Reviewers Liked
- Good price/performance; efficient; excellent warranty
Reviewers Didn't Like
- A little noisy; one fewer display connector than reference design
XFX Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
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To be honest we were rather unforgiving of the HD 6850, at launch it was pricing itself almost out of the market. It was going toe-to-toe with Nvidia's 1GB GTX 460 which, at the time, just about had it pipped in performance terms. It was also a...
By TechRadar onA very noisy cooling solution and basic overall performance make the XFX Radeon HD 6850 a difficult pill to swallow....
By ITP.net onThe HD 6850 overall is a very impressive card, the performance figures hovers around the 5850 in some tests. However, keep in mind the 6850 was not made to replace the 5850, but rather the 5830. Also, the card does brilliantly in the facets of power...
By Tech2 onXFX Radeon HD 6850 Power Consumption and Thermals Published on 6th November 2010 by Clive Webster Power Consumption (Idle and Gaming)Putting realistic, repeatable load on a GPU to get a decent idea of its real world power consumption and thermal...
By Bit-tech.net onIf you’ve ever wanted to own a supercar for the price of a family saloon – then the Radeon HD 6850 is the answer. It’s great straight out of the box. The turbo charger kicks in when you overclock it and it’s nothing short of...
By Kitguru.net onAs we explained in our introduction to AMD’s brand-new Radeon HD series, which you can read here, the Radeon HD 6850 is based on an entirely new GPU architecture optimized for DirectX 11 games. But don’t be confused by AMD’s branding:...
By Maximum PC onXFX obviously chose to prioritise temperatures when it was calibrating its cooler. While you can correct this manually to reduce noise levels in load, this won’t reduce the prohibitive price of this non-overclocked model that is delivered without any...
By BeHardware onThe new Radeon HD 6850 was faster than its main competitor, the GeForce GTX 460 with 768 MB, in almost all games and simulations we ran. Therefore, if you are looking for an economic solution to the Radeon HD 5850, the Radeon HD 6850 is a terrific...
By Hardware Secrets onEvery year ATI and NVIDIA release new video cards for the high-end, the mainstream and the value segments. It is a constant struggle with new chips being designed and released. Generally AMD has released a new architecture every two years with a...
By Motherboards.org onXFX a visiblement fait le choix des températures lors de la calibration de son ventirad. S’il est possible de corriger cela manuellement pour réduire les nuisances sonores en charge, cela ne réduira pas le prix prohibitif de ce modèle non-overclocké et...
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