Some Radeon 6850 "press samples" shipped with too many shaders enabled

@ 2010/10/23
One major issue with the sample I received was that it came with 1120 shaders enabled. The HD 6850 specification requires 960 shaders. Unfortunately neither HIS, nor AMD could provide help with getting the board fixed so I had to reconfigure the shaders on my own. This review shows the correct performance numbers you should expect from a 960 shader HD 6850. If you see other HD 6850 reviews on the web that show surprisingly high performance, please ask the reviewer to check fillrate or using GPU-Z. I know of one other site who received a Sapphire HD 6850 with 1120 shaders enabled, so the problem might be more widespread.

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- techPowerUp! -> http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/
- ComputerBase.de -> http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/g...6850-update-2/
- diit.cz -> http://www.diit.cz/clanek/test-radeo...ry/37205/35011
- Extra Hardware -> http://extrahardware.cnews.cz/test-r...otreba-teploty
- Benchmark Reviews -> http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...88&It emid=47
- Guru3D -> http://www.guru3d.com/news/radeon-68...ith-6870-bios/
- Hardware Heaven -> http://www.hardwareheaven.com/review...deon-6850.html
- Tweak Town -> http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/360...rd/index2.html
- Inside HW -> http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Grap...ds/Page-4.html
- Think Computers -> http://www.thinkcomputers.org/sapphi...card-review/3/
- HT4U -> http://ht4u.net/reviews/2010/amd_rad..._hd_6870_test/
- Rage3D -> http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/...view_addendum/

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