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XFX Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Review

Let’s see the performance of the new Radeon HD 6850 from XFX, which follows the AMD reference design and competes with the GeForce GTX 460 768 MB.

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Aliens vs. Predator

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The XFX Radeon HD 6850
  • 3. The XFX Radeon HD 6850 (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

Aliens vs. Predator is a DirectX 11 game that makes full use of tessellation and advanced shadow rendering. We used the Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark Tool developed by Rebellion. This program reads its configuration from a text file (our configuration files can be found here). We ran this program at 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600 resolutions, with low texture settings, x8 anisotropic filtering and x4 anti-aliasing.

XFX Radeon HD 6850

Aliens vs. Predator 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 52 50.3%
Radeon HD 5850 41.3 19.4%
Radeon HD 6870 41 18.5%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 37.8 9.2%
GeForce GTX 465 35.5 2.6%
Radeon HD 6850 34.6  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 30.7 -11.3%

XFX Radeon HD 6850

Aliens vs. Predator 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 42.5 50.7%
Radeon HD 5850 33.6 19.1%
Radeon HD 6870 33.4 18.4%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 30.2 7.1%
GeForce GTX 465 28.5 1.1%
Radeon HD 6850 28.2  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 24.5 -13.1%

XFX Radeon HD 6850

Aliens vs. Predator 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 26.2 52.3%
Radeon HD 5850 20.6 19.8%
Radeon HD 6870 20.4 18.6%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 18.1 5.2%
GeForce GTX 465 17.5 1.7%
Radeon HD 6850 17.2  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 14.5 -15.7
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