Manufacturer: AMD Price: $ 349/$249 US Author: Steve Date: 03/04/2012

[ Test System Specs & 3Dmark 11 ]

Test System Specs Hardware - Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz) - x4 4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600(CAS 8-8-8-20) - Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) - AMD Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 (3072MB) - AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2048MB) - AMD Radeon HD 7850 (2048MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6990 (4096MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) - VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 (2048MB) - Asus Radeon HD 6870 (1024MB) - HIS Radeon HD 5870 (1024MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 (3072MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024MB) - Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79) - OCZ ZX Series (1250w) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 295.73 - AMD Catalyst 12.2 + AMD Radeon HD 7800 (8.95.5) The 3Dmark 11 extreme test claims that the Radeon HD 7870 is just 9% slower than the Radeon HD 7950 which is an incredible result. However possibly more amazing than that is the fact that the Radeon HD 7870 is said to be 6% faster than the GeForce GTX 580. The Radeon HD 7850 is also quite snappy delivering 4% more performance than the Radeon HD 6950 and 20% more performance than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. With that in mind let’s move on to see how these new Radeon HD 7800 series graphics cards perform in over a dozen games...

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ProX	Posted on: 03/05/2012 09:23 AM The Radeon HD 7850 looks the goods. Thanks for the review.

ktraft

Posted on: 03/05/2012 09:40 AM This is what I want to see! 7870 here I come

greensmoke

Posted on: 03/05/2012 10:37 AM These are still pretty expensive if you ask me, more expensive than the previous generation anyway.