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

3DMark 11 is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.

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Futuremark's synthetic benchmarks clearly prefer Sapphire's 1GB 7850 over HIS' 2GB competitor. The 1GB Sapphire Dual-X model takes another narrow lead, but as with 3DMark Vantage, the very slim – 0.9% – difference is likely to be related to the benchmark's accuracy.

3DMark 11's more up-to-date testing parameters allow HIS' 7770 IceQ X Turbo to compete more closely to AMD's previous-generation HD 6870.

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