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Test Setup
To find out which is the best Radeon HD 6850, we’ll be using our X58 setup with the following specifications:
- Intel Core i7-975 (3.33GHz)
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard
- 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 G.Skill memory in triple channel mode
- Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive
- Windows 7 Ultimate
Clock speeds are usually a good indication of how a card will perform, and like some of the cards we've amassed in this article, we are expecting the reference clocked Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire card to perform similarly and also provide a baseline reference. The ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU with its mildly overclocked core should be a tad faster, but it will be no match for the PowerColor, Sapphire (Toxic Edition) and XFX cards which have been considerable bumps to their clock speeds.
Here's a table detailing the cards' clock speeds.
Cards | Core Clock Speed | Memory Clock Speed |
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ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU | 790MHz | 4000MHz DDR |
Gigabyte HD 6850 | 775MHz | 4000MHz DDR |
MSI R6850 | 775MHz | 4000MHz DDR |
PowerColor PCS+ HD 6850 | 820MHz | 4400MHz DDR |
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 | 775MHz | 4000MHz DDR |
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Edition | 820MHz | 4400MHz DDR |
XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition | 820MHz | 4400MHz DDR |
The full list of cards tested and driver versions used as below:
- ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU (Catalyst 10.10)
- Gigabyte HD 6850 (Catalyst 10.10)
- MSI R6850-PM2DIGD5 (Catalyst 10.10)
- PowerColor PCS+ HD 6850 (Catalyst 10.10)
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 (Catalyst 10.10)
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Edition (Catalyst 10.10)
- XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition (Catalyst 10.10)
- AMD Radeon HD 6870 (Catalyst 10.10)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (ForceWare 258.96)
The list of benchmark used are as follows:
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
- Crysis Warhead
- Far Cry 2
- Warhammer: Dawn of War 2
- Battlefield Bad Company 2
- “Heaven" from Unigine v2.1
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
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