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

Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10. This is the first edition where the feature-restricted, free of charge version could not be used any number of times. 1280×1024 resolution was used with performance settings.

Sapphire's 7850 Dual-X graphics card takes an early, albeit very narrow, lead of 1.1% in 3DMark Vantage. This is quite surprising, given the card's 1GB frame buffer as opposed to the HIS 7850 IceQ's 2GB, but the very small 1.1% difference could be attributed to errors in the benchmark and testing procedure.

HIS' overclocked 7770 GHz Edition graphics card struggles to keep pace with AMD's mid-range king of 2011, the HD 6870.

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