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AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 October 2010, 03:00 4.5

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, HiS Graphics

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Just Cause 2

We've recently begun playing this game and like it a lot. Keeping things comparable, NVIDIA-specific features such as the Bokeh filter and water rendering are turned off.

The Radeon HD 5850 sandwich continues in our first game. Sapphire's HD 6850 has the edge on a default-clocked GTX 460 1,024MB.

Meanwhile, Radeon HD 6870 comes in just shy of GeForce GTX 470 in the lower-resolution tests. It just beats it at 2,560x1,600.

The older-generation Radeon HD 4870 really feels the pinch at 2,560x1,600. The smaller framebuffer takes its toll on performance.