Powercolor HD6850 Single Slot CrossfireX Review

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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The two HD6850's are almost neck and neck with Sapphire's overclocked HD5850 Xtreme cards in Crossfire, scoring around 200 points less. The overclocked Zotac GTX580 AMP! Edition by comparison scores 6,256 points … highlighting a switch in the performance leadership from the previous Direct X 10 oriented 3DMark Vantage. AMD are strong with Direct X 11.

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