Sapphire Radeon HD6850 and HD6870 Review

Mafia II is a gritty drama which chronicles the rise of World War II veteran Vito Scaletta, the son of Sicilian immigrants. As the game progresses, Vito will join the Falcone Crime Family and become a made man. There are 15 chapters in the game, connected into one storyline.

We tested at 1080p with fullscreen: on, antialiasing:on , Anisotrophic filtering: 16x, Shadow Quality: High, Ambient Occlusion: on, Geometry Detail: High and APEX PhysX: off.

The Sapphire HD6870 outperforms the previous flagship HD5870, marginally. The HD5770 CFx configuration scores well in Mafia 2, leading the pack by a couple of frames per second. The fastest single solution card in this test is the GTX460 Talon which we clocked to a whopping 1000mhz, so it would be expected. The HD5870 managed to outperform all of the other overclocked GTX460 cards however which is impressive, considering this is a reference board.

The HD6850 beat all of the reference clocked GTX460's by at least a couple of frames per second.

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