  • XFX Radeon HD 6850 820 MHz Core/1200 MHz Memory
  • XFX Radeon HD 6850 775 MHz Core/1000 MHz Memory
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-x Crossfire 860 MHz Core/1200 MHz Memory
  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-x 860 MHz Core/1200 MHz Memory

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Review Index
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