Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 Overclock

Gigabyte HD 7850 Overclock review

The sub-200 graphics market is where the bulk of most PC gamers' cards come from. And the new Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 OC just manages to sneak in under that all-important price. Since the original AMD Radeon HD 7850 landed in March, we've seen it as an ideal card to drop into a very capable mid-range gaming machine. If you're rocking a 1080p display, this card will happily dish up the frame rates to keep things silky smooth. It was also a very good overclocking GPU, and even with smaller, redesigned PCBs like the one supporting this Gigabyte chip, it has the chops to push the speeds up higher. Buying Guide15 best graphics cards in the worldThis card is even smaller than the diminutive Nvidia GTX 560 Ti, which is still an excellent mid-range beastie. The HD 7850 is no power hog either, thanks to the single 6-pin PCIe power connector drawing the juice directly from your power supply. At a core clock of 975MHz, the Gigabyte HD 7850 represents a decent 115MHz boost for the extra 20 you're paying out over the vanilla card. That said though, you'd have hoped it would have pushed the card right up to the 1GHz mark. That was probably a marketing decision rather than a technical limitation though.