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Sapphire Radeon HD6850 and HD6870 Review

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The contributors of Shader Toy are all famous demomakers and their shaders are real gems. It’s just amazing to see what can clever people do with some sin/cos and other math tricks. ShaderToyMark can be seen as a modest tribute to their fantastic and sometime unreal work.

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All cards deliver high frame rates with this benchmark. The HD6870 trails the overclocked eVGA FTW, but beats the reference clocked card. The HD6850 is only 9 points behind the reference clocked GTX460.

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  1. Your 6850 have 1120 sharders. o_o”

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  2. these are really good cards, love the performance and price.

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  3. Excellent boards those, really look the part and performance is awesome. overclocking is great !

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  4. Shit… haha 6850 is a killer card and guess what? its right in the price range im looking at 😀
    Only thing i can say reading other reviews is that the 6850 reference cooler is pretty weak. These sapphire cards look great for the money 😀 (6850) will reserve judgement til i seem overclocked 6870s

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  5. Killer card indeed, couldnt agree more.

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  6. HD6870 is good, but I dont like reference designs, too noisy/hot/ I will wait for sapphires or XFXs custom cooling one.

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  7. HD6870 is the one I would get, but not reference version. will wait a month for vapor X or toxic version.

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  8. 6870 reference design is a waste, waiting on other solutions

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  9. the hd6870 isn’t my first choice until they get third party products out of the stable,

    Its always the way with launches, but its weird AMD have let their partners make third party solutions for 6850s

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  10. over clocked HD6870s might be hard to get out the door with such poor over clocks on the core. seems both boards max out around 950

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  11. While these cards aren’t awe inspiring, when you look at the price 150 for a 6850. about the same as the 5770. 25% more performance, looks good.

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  12. those overclocks on the 50 are great. id say overclocked versions will be out really soon. vapor x anyone ?

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  13. As JC stated, this 6850 has 1120 shaders instead of the default 960…

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  14. The bottom gpuz screenshot is for the 6870

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  15. I get the same 3dmark vantage score as this HD6850. I was hoping I might even up with a 1120 shader version but sadly not 🙁

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  16. @ Jon

    I saw in another review that they managed to get the Sapphire 6870’s core clock to 1000mHz stable. I’m sure if put under water, these cards will have a bit more overclocking headroom anyway.

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  17. asdaSd

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