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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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Mafia II and Civilization V

Mafia II

Mafia II hit the shelves recently and has proved to be a hit. We use the internal benchmark and dial-in antialiasing and high-quality settings.

The same GeForce GTX 460 1GB sandwich makes the Radeon HD 6850 cards the meat here. AMD needs to remove the 820MHz/4,400MHz restriction and let partners really push the Barts core.

Civilization V

A brand-new addition to the suite, the fifth installment of one of the world's most popular games can be surprisingly hard on high-end hardware.

Civilization V is massively limited by the geometry needs of the benchmark. This is why the Fermi-derived GeForce cards do better here. Indeed, the comparison Gigabyte card goes all the way to the top.