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Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 Away
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:18 pmby (TKC)TheCrimsonStar
See for yourself...here's the article. Amazing thing is the 6870 is less than $300.
http://techgage.com/article/amd_radeon_hd_6870_hd_6850_in_crossfirex/and if you're too lazy to read the article (
) then here's the benchmark chart for their most graphics-intensive game that was tested: Metro 2033
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:32 pmby earth7man
This is what I hate about computer stuff ....only had these 470's for 6 months and they're already garbage
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:38 pmby (TKC) brownman350
Every body know AMD/ATI is the best
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:39 pmby ME.
From what i see, thats in cross fire. But a single card cant beat a 480.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:42 pmby ME.
and also, according to that, its no better then the 5870.
One more thing, thats using DX10, Nvidia still owns in DX11 performance.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:56 amby DonJuan
ME. wrote:From what i see, thats in cross fire. But a single card cant beat a 480.
Except I can buy two of those for, roughly, the same price of one 480.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:13 amby KillerGt1
DonJuan wrote:ME. wrote:From what i see, thats in cross fire. But a single card cant beat a 480.
Except I can buy two of those for, roughly, the same price of one 480.
Which was the point the OP was making :-)
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:35 amby (TKC)TheCrimsonStar
DonJuan wrote:ME. wrote:From what i see, thats in cross fire. But a single card cant beat a 480.
Except I can buy two of those for, roughly, the same price of one 480.
my point exactly. You also pay around $375 for a 5870, and ~$250 for a 6870, and the 5870 has ~3 fps better than 6870 for most games. I'd rather go with the 6870 than pay another $100 for a 3 fps boost. and I just looked at the GTX 480s, they're around $500. You can just get 2 6870's and kick the Gtx 480 in the butt without the extra power consumption and high temps.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:28 amby (TKC) Slevin
FYI AMD reordered they naming system for some reason
6870 = 2nd Gen 5850
6850 = 2nd Gen 5830
2nd Gen 5870 -> ??? Who knows buts its going to Kick Nvidia back to the Stone Age.
2nd Gen 5970 -> Who Knows
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:19 pmby Foffkillz
(TKC) brownman350 wrote:Every body know AMD/ATI is the best
+1
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:53 pmby (TKC) brownman350
I agree with you.
DonJuan wrote:Except I can buy two of those for, roughly, the same price of one 480.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:15 amby [VAG] *The Atheist*
I will probably pick up a 6870 in January. I might just double up on my 5770's though. I will wait for the 6900 series, and evaluate the situation then. I am upgrading to an i7 in March, so new mobo, processor, GPU, and at least 4GB more of memory (8GB total). Hoping to get it all done for about $600.
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:46 pmby (TKC) brownman350
I'm gonna wait the 6900 series also
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:25 amby bryster126
The only reason the scores are that high is because of the 6800's amazing performance with high-tesselation.
It just owns in that category. I bet if they turned tessalation off, then the other cards would score way higher.
A 6870 is less powerful than a 5870.... It's about as powerful as a gtx 460 or 450
Re: Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Crossfire Blow GTX 470 and 480 A
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Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:09 amby theazninvasion68
Am I the only Nvidia fan here? hmm.