XFX HD6850 Black Edition Review @ 1ghz : World First Exclusive!

Unfortunately when using the Catalyst Control Center we are limited to 850mhz and we wanted to try and push the card further. We therefore decided to try the new beta of the Sapphire TriXX software which worked great, even allowing us to increase voltage to 1300.

A quick overview of the XFX Black Edition shows that the card fan is set to 53% out of the box, around 15% higher than the reference solution we reviewed last week.

Raising the card voltage to 1300, we managed to squeeze an incredible 1025 mhz on the core and 1175mhz (4700mhz effective) from the memory! We were stunned to see 1ghz+ on the HD6850 core less than a week after initial launch.

A whopping 2,500 point increase in 3DMark Vantage after our overclock, pushing the HD6850 Black Edition past the MSI Talon Attack GTX460 performance levels.

A six frame per second increase in Unigine Heaven Benchmark is a huge increase, reflected with the massive overhead via this particular core.

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