I´ve got to admit i´m surprised with those cards because they offer excellent performance!!! I wasn´t expecting this performance jump from the cards that are meant to replace the 57xx series!!! I can only imagine the new 69xx series... I was thinking about buying a 460 1g but it appears my next card is going to one of those two unless the 460 drops to 150€. Great review as always!!! Edit: suddenly the Gigabyte gtx 470 Super Overclocked dropped it´s price from 370€ to 270€!!! Should i consider this card instead of the 6870?
not really... you can buy the 6870 for £176 now... cheapest 5850 now is around £195. it was a fair bit more when it launched as well.
haha tat3 :thumbup: i hope you will continue this with when nvidia releases their card btw you got some paint skills there
But £176 isn't the RRP though. Lol, Tat3, but anyone thinking a sub £200 card would beat a near £300 would deserve that anyway.
Comparing the 6870/6850 to a ref gtx 460 is a bit silly since the factory oc'ed ones are the actual price target and also run cooler Temps seem to vary a lot though http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph3987/33250.png odd
Will the 6950 be £200, nope, course it won't. I guess this new naming scheme can fool even the people on here, well played AMD.
Good performance/price ratio but still i wanted more (they need a test vs the upcoming 580 and not the old 470 or 460 , new generation new battle)
mines on its way , 6870 for £176 , super smashing great ! should be here in the morning , au revoir nvidia:banana:
What are you talking about? The 6950 will be the direct replacement for the 5850, end of story. Release prices, and even regular prices, have 0 to do with it. If what you say were the case, then the only replacement for an 8800 Ultra would be a limited edition 5970, if we're speaking on strictly "for-price" comparisons, which is silly. Different markets, circumstances, release dates, even websites will change the pricing. You're the one with the confusion. I assume you think prices are supposed to stay static while new cards are simply inserted into the slot they fit in, which is of course, absolutely not how it works at all.
The new AA is interesting: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850-barts,2776-4.html
hmm "It’s important to note that because morphological AA is a post-process effect, the resulting output can’t be captured with a regular screen capture utility like FRAPS. "
