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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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3DMark Vantage Professional

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

3DMark Vantage measures Shader 4.0 (i.e., DirectX 10) performance and supports PhysX, a programming interface developed by Ageia (now part of NVIDIA) to transfer physics calculations from the system CPU to the video card GPU in order to increase performance. Mechanical physics is the basis for calculations about the interaction of objects. For example, if you shoot, what exactly will happen to the object when the bullet hits it? Will it break? Will it move? Will the bullet bounce back? Note that since we are considering only the GPU score provided by this program, physics calculations are not taken into account.

We ran this program at three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600. First we used the “Performance” profile, and then we used the “Extreme” profile (basically enabling anti-aliasing at 4x, anisotropic filtering at 16x, and putting all detail settings at their maximum or “extreme” values). The results being compared are the “GPU Scores” achieved by each video card.

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Performance 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 15099 51.3%
Radeon HD 6870 12668 26.9%
Radeon HD 5850 11833 18.6%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 11467 14.9%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 10042 0.6%
Radeon HD 6850 9979  
GeForce GTX 465 9451 -5.3%

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Performance 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 12134 52.5%
Radeon HD 6870 10087 26.7%
Radeon HD 5850 9485 19.2%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 8979 12.8%
Radeon HD 6850 7959  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 7755 -2.6%
GeForce GTX 465 7372 -7.4%

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Performance 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 7079 50.3%
Radeon HD 6870 5877 24.8%
Radeon HD 5850 5594 18.8%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 5092 8.1%
Radeon HD 6850 4709  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 4333 -8.0%
GeForce GTX 465 4191 -11.0%

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Extreme 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 11524 59.9%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 9514 32.0%
Radeon HD 6870 9352 29.7%
Radeon HD 5850 9025 25.2%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 8307 15.2%
GeForce GTX 465 7792 8.1%
Radeon HD 6850 7208  

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Extreme 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 9290 60.2%
Radeon HD 6870 7526 29.8%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 7473 28.8%
Radeon HD 5850 7192 24.0%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 6482 11.8%
GeForce GTX 465 6110 5.3%
Radeon HD 6850 5800  

XFX Radeon 6850

3DMark Vantage – Extreme 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 5519 59.0%
Radeon HD 6870 4407 27.0%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 4312 24.3%
Radeon HD 5850 4298 23.9%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 3517 1.4%
GeForce GTX 465 3515 1.3%
Radeon HD 6850 3470  
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