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Exactly the same ‘Core' artwork as the XFX R7770 box. No images of the R7850 on the front of the box which is unfortunate, as they are such an attractively designed solution.
XFX bundle a lot of literature with their cards, but sadly no converters or games with this one.
The XFX R7850 is longer than the R7770, built around a similar black PCB and black and silver metal cooler with XFX branding. It is a dual slot cooler.
The R7850 is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration. Ideal if you find you need more rendering power at a later date.
The R7850 takes power from a single 6 pin PCI power cable.
Underneath the shroud there is a separate circular Zalman style cooler, built around a single thick copper base and heatpipe which is bent in a circle through two racks of aluminum fins.
The XFX R7850 is built around the Pitcairn core, manufactured on the 28nm process. The core runs at 860mhz and the memory 1,200mhz (4.8gbps effective). AMD's HD7850 is much more powerful than the HD7770, featuring 2GB of GDDR5 memory connected via a 256 bit memory interface. There are 1,024 unifed shaders onboard along with 32 ROP's and 64 TMU's.
Fantastic reading thanks GTX660ti all the way for me !
I have wanted the HD7950 now for quite a while, but cant afford it. ive decided to wait until the next gen, later this year. good article, shows the good GTX660ti performance well.
Im very happy with my HD7870, will do me for some time, and when it doesn’t ill pick one up cheap to CF them,
Now this will totally affect my decision on buying a vga
GTX670 is great, but GTX660 ti is the bargain right now. I like that Sapphire card though, im sick of fan noise 🙁
Good article, very helpful as im thinking of buying one for my new system soon.
Greg, you might want to look at the Asus Direct CUII version of the GTX660Ti – I got one recently to replace a Gainward GTX260GS and the reduction in fan noise is astonishing.
I agree with Andrew. Even though the Gainward GFX cards are very durable, but if you want high quality Nvidia cards that are also silent you should look at the ASUS cards with the Direct CUII cooling solution. It’s really no comparison.
Kitguru said: “Today’s article won’t be featuring the AMD HD7970, HD7990 or Nvidia GTX680 or GTX 690/Titan. Not because we don’t like them, but because very few people can afford to buy them.”
This seems very disingenuous. There’s hardly any difference between the avg. 670 and 7970 prices. Does put nVidia at the top of the charts with the O/C’d 670 though. :
Well its not meant to be disingenuous. the GTX680 is the flagship to battle against the HD7970. If we included the HD7970 then we would need to include the GTX680, sometimes seen for £350.
The point was to try and get a variety of cards and not focus on the flagship single GPU cards.
Bear in mind the GTX670 didn’t get a top award in this test, due to the pricing. The Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X did due to cost, cooling, noise etc.