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Review: AMD Radeon HD 6850 face-off - ASUS vs Sapphire vs PowerColor

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 November 2010, 09:08 3.5

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), PowerColor (6150.TWO), AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire

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Call of Duty: Black Ops and Crysis Warhead

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops set a new record has the highest-grossing entertainment release in history. The title is benchmarked with 4x AA and 16x AF, along with other high-quality settings.

Black Ops is a DX9 port that runs smoothly on all high-end cards. Like Civ 5, the game is subsystem-limited for the most part, although there are one or two levels where the GPU gets a good workout. We've used the S.O.G level and FRAPS'd a 30-second section.

The results show that all 13 cards are able to run the game smoothly at the 1,920x1,080 resolution. Looking at how it balances out, the title runs faster on equivalently-priced NVIDIA hardware.

Crysis Warhead

The one game that brings all GPUs to their knees, Crysis is set to Gamer quality and benchmarked through the Frost map.

The faster Radeon HD 6850s - Sapphire and PowerColor - keep in close order to a well-overclocked GTX 460 1GB in Crysis Warhead.