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XFX HD6850 CrossFireX review

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When paired in Crossfire, the HD6850's push out a staggering 108 frames per second average, falling just slightly behind the GTX460 SLI solution. The single £155 HD6850 falls in line with the last generation HD5850 … not bad considering the HD5850 cost £250 when initially released.

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21 comments

  1. These look the nicest boards, love that cooler design. performance is great from the 6850. seems to be the better overclocker of the two series.

  2. Wow nvidia just got owned again. although the gtx460 is still competitive, I like these better, power consumption rocks.

  3. Excellent value for money, see it on Scan for 133.

  4. HD6850 seems the massively scalable of the two, those overclocks are fantastic.

  5. I ilke the way they have copied the look of the black edition 4GB 5970.

  6. These look beautiful. what a classy looking design.

  7. What a great price, less than two 5770s for 30% moer performance.

  8. Great cards, shame about the lack of OC tool, I wonder will sapphire make this available on their site for everyone to use?

  9. Great article, very informative

  10. this new range is impressive. good power consumption

  11. Looking forward to the high end cards if this is a sign !

  12. cant wait to see the 6970 next year

  13. the price is brilliant, crossfirex here I come. any ideas who has them to buy ?

  14. A nice card indeed. At the moment I have a HD4870, but I’m thinking of upgrading. The price of the GTX460 also lowered quit significantly to like 140 EUR, so I’m still in doubt. HD6850 is slightly above that price, but I have a Crosshair 4 Formula. It would be nice to run Crossfire like in the review.

    @ Zardon
    btw Zardon, is your first name ‘Allan’? Since I think I’ve seen you before on another website 😛

  15. XFX cards have been fixed with 1120 cores instead of 960 which is stated which means that these results are unacceptable and you wont get this perforamce out of the 6850s. WTF

  16. These are 960. GPUz screenshot in the review.

  17. oh yeah rofl sorry. that means the 6850 cf and 460 sli are in dead heat wow!

  18. Great review guys. The scalling is awesome.

  19. I did the calcutlations and the stock 460 sli beats the 6850 cf by 4.8% and metro and mafia which the 6850s beat the 460s support physx which makes it more complicated favorign teh 460s. The 460s are better performers but the 6850s are still very competetive and eats less power and new drivers would increase performance so…. its still a war. Great review

  20. not including 3dmark vantage bcse its not a game and it fluctautes

  21. sry 4.8 frames not 4.8 % lol