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Review: AMD Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850 graphics cards

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 March 2012, 05:00 4.0

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Benchmarks - Just Cause 2

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Homepage: justcause.com | Publisher: Eidos Interactive | Developer: Avalanche Studios

Just Cause 2 is one of the older titles in our suite and uses DX10 visuals. It's no longer cutting edge, but it's still a lot of fun and can be used to cross-reference older reviews.

The one benchmark in our suite that isn't taxing for cutting-edge cards. The HD 7800-series does well against the Cayman HD 6970/50 cards here, with the HD 7850 almost beating AMD's last-gen single-GPU champ. The more pertinent comparison is against NVIDIA cards. We see the familiar pattern replicated here; HD 7870 sits between the two high-end GeForces, and HD 7850 is the meat in the 560 Ti panini.