Mid-Range AMD Graphics Card Round-Up (HIS 7770 GHz / HIS 7850 / Sapphire 7850)

According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.

We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting to push today's gaming hardware.

The 7850 cards offer identical performance in Battlefield 3. We were quite surprised to see Sapphire's 1GB card's minimum frame rates keep pace with HIS' 2GB version, especially considering the fact that Battlefield 3 can chomp well over a gigabyte of VRAM at 1080P.

HIS' 7770 GHz Edition IceQ X Turbo does an admirable job at keeping pace with the 6870. There is a difference of 8% between each card's minimum frame rates.

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