HIS Radeon HD 6850
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HIS Radeon HD 6850 Reviews
HIS HD6850 and HIS HD6850 IceQ X Turbo
HIS has been making ATI and AMD cards for many years now. In fact, it is now almost exactly 7 years since we reviewed our first HIS card, the HIS Excalibur 9600XT Turbo VIVO Edition. As expected, HIS is fully supporting AMD's latest GPUs, and today we are reviewing two HIS cards using the HD6850 GPU: the HIS HD6850 and the HIS HD6850 IceQ X Turbo. The HD6850 is in our opinion one of the more interesting GPU from AMD's HD6xxx series as it offers a very good performace versus price ratio. Not only that, as we will see in this review, the GPU also overclocks extremely well making its value even greater. The HIS HD6850 is a card that uses a modified cooling solution compared to the reference design. Other than that it is clocked at the stock speeds of 775 MHz (GPU) and 4000 MHz (memory) and retails for around $175 (US) / 1500 SKr (Sweden) / 180 (UK) / €150 (Germany). This lets it compete directly against the Nvidia GTX460 1 GB. The HIS HD6850 IceQ X Turbo uses the latest iteration of the special IceQ-cooler that HIS has been using and improving over the years. This cooler offers not only better cooling but is also less noisy. Last but not least this is also the Turbo edition, meaning that HIS has it factory overclocked to 820 MHz (GPU) and 4400 MHz (memory). The card retails for around $200 (US) / 1700 SKR (Sweden) / 180 (UK) / €190 (Germany) making it a bit more expensive than the regular HIS HD6850, and close to the price of an HD6870.
HIS Radeon HD 6850 review
Take any card by either manufacturer and benchmark it next to its direct competitor from the other camp and there's at least one very clear conclusion to draw. Nvidia has the grunt, while AMD has the elegance. But another factor soon becomes apparent. When DX11 is added to the mix, AMD's performance doesn't tail off quite so quickly at the higher resolutions, and it's a point the HD 6850 makes very well indeed. This card represents a bit of an odd mixture. It seems to be built specifically to tackle DX11, and yet it still lacks the raw power to contend with its closest competitor in the price-range, the GTX 460 1GB, in DX10 applications. And of course, in DX11 games it outperforms the card it was designed to replace: AMD's own HD 5850. What's odd is that the HD 5850 hasn't dropped in price as a result. Which, in all honesty, would seem to make it a prime contender for midrange future-proofing. Let's take a look at the benchmarks. As evidenced by its Heaven 2.0 and Metro 2033 scores, the HD 6850 handles tessellation quite nicely compared to other cards in its price-category.
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HIS H685FN1GD Radeon HD 6850 Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.1 (x16), 1x Single-Link DVI-D, 1x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, CrossFireX Ready | $144.99 | See it |
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HIS Radeon HD 6850 1 GB (256 bit) GDDR5 Eyefinity DisplayPort HDMI 2x DVI (HDCP) PCI Express X16 2.1 Video Card - H685FN1GD | $144.99 | See it |
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HIS H685QNT1GD Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.1 x16, HDMI, Dual DVI, DisplayPort, Directx 11, Dual-Slot, Overclocked | $154.99 | See it |
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HIS PCI-Express Video Card (H685F1GD) | $217.44 | See it |
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HIS Radeon HD 6850 : (8/10)
2 expert reviews
0 user reviews
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HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo : (9/10)
2 expert reviews
0 user reviews
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HIS Radeon HD 5870 : (8/10)
1 expert reviews
0 user reviews
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HIS Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo : (7/10)
2 expert reviews
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