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March has just been an unreal month with the amount of launches we've seen. We saw both AMD and NVIDIA release extremely fast Dual GPU models along with NVIDIA releasing a new mid-range one. If you thought it was going to quiet down, you'd be wrong, because April is looking just as crazy with more releases from NVIDIA and AMD along with partners releasing fancy versions of popular models.
Graphic cards
This past 12 months has seen a lot of new products for AMD in terms of processors, the Fusion platform and of course graphics cards. The HD 6870 has been a top seller for them since its initial launch and have kept a steady growth of sales even with higher end competitor cards being released. As with most graphics cards that are released, a reference design of sorts is used to show the performance and a custom design card follows on later down the line. The HD 6870 saw a massive boost in sales when custom coolers were strapped to the cards and with HIS branding their IceQ X fan and heatsink, it proves our point to the letter.
Barts XT, der Chip der Radeon HD 6870, ist nunmehr ein halbes Jahr auf dem Markt und hat seitdem das Gleichgewicht in der Performance-Klasse erheblich verändert. Nun wollen wir anhand der HIS Radeon HD 6870 überprüfen, wie sich die Karte mit neuem Preis gegen die Konkurrenz schlägt und ob ein Wechsel aus der alten MidRange-Klasse sich lohnen würde, oder ob doch die langsam auslaufende Radeon HD 5870 die bessere Wahl wäre. Mit der HIS Radeon HD 6870 haben wir eine Grafikkarte im Test, die der Referenz von AMD entspricht und somit stellvertretend für die meisten verkauften Radeon HD 6870 gesehen werden kann.
We’ve looked at the HD 6850 in Crossfire and that’s all great, but now it’s time to get down to business and while the HD 6870 isn’t going to be the top single GPU card from AMD (that’s reserved for the HD 6970), the aggressive pricing structure of the model means that going CF could be a very good option.
HIS has come out fast this time with a pre overclocked card and to be honest, they need to. AMD-only partners like them need to make sure the interest is constantly there for AMD based video cards and they figure the best way to do this is get a pre overclocked model to the market sooner rather than later.
Graphic cards
The radeon 6850 hit the market in October last year and was a big step up for AMD in regards to developing new technologies and harnessing older architecture by improving on its already successful reign.
If you want to play the top DX11 game these days a high-end card is a must. The HIS Radeon HD 6850 Turbo with IceQ X cooling is a really nice card at a really reasonable price. This card should keep up with the other cards in its class in the performance benchmarks, but stay way cooler than most of them since it uses an aftermarket GPU cooler. We put it to the test against several other AMD Radeon HD 6850 video cards to see which comes out on top!
So we started with the boring stuff and checked out the HD 6850 and HD 6870 on their lonesome against a bunch of other cards. We began to have a bit of fun when we started pairing the cards together. There’s no denying, though, that for most people Crossfire isn’t an option, be it too expensive or just not really feasible.
We've welcomed the new HD 6800 series with open arms and while the HD 6870 might be the faster of the two cards, the HD 6850 represents some great value for money. When we add a second one into the mix we do see that the overall value does dip slightly, but the performance gains are really strong.
Multi card setups continue not to be the biggest area in video cards. It probably never will be; you’ve got the people that don’t understand how it works and simply people who have no interest in running multi card setups. In saying that, though, there’s still a large group of us that love multi card setups and to be honest, NVIDIA has really spiced the category up lately thanks to the release of the GTX 460.
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