Official AMD Radeon 6870 and 6850 Benchmarks Released

@ 2010/10/22
We wrap up the official launch of the new Radeon video cards, next generation GPU, successor of a midrange GPU, while matching performance of the previous high-end, and this at a ~$200 price tag!

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Wrapping things up, we believe this will probably go down as being the most competitive card launch of the year. AMD and NVIDIA reposition themselves against each other with every launch, but by first launching the Radeon HD 6000 series against NVIDIA’s mid-to-high range GTX 460, AMD has gone head-first in to one of NVIDIA’s most prized markets, and NVIDIA is pushing right back. If you would have told us 3 months ago that we would have been able to get GTX 460 1GB performance for $180 only a couple months later, we likely would have called you mad, and yet here we are. The competitive market is alive and then some.

Ultimately this probably won’t go down in history as one of AMD’s strongest launches – there’s only so much you can do without a die shrink – but it’s still a welcome addition to the Radeon family. With a new generation of Radeon cards taking their foothold, we now can turn our eyes towards the future, and to see what AMD will be bringing us with the Radeon HD 6900 series and the Cayman GPU.

~Anandtech
More reading:
http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/...eo-card-review
http://www.pureoverclock.com/article1107.html
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/sapphi...o-card-review/
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...27&Item id=72
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...eon_6870_6850/
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...27&Item id=72
http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/...eo-card-review
http://www.vortez.co.uk/review.php?id=234
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g...usive_review/1
http://lanoc.org/review/hardware/vid...imedia-hd-6870
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g..._6870_review/1
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...6850_CrossFire
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...6870_CrossFire
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/360...ard/index.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...6850_Direct_Cu
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1944
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6870
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1942
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1941
http://mailbot.tweaktown.com/cgi-bin...rd/index.html/
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...50-review.html
http://techgage.com/article/amd_radeon_hd_6870_hd_6850/
http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Grap...-Diamonds.html
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=1
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1445/1/
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-R...-Debut/?page=1
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...o_card_review/

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