Review – AMD Radeon HD 6850: Same Technology, Lower Price

Test Platform

We brought in some other graphics card for comparison purposes. It would be interesting to see where exactly the HD 6850 sits among its adversaries in terms of performance. The complete list of hardwares used in our test is as follows.

• Prosesor : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics card : 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
• Driver : Catalyst 10.10 WHQL; NVIDIA 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