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AMD Radeon HD 6850 Shootout - Mainstream Slugfest

By Kenny Yeo - 14 Dec 2010

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 is usually a very competitive benchmark and on the lowest resolution of 1280 x 800, it was impossible to separate the cards. However, as we increased resolution up to 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200, we began to see a noticeable gulf in performance between the cards. Nevertheless, even at the highest resolution, all the cards managed very playable frame rates.

On Battlefield Bad Company 2, the differences in performance was more noticeable. The three cards from Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire sporting reference clocked speeds all recorded nearly identical frame rates, while the slightly overclocked ASUS card was a bit faster. Lastly, the three factory overclocked "extreme" cards from PowerColor, Sapphire (Toxic Edition) and XFX were the quickest and again, because of their similar clock speeds, recorded frame rates that were very comparable. Another interesting note is the performance of the overclocked cards were matching the GeForce GTX 460 on this test.

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