In our testing we saw nice results that make this card a worthy alternative in todays highend graphics card market. Meantime, those of you that are impatient to measure your system performance in crysis dx11 and dx9 too, here is a short guide how to do it using a builtingame benchmark. These cards sport 900mhz gpu clocks, with 2gb of gddr5 memory running at 1050mhz 4. Amds new radeon hd 6870 and 6850 cards debut slashdot. His 6870 iceq x turbo x 1gb gddr5 pcie hdmi2xdvi2xmini. I returned the card to your techinicians at my expense and they supposedly stress tested it using 3d benchmark and the exact 6. On the passmark benchmarking tool, the intel hd 620 graphics scores 944 points. The amd radeon hd 6870 ushers in a new era of gaming that takes users to an entirely new level. The 6770 being more expensive than the 5770, the 6870 being more expensive than the 5850 ect. The radeon hd 6870 and radeon hd 6850 are new midrange cards that offer similar performance to previous generation highend. Keeping an eye on 2560 and 1920, not only does the 6970 start things off with a slight lead over. The sapphire hd 6870 is packaged in a sleek box that uses a black and blue color scheme and lists all the main features on the front. Benchmark crysis warhead showed that the speed of radeon hd 6870 grew by 2636% in comparison with radeon hd 5870 for extreme profile. The relevance of the extreme tessellation benchmark has been heavily questioned as well.
Do note, however, that the previous results were on heaven 2. Focusing on 1920x1200, we have a 3way race between the gtx 470, evga gtx 460, and the 6870. Unigine is a tessellation heavy benchmark and will be a good gauge of how effective the new tessellation unit in the radeon hd 6870 and hd 6850 is. Amazingly, the hd 6870 scores a whopping 922, which is a massive increase over the hd 5870 and puts it on par with the gtx 480. Your best bet would be to look up benchmarks of crysis 3. Crysis 2 graphics card list meets system requirements for crysis 2. The radeon hd 6870 was coupled with the overclocked to 4. Moving on to crysis warhead, we get a taste of the radeon hd 6800 series performance on real world gaming applications. Mojokid writes amd has officially launched their new radeon hd 6800 series of graphics cards and the company has managed to drive cost and power consumption out of the product, while increasing performance efficiencies in the architecture. Crysis 2 benchmarks and performance analysis how demanding crysis.
Compared to laptop graphics card, the amd radeon hd 6990m uses the. Unlike the first game, crysis 2 doesnt have any graphical sliders or checkboxes to enable. Bad company 2, cs, dod 2, hl2, bioshock, left 4 dead, crysis, dirt 2 ect and never hand any significant lags. Currently on ccl, the only 6870s are the xfx 6870s which come in at 123. The amd radeon hd 8790m sometimes known as the ati mobility radeon hd 8790 is a directx 11.
Running on directx 11 and with tessellation enabled, the new radeon hd 6870 was easily able to outclass the 1gb geforce gtx 460 and by a good 5% to 10% too. Amd radeon hd 6870 benchmarks tests guru of hightech. An nvidia twimtbp title, crysis 2 delivers higher performance with geforce cards. Radeon hd 6870 directcu 1gb edition fps ratings what frames per second radeon hd 6870 directcu 1gb edition graphics card for pc gaming system requirements. Radeon hd 6870 frames per second gpu radeon hd 6870 pc fps. In this video we are putting in test an old radeon hd 6870 1gb gddr5 graphics card that we bought for. Radeon hd 6870 fps ratings what frames per second radeon hd 6870 graphics card for pc gaming system requirements. Based on 223,502 user benchmarks for the amd hd 7870 and the nvidia gtx 750ti, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 636 gpus. Dirt 2 appears to put the new radeon hd 6800 series tessellation enhancements to good use, allowing them to pass their predecessors and geforce competition alike. Crysis 2 is a lot easier to run than its predecessor. Ghost warrior 2 use the dx9dx11 version of cryengine 3.
Crysis 3 is the only game to use the updated version of cryengine 3 which doesnt support dx9 and has some extra features. Crysis 3, crossfire hd 79707950 performance hardforum. This benchmark scores clearly show that there is a huge improvement over the previous generations of intel hd graphics. Radeon hd 6870 directcu 1gb edition frames per second gpu. Amd radeon hd 6870 crossfire with 5x1 eyefinity hothardware. Powercolors exclusive hd 6870 x2 unifies two hd 6870 graphics processors on a single card.
Crysis 2 benchmarks and performance analysis how demanding crysis 2 is on pc hardware. Specifications and benchmarks of the amd radeon hd 6870 graphics card for notebooks. Ok, hey, i did that but it keeps looping, how do i make it only do it like 1 or 2 times. The amd radeon hd 6870 is 3d ready and one of the first hdmi 1. Other games like crysis 2, mechwarrior online, and sniper. Where can i get the crysis benchmark tool for windows 7. His claims their 6870 iceq x turbo x is the worlds fastest radeon hd 6870 and based on our findings here, we think they are right. Many games come with their own fps counter or have a benchmark application to. Today marks an overhaul with amd launching two new graphics cards designed to. But guys, this hd 6870 is just an overview of the brand new radeon hd 6000. The 6870 comes out ahead, with the evga and then the gtx 470 bringing up the pack at under a frame behind. Radeon hd 7970 and hd 7950 in crossfire i know its not the norm, but priceperformance didnt make sense to me for a second 7970 whql driver. With an effective spu count of 1008, the amd radeon hd 6870 crossfire processes shading and special graphical effects with no trouble at all.
When testing with crysis warhead at 1920x1200 we found that the his radeon hd 6870 iceq x turbo x was able to averaged 45fps. We take that radeon hd 6870 x2 again a good mix of midrange versus crossfire and pop it into several pcs. It is based on the mars chip 28nm gcn architecture. Similar to the heaven benchmark test, when pushing graphical quality to a higher level, setting up eight sample antialiasing modes 8xaa, 16x anaerobic filtering 16xaf the graphics processing power of the amd radeon hd 7750 game significantly reduced. Hd 6870 3dmark 06 standard default settings 19963 1920x1080 4x aa 17737 3dmark vantage physx off gtx 460 high 178 hd 6870 high 11188 one very important thing to check for is the cpu nb vid. Still, 9501200mhz is a huge step up from the 775mhz default clocks on the 6850, enough to put the overclocked 6850 ahead of a stock radeon hd 6870 in terms of theoretical rop rate and memory. Tdp, idle power consumption, load power consumption and 2 more. To run the game fluidly with high details at a modest resolution 1024x768 pixels or less, the user will need a middleclass gpu.
Indeed, even the radeon hd 6870 and geforce gtx 460 1 gb can. Amd 6870 benchmarks battlefield 3, crysis 2, gta, and. This approach offers performance that can compete with other highend cards like gtx 580. This is the new list of all currently available graphics cards that are directx 12 and directx 11 capable, along with links to product details for each, courtesy of amazon revision 20 of this list is current as of november 2015. A first try of recording crysis 2 with ultra settings and directx 11. The driver support for the amd radeon hd 6870 crossfire is now fairly poor, so dont count on any new game optimizations. Amd 6870 benchmarks battlefield 3, crysis 2, gta, and more. Here the geforce gtx 560 ti along with the gtx 285 and radeon hd 6870 were the only graphics cards to. Current version of adrenaline crysis 2 benchmark tool does not support latest crysis 2 updates, however, a newer version of this tool should see the light very soon. List of graphics cards that can play crysis 2 and meet the minimum gpu system requirement for crysis 2.
Crysis 2 always looks good regardless of what settings we pick. Hd 6870 reaches a gpu temperature ranging 81c to 85c crysis. Amd radeon hd 6870 crossfire best compatible radeon hd. You may also encounter more and more graphical oddities as newer games are released. Crysis 2 directx 11 gameplay amd fx6100 radeon hd 6870.