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MSI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review

Let’s see the performance of the new Radeon HD 6870 from MSI, which follows the AMD reference design and competes with the GeForce GTX 465.

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Far Cry 2

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The MSI Radeon HD 6870
  • 3. The MSI Radeon HD 6870 (Cont’d)
  • 4. Main Specifications
  • 5. How We Tested
  • 6. 3DMark Vantage Professional
  • 7. Call of Duty 4
  • 8. Crysis Warhead
  • 9. Far Cry 2
  • 10. Aliens vs. Predator
  • 11. Lost Planet 2
  • 12. Conclusions

Far Cry 2 is based on an entirely new game engine called Dunia, which is DirectX 10 when played under Windows Vista with a DirectX 10 compatible video card.

We used the benchmarking utility that comes with this game, setting image quality to High (x8 anti-aliasing) and running the “Ranch Long” demo three times. The results below are expressed in frames per second and are an arithmetic average of the three results collected.

MSI Radeon HD 6870

FarCry 2 – Maximum 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 109.8 8%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 104.9 4%
Radeon HD 6870 101.2  
Radeon HD 5850 94.0 -7%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 93.9 -7%
GeForce GTX 465 90.4 -11%
Radeon HD 6850 88.6 -12%

MSI Radeon HD 6870

FarCry 2 – Maximum 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 98.4 10%
Radeon HD 6870 89.4  
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 88.9 -1%
Radeon HD 5850 83.3 -7%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 78.5 -12%
Radeon HD 6850 78.1 -13%
GeForce GTX 465 75.5 -16%

MSI Radeon HD 6870

FarCry 2 – Maximum 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 70.2 13%
Radeon HD 6870 62.1  
Radeon HD 5850 58.7 -5%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 57.8 -7%
Radeon HD 6850 54.0 -13%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 50.1 -19%
GeForce GTX 465 49.0 -21%
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