Testseek.com have collected 27 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 92%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe.
October 2010
Experts 92% 27 Reviews
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Abstract: Sapphire has produced a card with the sole problem being noisier in load than the best models. It is however on sale at a very low price which will certainly make plenty of users ready to ignore this small fault, especially as the GPU temperature remains relatively stable. It will therefore be possible to reduce the fan speed slightly
Abstract: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 hit the market back in October last year and it was one of the first cards from the new AMD`s HD 6000 series. While it sports reference clocks, Sapphire has made a few changes to their design that separates this card f...
Performance across the board is down. This isn’t a surprise as the card carries less Shaders which is only going to have a negative impact on performance. There’s one thing we needed to really know today, though; have any games gone from “playable”,...
Modest mainstream DX11 graphics performance, Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality, Reduced heat output enables very quiet cooling fan, UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback, Improves DisplayPort to 1.2 with display chaining, Supports CrossFire functionality,
Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case, Limited initial AMD HD3D product support, Fails to fix anisotropic texture filtering, Barts GPU yields minimal overclock
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The new Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 is a 'must have' for anyone that is building a new system. If you currently have anything at or below the HD 5830 then this HD 6850 will also make for a great upgrade! One would think that this new card with it's "6850"...
The major point to glean here is that the 6850 technically isn't a successor to the 5850; we saw the performance is almost identical. The rationale should become more apparent as AMD releases more models, but the 5850 was more of a premium gaming card,...
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It is a great time to be an enthusiast as what we define as "mainstream GPUs" these days are comparatively much more power than the mainstream GPUs introduced two generations ago. With the Sapphire HD 6850 entering the market at $179 and performing cl...
Runs very cool, Good mix of ports: HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort, DVIs, 1GB of GDDR5 memory, Good performance for DirectX 11 games with eyecandies enabled, Single 6 pin connector, Low power consumption and heat output, Good price to performance ratio, Good overclocker, Small size, which should fit in most systems
Price
Our tests show that the card offers about 80% of the performance of the HD5870, yet it costs a little more than half of what the HD5870 is asking, making it one of the best cards for those who are budget conscious. For anyone who plays game at resolut...
Lots of connectors, Great performance, Very quiet fan and good cooling, Nice list of feature upgrades from the 5850,
None that I found
When we first got word of the HD 6850 and HD 6870 we thought it would be a completely new card built from the ground up, but all it is, is simply a refresh with a little higher core speed, better efficiency, and some other added features. The weird na...
Getting your head around the fact that the HD 6850 doesn’t replace the HD 5850 takes a bit of time. If you go in thinking that this is going to be an upgrade from your HD 5850 you’re going to be disappointed. This is ultimately what would mark the b...
