SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7850 vs SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 6870 BY ULTIMATE HARDWARE

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SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7850

"The Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 review also featuring the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 uses the Pitcairn GPU at 860Mhz and has 2GB GDDR5 memory running at 4800Mhz. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 has a 256it Memory Interface, 1024 Shader Processors and DirectX 11.1. We will be benchmarking the Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 to the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 using AVP, Battlefield 3, Crysis 2, Dirt 3, Hard Reset, Just Cause 2, Left for Dead 2 and Lost Planet 2."

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7850 FEATURES

Enhanced Multi-GPU Capabilities

"Triple or quadruple gaming power with AMD CrossFireX Multi-GPU technology. Increase your gaming performance up to 2x with AMD CrossFire technology, 2.75x for TriFire configurations, or with QuadFire configurations. With AMD ZeroCore Power Technology, the graphics card in slave modes will be switched off in idle to maximize the power saving."

AMD HD3D Technology

"Enjoy the most immersive experience possible with full support for High Definition Stereoscopic 3D, a technique that presents 2D images (movies, games, photos) in a format that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth when using compatible 3D displays / glasses / software."

Dual-Link DVI

"Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI (Digital Visual Interface), this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz."

Mini-DisplayPort

"Enjoy the benefits of the latest generation display interface, DisplayPort. With the ultra high HD resolution, the graphics card ensures that you are able to support the latest generation of LCD monitors."

28 nm GCN (Graphic Core Next) Architecture

"The new and 28nm GCN Architecture with more efficient process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling a dramatic increase in Processing Power. Crank the settings, devastate your enemies and bear witness to absurdly high frame rates with AMD Radeon HD7000 series graphics card-DirectX 11 has never looked this good. Maximum setting and crazy performance shouldn't be a compromise. The AMD Radeon HD7900 Series with the new 28 nm GCN Architecture assures that it's not."

PCI Express 3.0

"PCI-Express 3.0 delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU (GPU communication-up to 16GB/sec in each direction), maximizing the performance from your GPU when paired with the latest platforms."

Enhanced Multi-GPU Capabilities

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 6870 FEATURES

"The Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 has a new architecture with a total of 1120 stream processors and 56 texture units delivering massively parallel computing power for graphics and other accelerated applications. Its core clock speed of 900MHz, together with a dedicated high speed interface to 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1050MHz (4.2 Gb/s effective) delivers class leading performance. It boasts a very modest active power consumption and, using Dynamic Power Management, the card has a super low-power idle mode."

Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 Card

VIDEO CARD	GPU	CORE CLOCK	MEMORY CLOCK	MEMORY TYPE	MEMORY INTERFACE	SHADER PROCESSORS	DIRECTX
SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 7850	PITCAIRN	860	4800	2GB GDDR5	256	1024	11.1
SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 6870	BARTS	900	4200	1GB GDDR5	256	1120	11
VIDEO CARD	GPU	CORE CLOCK	MEMORY CLOCK	MEMORY TYPE	MEMORY INTERFACE	SHADER PROCESSORS	DIRECTX