- Xfx radeon hd 6850 black edition dual fan 1gb code#
- Xfx radeon hd 6850 black edition dual fan 1gb series#
The card’s GPu runs at 820MHz and the memory at 4400MHz (effectively).
Xfx radeon hd 6850 black edition dual fan 1gb code#
We are looking at XFX’s HD 6850 Black Edition card (product code HD-685X-ZNBC). XFX HD 6850 Black Edition card is a custom designed card with custom cooling. HD 6850 Black Edition is currently the fastest factory overclocked HD 6850 and as you’ll see in our overclocking section, Barts packs some nice overclocking potential. The DisplayPorts support Multi-Stream technology, allowing up to 6 monitors to be used via only two DisplayPorts.īelow you see GPUZ screenshot, confirming the clocks on our card (HD-685X-ZNBC) as well as the number of shaders (960). UVD engine is now in UVD 3 version there’s also HDMI 1.4a for 3D Blu-ray as well as two DisplayPort 1.2 outs. HD 6870 and HD 6850 cards are based on Barts core, which compared to the previous generation offers improvements on the field of tessellation, Eyefinity, video decoding and last but not the least – consumption. The fastest Northern Islands’ GPU will be Radeon HD 6970’s Cayman core, whereas dual-GPU Radeon 6990 comes with Antilles core.
Xfx radeon hd 6850 black edition dual fan 1gb series#
It has been decided that HD 5700 series will run shoulder-to-shoulder with HD 6000 series, meaning Barts, Cayman and Antilles based performance and high-end cards. The HD 6850 will set you back $179 in the US and €150 in the EU. As is usual with overclocked cards, XFX's card will be priced 15-20 euro above reference cost.ĪMD introduced some competition to its own HD 5800 as it delivered HD 6800, which offers really nice bang per buck.
MRSP for HD 6870 is $239 in the US and €199 incl VAT in EU. Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 are not high-end cards but rather products made with medium budget in mind, so called Gamers’ sweet spot cards. Note that reference clocks stand at 775MHz for the GPU and 1000MHz (4000MHz effectively) for the memory. So for their HD 6850 Black Edition, XFX decided on 820MHz for the GPU and 1100MHz for the memory (4400MHz effectively). Today we have the honor of reviewing one of the highest factory overclocked HD 6850 cards. On October 22nd, AMD launched two new graphics cards from its Northern Islands family – Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6870.