Testseek.com have collected 123 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe.
October 2010
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The editors liked
Fast
Decent cooler
Overclocks well
Price
Loaded with ports
Excellent price-to-performance ratio
Great power efficiency
Terrific performance for the price. Improved technologies and video quality compared with previous-generation cards.
Great performance for the price
Stereoscopic-3D support with compatible monitors and HDTVs
Five ports makes connecting multiple monitors easier
Modest mainstream DX11 graphics performance
Barts GPU Introduces stereoscopic 3D functionality
Reduced heat output enables very quiet cooling fan
Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case
UVD3 Adds multiview CODEC for 3D Bluray playback
Improves DisplayPort to 1.2 with display chaining
Supports CrossFire functionality
The editors didn't like
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Fledgling 3D support
Not consistently more powerful than Nvidia's competing card. Only one dual-link DVI port.
Over 9 inches long
Blocks an adjacent slot
High power draw might necessitate power-supply upgrade
Abstract: The basic HIS Radeon HD 6850 is definitely not the model we advise. It’s rather cheap looking and the cooler isn’t very effective, making more noise than other models while not keeping the GPU temperature as low.
Abstract: Both the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 offer great performance for the prices and being able to drive multiple displays with one card via DisplayPort is great. While these cards might not appeal to the enthusiast gamer, they still offer up plenty of power and plenty of features.
Abstract: The Radeon HD 6850 is AMD's sub US$200 entrant in the discrete graphics card market. We have two on the bench to compare, a reference sample from AMD, and the Asus EA6850DirectCU, which is overclocked, has an adjustable core voltage, and is cooled usin...
Fast, Decent cooler, Overclocks well, Price, Loaded with ports
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You can get this card for around 150$ on the market right now and for that price its a bargain! Nvidia has their GTX460 card and ATI now have their 6850 which both perform superb, this card is really a bang for the buck card. The overall performance w...
Abstract: Design Comparison with the reference design, front viewAMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MBReference AMD Radeon HD 5870Comparison with the reference design, rear viewAMD Radeon HD 6850 1024MBReference AMD Radeon HD 5850AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MBReference AMD Radeo...
The 6850 seems to be a legitimate contender for the budget conscious gamer market. The price is very good for the performance that you will receive from the 6850 and the extra additions of the Display Port 1.2, faster tessellation, geometry throughput...
Abstract: According to statistical data collected by the Steam system, multi-GPU configurations are very far from popular. They are only present in computers of less than 1 percent of all gamers. Interestingly, 96% of such configurations are based on Nvidia’s SL...
A card that is an evolution of a successful series of cards, with competitive pricing cannot be bad. The 6800 series has attacked in NVIDIA’s GTX 460 turf quite strongly. It has motivated NVIDIA to already slash prices of the two most threatened cards,...
