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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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Crysis Warhead

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

Crysis Warhead is a DirectX 10 game based on the same engine as the original Crysis, but optimized (it runs under DirectX 9.0c when installed on Windows XP).

We used the HardwareOC Crysis Warhead Benchmark Tool to collect the data for this test. We ran this program at three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, all at medium image quality (16x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering) and using the Airfield demo. The results below are the number of frames per second achieved by each video card.

XFX Radeon 6850

Crysis Warhead – Medium 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 35 25.0%
Radeon HD 6870 32 14.3%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 31 10.7%
GeForce GTX 465 30 7.1%
Radeon HD 5850 30 7.1%
Radeon HD 6850 28  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 27 -3.6%

XFX Radeon 6850

Crysis Warhead – Medium 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 31 29.2%
Radeon HD 6870 27 12.5%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 26 8.3%
Radeon HD 5850 26 8.3%
GeForce GTX 465 25 4.2%
Radeon HD 6850 24  
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 22 -8.3%

XFX Radeon 6850

Crysis Warhead – Medium 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 21 31%
Radeon HD 6870 19 19%
Radeon HD 5850 17 6%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 16 0%
Radeon HD 6850 16  
GeForce GTX 465 15 -6%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 13 -19%
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