The Radeon HD 5850 was one of the most heralded graphics cards released over the past couple of years, and in some ways, it out-performs the newer HD 6850. One example is with the computational power (2.088 TFLOPS vs. 1.488 TFLOPS) and texture fill rates (52.2GT/s vs. 37.2GT/s) - but even so, can releasing a last-gen card more than six months into the new cycle ever make sense?
Compared to the HD 6790 and GTX 550 Ti, which both retail for the same $150 price as the HD 5850 Xtreme, Sapphire's card totally obliterates those in our benchmarks. In 3DMark 11 at 1080p, Sapphire's Xtreme proved 33% faster than the HD 6790, and 61% faster than the GTX 550 Ti. Those are not small differences. Read more...
Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 PCIE Video Card (100315L)Compared to the HD 6790 and GTX 550 Ti, which both retail for the same $150 price as the HD 5850 Xtreme, Sapphire's card totally obliterates those in our benchmarks. In 3DMark 11 at 1080p, Sapphire's Xtreme proved 33% faster than the HD 6790, and 61% faster than the GTX 550 Ti. Those are not small differences. Read more...
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