HIS AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB – Our First Review

Test Platform

We plugged the HIS AMD Radeon HD 6870 on our benchmark rig and throw in a couple of adversaries to see how this new card stacks up against the current competition. The complete list of hardwares used is as follows.

• Processors : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics cards : HIS AMD Radeon HD 6870; AMD Radeon HD 5830; NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB; NVIDIA GTX 460 768 MB; NVIDIA GTS 450 OC
• Memory : 3×1GB Kingston KHX16000D3T1K3/3GX
• Harddisk : Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB (32 MB Cache)
• Power Supply : Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050 Watt
• Heatsink : Gelid Tranquilo
• Monitor : Philips 221E
• Input : Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
• Drivers : Catalyst 10.10 beta; Catalyst 10.9; Forceware 260.89

Test Results

First-Person Shooter Games

Alien VS Predator

Setting : DirectX 11; Texture Quality – Very High; Shadow Quality – High; SSAO – On; AF x16; No-MSAA

LEFT4DEAD

Setting : No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

Metro 2033

Setting : DirectX 11; Advance DOF, No-Advanced PhysX, MSAA x4, AF x16