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Overclocking on reference boards indicates potential speeds a few weeks down the line when AMD partners release their own overclocked solutions with improved coolers and bios configurations.
Our overclocking tests were reasonably successful, although we didnt find huge overhead on the cores, with one card hitting 940mhz and the other 950mhz: 40mhz and 50mhz over reference speeds respectively.
The memory managed to peak at 1140mhz and 1150mhz: 90mhz and 100mhz over reference speeds.
We then wanted to run some tests with our overclocked results, settling on 940mhz core and 1140mhz memory for the final CrossfireX settings.
The overclock results are healthy, Unigine Heaven Benchmark shows a 4fps increase in Crossfire X and 3DMark Vantage scales with 300/600 points extra points in single and dual card mode respectively.
Boring reference design but crossfire performance is fantastic.
Their pricing is fantastic, there are price wars aplenty right now, they seem to be dropping every day !
HD6870 is still disappointing I think compared to 6850, but we will only be able to judge it when third party versions hit the market.
These are down to 179 quid in the UK today !
The pricing is different on every store I visit,. its a bit of a nightmare getting set figures for either 70 or 50.
wicked. two 6850s in CFX for me.
Excellent pricing but 460 is still good
I like the fact they have quietened the card down compared to reference design, however does anyone like the reference cooling? seems madness to buy now when we all know that better coolers will be announced for the same price in a month.
The 6870s are impressive but the 6850’s are bullshit because amd sumbitted 6850 with 1120 cores(6870) instead of 960 or whatever which proves that the results for the 6850 were just liek downclocked 6870s
as I said in the other discussion. not all 6850s had the higher count.
I realised sorry 🙂