Guru3d 6870/6850 review

Lorien

Lorien

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Holy crap! Nice find, my computer is failing at downloading the htmls. so I will attempt print screens instead. How do you print screen a whole web page exclusively?
 
I'm loading the pages but the images of graphs aren't loading...guess I'll just have to read :p
 
Well, I know the conclusion, but other than that......... I guess someone is rushing to take the reviews down.
 
Ooops. I love when this happens. No more early goodies for Guru3D.

Looking at Guru3D's philosophy, I think NVIDIA's choice to clock the stock 460 so low is going to really bite them this round. I bet overclocked, all of these cards are damn close.
 
I do know they gave two thumbs up to anyone considering crossfire........Meh.
 
Don't panic. I have come to your rescue from the interwebnets
I fat finger closed some tabs trying to save multiple pages as fast as I could and couldn't reload them but I have pages 1-5 and 13 till the end (23). Page 20 with the graph of the Vantage benches didn't load either
 
wow overclocking was a joke on the 6870 going from 900/4200 to 954/4344. that's the weakest overclock I have ever seen over standard factory clocks. I cant get the 6850 overclocking page to come up though.
 
Lorien said:
Don't panic. I have come to your rescue from the interwebnets
I fat finger closed some tabs trying to save multiple pages as fast as I could and couldn't reload them but I have pages 1-5 and 13 till the end (23). Page 20 with the graph of the Vantage benches didn't load either
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Yes some of the benchmarks are saved! And curse fat fingers, it gets us all sometimes :p
 
good writeup. It sounds like AMD's '3D vision' is in some trouble, hopefully they actually put some resources into it instead of letting nvidia take that market segment. Like it or not, the technology wont advance unless companies are willing to dump some cash into R&D

The new GPU's look decent but they don't perform nearly as well as I hoped they would :\
 
Cliffnotes? Can't do media-fire at work (blocked). Interested in relative 460/470 to 6850/6870 as well as heat/noise/power consumption comparatively.
 
ragejg said:
6850 looks like HD 5830, and I mean that in a good way.
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Not the best comparison. The 5830 was widely considered to be priced to high and not fast enough for its intended audience. Most people just got a 5770 or moved up to a 5850.
 
Someone offered to mirror the pages, please post a link so I can update the OP
 
Comprehensive 1 click for the lazy:

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<--Battlefield: BC 2
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<--Crysis Warhead
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<--Metro 2033
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<-- Modern Warfare 2
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<-- Dirt 2
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<--DBA
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<--Full Watt

Crossfire scaling Battlefield:
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More CrossfireX scaling in FC2, Crysis Warhead (just below GTX 480 sli impressive) , Anno 1404

http://www.pohrani.com/f/3B/VD/2oothA3u/rez.jpg
 
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Whelp, AMD definitely succeeded.......It can even be argued that the 6870 is better than GTX 470 in performance, and that's not even factoring that it's cooler and calmer.........

AMD= BALLLIN!
 
Guru3D might as well be getting DDOS'd and we wouldn't notice the difference right now lol.
 
to be honest, their review seems kinda crappy...

I'll wait for [H]...
 
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