Legit Video Card Reviews

ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card
Date: Thu, May 19, 2011 - 05:00 AM
Written By: Brian Giacoletti -
Share:

3DMark 11


Asus Radeon HD 6870 Video Card 3D Mark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Asus Radeon HD 6870 Video Card 3D Mark 11 Settings

We ran our tests in both Extreme and Performance mode just to give you an idea of how the card would run in both environments.

3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Asus Radeon HD 6870 Video Card 3D Mark Extreme

3DMark 11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Asus Radeon HD 6870 Video Card 3D Mark Performance


Benchmark Results: As we all know, 3DMark 11 is an extremely tough benchmark on video cards, even the most modern and up to date video cards have a hard time running through its gauntlet of benchmarks. But, as we can see from our results, we were able to score well over the 4000 mark in both the Performance Preset and the Extreme Preset.

Next Page - Furmark 1.8.2


Review Index
Page 1 - The ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card
Page 2 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Packaging
Page 3 - A Closer Look At The ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
Page 6 - Metro 2033
Page 7 - Aliens 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 2.5
Page 14 - Temperature Testing
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Overclocking
Page 17 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Final Thoughts